In S 4 E 9 I am delighted to introduce John McMahon Director of Client Experience and a product specialist for the Well-Being Index. John has personally worked with over one hundred organisations to launch the tool to hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals. He has applied expertise in helping organisations practically use and apply wellbeing data and resources to guide evidence-based initiatives and implement programmes.
This episode is the first in a series of episodes resulting from the recent Organisational Response to Workforce Wellbeing summit facilitated by Beamtree and Health Round Tablein Sydney. Fiona Fitzgerald Workforce Wellbeing Knowledge Network lead was the key driving force behind this summit and I am looking forward to sharing her insights in part 2 of this conversation. Beamtree and Health Round Table brought Professor Tait Shanafelt, chief wellness officer at Stanford WellMD and a frequently referenced expert on this podcast, and John McMahon over from the United States for this event.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with John the day after the summit to tap into his wealth of applied knowledge. As you will see his breadth and depth of expertise and experience in this area is truly unique.
We discuss the role of the well-being index as one of the recognised validated tools for collection individual and organisational wellbeing data. John emphasises the important evidence for work-level interventions and how organisation can practically leverage data for evidence-based change. He provides real world examples of success and we explore the myths and challenges organisations face in appropriately using data to implement successful wellbeing programmes.
John's knowledge, perspective and applied expertise in this area seriously impressed me. I anticipate the need for a subsequent episode. In the meantime you can find all of the relevant links and resources we discuss listed below.
"Workforce distress = Unsafe healthcare" Tim Kelsey Beamtree CEO, #ORW23
Links / references/resources:
Wellbeing-Index and John McMahon
https://www.mywellbeingindex.org/resources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjmcmahon/
Beamtree and Fiona Fitzgerald
https://beamtree.com.au/our-solutions/workforce-wellbeing/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-fitzgerald-5063b653/
fiona.fitzgerald@beamtree.com.au
Beamtree Wellbeing Advisory group discussion paper
https://beamtree.com.au/papers-publications/recommendations-to-sustain-our-humans-in-healthcare/
Other useful resources:
https://ceih.sa.gov.au/assets/library/CEIH-Fact-Sheet-Wellbeing-Measurement_Public.pdf
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