Preparing to make positive changes within your organization is an important first step on your journey. Before moving ahead, take the time to talk to management and employees. Learn about what’s working well and get a better understanding of what could be improved with respect to the physical and social environments in your organization. With this information, you can start to build on your current strengths and prepare for how your new workplace wellness approach will impact your employees and your organization.

The following key actions are recommended for this step and, where applicable, are described in more detail in the other steps on the Roadmap:

• Determine your organization’s readiness for the changes you are planning. Knowing where you are starting from on your journey can help you plan for how you will get to where you want to be in the future
• Identify and plan the steps you’ll need to take to involve your people from the beginning and to help your organization on the journey toward your new approach to workplace wellness
• Identify who your workplace wellness stakeholders are and how they can positively contribute to the changes you are making and your workplace wellness plans
• Initiate change management strategies that engage your stakeholders in helping you to implement a comprehensive approach and anchor wellness as an integral part of your organizational culture

Find more information, tools and resources to help you below:

• Workplace Wellness – A Roadmap for your Journey – Presentation slides
  Created by the Workplace Wellness Movement

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• Making the Healthy Workplace Business Case and Leading Change – Presentation Slides  
• Mapping a healthy change trajectory – HR Reporter Article
• Healthy Workplace Strategies: Creating Change and Achieving Results
  Published by Creating Healthy Organizations and the Graham Lowe Group
  

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• Helping Employees Manage Change – web section 
  By the Workplace Strategies for Mental Health initiative

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• Change management – Workbook
  By Health Quality Ontario

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• Enabling organizational change through strategic initiatives – Report
• Focusing Change Management Where it Counts – White paper
  By the Project Management Institute

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• Top 14 key change management elements
• Change Management pitfalls to avoid – Infographic
  By Torben Rick

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• A change management checklist for leading organizational change  
• Change Management Toolkit
  By MindTools

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• Organizational Change Management Readiness Guide
  By the Government of California, USA

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• Healthy Workplace – Template includes information on change agents for a healthy workplace
  By the University of Alberta

 

Workplace Wellness Case Study by the Conference Board of Canada

• Wellness Metrics in Action – Telus: A Culture of Health and Wellness