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For Leaders

Supporting staff individually

To lead a healthy workplace, it is important to ensure that your staff members are motivated, feel safe, are encouraged to keep learning; have a focus on health and wellbeing. To better understand what wellbeing resources are available for staff, check out the Supporting Colleagues page and Mind Pillar.

It is good for staff to be clear on their role and its scope, have a reasonable workload and autonomy, and have the job be a good fit for their skills. To assist you to ensure the structure of a role and responsibilities for staff, support them and ensure individual alignment to job fit, you can consider the following checklist in the drop-down menu below.

- Does your staff member have clear goals and do they understand what is required to be successful in their role?
- Does your staff member have the right skills and interest in the role?
- Does your team/staff member have access to the relevant training to support them in their role?
- Does your staff member have a safe workload that can be completed in the required timelines?
- Does your staff member have the autonomy to influence how they deliver their work?
- Have healthy work principles been considered when designing the role?
- Do you use the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion to design the role, service and/or team?
- Do you have clearly defined career pathways for staff to follow?
- Do your team members have ample opportunities to connect and do not work in isolation?
- Have you asked your staff member how they are and if there is anything you can support or assist them with?
- Are you aware of any work environment adjustments required for your staff member?

Managing team relationships

Having professional, collegial, and open relationships with their team leader, colleagues and broader team is extremely important for a staff members work health. Included in the drop-down menu below is a checklist you can read over to ensure you are fostering healthy work relationships.

- Are staff provided with regular and timely feedback? Is regular two way feedback provided?
- Are staff regularly recognised for their work?
- Are you available to your staff members?
- How are you measuring staff engagement and connections?
- Does your staff member comfortably raise concerns and challenge ideas in the workplace?
- Do you and your staff demonstrate inclusion when engaging with colleagues?
- Do you champion and promote health and wellbeing within your team?

Enabling a supportive workplace

It is crucial for the work health of your staff members that the work environment is safe, inclusive, diverse, flexible and enabling. If you are unsure whether you are fostering a healthy workplace culture for you staff, we have included a checklist to help you assess this in the drop-down menu below.

- Is the equipment safe, ergonomic and comply with relevant standards?
- Have you connected your employees to the right training, support services or expert staff to recommend support to ensure their work environment is safe and they ae supported to thrive in the workplace?
- Do your team members have ample opportunities to connect with colleagues?
- Are your staff aware of their role in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment?
- Is change managed in accordance with sound change management principles?
- Do you role model good health and wellbeing behaviours including work-life balance?

Being aware of University initiatives and values

Leading a healthy workplace requires alignment with and connecting to Monash's purpose, values and goals and ensuring ethics are embedded in to your every day actions.

In the drop-down menu below, we have provided a checklist to help you assess how you can best connect with the University and stay up-to-date with its health and wellbeing initiatives for staff.

- Is your team aware of Impact 2030 and the Monash values?
- Is your team aware of how Monash measures health and wellbeing?
- Is your team aware of the Monash University Health and Wellbeing strategy?
- Do you understand how you and your team contribute to Monash University achieving its vision and goals?

For Leaders

Understanding healthy work

Supporting staff individually

Managing team relationships

Enabling a supportive workplace

Being aware of University initiatives and values