Conducting a Maturity Assessment
Having the right health and wellbeing provisions in place can reduce absence, help you attract and retain the best talent, and improve performance.
Knowing how best to protect, promote and support the employee mental health and wellbeing of your workforce is complex, particularly if compliance and benchmarking is one of your goals. Knowing where to invest time and money is challenging.
Affinity's Maturity Assessment will:
- provide an in-depth mapping of your current activities against established mental health and wellbeing priorities
- identify your current strengths and development areas in provision to manage and support employee mental health and wellbeing
- make recommendations to strengthen provision drawing on research evidence, practitioner experience of what is known to work in other organisations, organisational data and employee consultation
- help you optimise resources and deliver return on investment on your wellbeing spend
- enable you to take a staged approach, prioritise action and develop an integrated plan to improve employee health and wellbeing.
How it works:
We combine a broad range of data collection activities to ensure we draw on the best available evidence:
Stage 1: Review of policies, documentation and organisational data
Stage 2: Interviews with key stakeholders
Stage 3: Focus groups with employees with representation from across the organisation
Stage 4: Gap analysis and mapping against frameworks
Stage 5: Developing recommendations and reporting
Stage 6: Action planning
The scale of data gathering and timeframes vary dependent on client need and budget. Typically, Working Well Maturity Assessments take between 3-4 months from contracting to reporting.
The Maturity Assessment is underpinned by our evidence-based meta-framework – Affinity's Maturity Framework:
The framework moves from Stage 1, the baseline of no dedicated wellbeing provision or approach, through to Stage 4, or maturity, where an organisation shows a fully embedded commitment to wellbeing. The earlier stages are the 'building blocks' for wellbeing provision. To progress, these must be in place.
You receive a comprehensive report and presentation complete with in-depth insights and recommendations based on the latest evidence and practice. You will also receive a quick-view summary of your maturity status to guide action for example:
The Affinity health and wellbeing maturity framework appealed due to its holistic approach to wellbeing, and aligning our current mental health and wellbeing strategy with the framework was very straightforward. Through this process, we were able to recognise our strengths and more importantly, identify the steps required to enhance our approach to employee wellbeing.
Find out more about how the Maturity Assessment was developed through a collaborative, multi-staged approach with our Research Consortium.
See our Case Study with Swoop for an example of our Maturity Assessment in practice.
Contact us at hello@affinityhealthatwork.com for more information and to discuss conducting a Maturity Assessment in your organisation.
