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Authors: Cass Spong, Sally Clarke, Katie O’Keeffe
Shifting the focus: from hazard reduction and compliance to creating the condition for thriving.
Victoria’s new psychosocial safety laws have changed the landscape and present an opportunity that is far greater than just compliance – to embrace a systems challenge that demands a deeper understanding of the conditions that lead to thriving teams and organisations, so that we can reduce risk and unlock performance at the same time.
Source: Taylor & Francis, peer-reviewed journals and articles
Despite the rapid growth and uptake of the positive psychological perspective by researchers and general audiences, hype regarding the field’s potential can lead to exaggerated claims, over-inflated expectations, disillusionment, dismissal, and unintentional harms.
Following our first article Wellbeing-taking a new perspective, we now dive deeper into Systems of Wellbeing; how we define them, some critical components required for the experience of wellbeing to emerge, and some steps you can take to move your team and organisation towards optimising your individual and collective potential.
Wellbeing is a hot topic. It gained momentum during the pandemic and is now front and centre as we navigate into a new future of work. There are over 99 measures of workplace well-being and the academics have yet to agree on what it is and how to measure it. For individuals, organisations and communities to thrive, let’s move beyond tokenistic notions of wellbeing and nurture the critical relationships and systems that support us. Wellbeing is a collective challenge that requires collective solutions.