The week dedicated to Quality of Life and Working Conditions is approaching, and you still don't know how to implement it in your company? And yet, with an effective action plan, it can bring a great deal to both your employees and the company!
So we're giving you the steps you need to take to set up an effective approach to QVCT week.
Let's start with the basics: what does this week's event really consist of?
Created by ARACT (Agence nationale pour l'amélioration des conditions de travail), the aim is to invite organizations, once a year, to take real ownership of workplace health issues.
QWL, which has become QWC in recent years, is about providing employees with a better working environment.
For one week, companies are invited to take initiatives and implement concrete actions to improve the quality of life and working conditions of their teams.
Taking the well-being of your teams seriously, even if it has no financial benefit, should already be reason enough to act.
Guaranteeing a good working environment for all our employees means ensuring that they can work under the best possible conditions, carry out their missions successfully, and maintain good mental, physical and relational health.
Over and above the very important human impact, taking care of employees' working conditions is also highly beneficial for the company! Improving managerial practices, reviewing internal communication or teamwork processes is obviously beneficial to the company's overall performance.
QWL Week is therefore an opportunity to rethink what could be improved, so that our employees are healthier, in better conditions, and feel good enough about their company to contribute fully to it.
For more concrete results, improving employees' QWL brings, among other things, lower absenteeism, better motivation, lower staff turnover, optimized productivity...
And that's just for internal use. But externally too, your initiatives can shine through, enabling you to attract new talent while facilitating your recruitment practices.
Before throwing yourself into catalogs of massage and spa treatments, prepare this week properly, to make sure you see the real benefits.
Unless your employees have a lot of strings to their bow, you'll probably have to call in outside help to put on some entertainment. This will require a certain amount of budget, so you might as well put it in the right place!
That's why we advise you to think in advance about the objectives you want to achieve with this QWL week. If you want to improve managerial practices, then implement actions in line with this need.
Likewise, if you feel your employees have been under a lot of stress lately, it might be a good idea to organize a stress management workshop.
You can therefore take stock of the initial situation, ask your employees about their needs and expectations, and correlate this with the company's objectives.
QWL week is primarily aimed at your employees, since it's designed to improve their working conditions. Why not ask them directly: what could be improved?
We've set up a "Wellness Objective" workshop based on the Rose - Thorn - Bud methodology. In small teams, with volunteer employees, identify the roses (what's going well), the thorns (what could be improved), and the buds (what can be put in place).
This will give you a great starting point for organizing a meaningful and impactful QWL week. Find out more about this workshop here, to set it up quickly before QWL week!
You're probably wondering what concrete actions would be interesting to organize this week in your company. As we said earlier, whether you really want to see a return on your investment depends on your own situation and needs.
Whatever the case, we obviously recommend that you implement sustainable actions, which will have effects lasting longer than a few days.
What do we mean by sustainable actions? Actions that will provide your employees with useful resources, which they can reuse in other circumstances after this QVCT week.
For example, you can organize breakfasts, if this allows them to take stock of the essential foods for a balanced breakfast, to be reproduced at home!
You can organize yoga sessions, such as our "Chair Yoga" workshop, to be done especially in the office, so that everyone leaves with good practices to reproduce whenever they feel the need.
So we've designed turnkey programs to suit your budget, including a variety of sustainable actions!
Download our 3 programs to find out which one is right for you, and plan an impactful QWL week with Moha today.
