GLWS™ gives you deeper insights into workplace wellbeing and performance than ever before
Wellbeing has finally come of age. It has become an accepted and known as a crucial factor in determining any leader’s performance. At GLWS in 2020, we promote ‘Enabling Wellbeing’ as a leadership capability; as something to be learned, lived, led and embedded into every organisation.
Historically, wellbeing surveys and corporate wellness tools largely failed to reflect the myriad cultural contexts and nuances that affect wellbeing, such as how a leader’s personal wellbeing affects his/her workplace performance and vice versa. Measures were either too narrow, too global, too academic or too medicalised to be useful or credible in an organisational setting. The uptake of wellness offerings by senior leaders was notoriously low.
The spark for GLWS came from our desire to create tools that would be more comprehensive, sophisticated and ‘real world’ that captured the full scope of wellbeing.
Meet the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS) – the new gold standard for measuring leaders’ wellbeing.
Prior to launching GLWS, EEK & SENSE embarked on a rigorous 3-year initial research and development project to create a robust tool designed to expedite insights into and conversations about a range of challenges that impact leaders’ performance, change readiness and ability to achieve full potential.
Wellbeing has finally come of age. It has become an accepted and known as a crucial factor in determining any leader’s performance. At GLWS in 2020, we promote ‘Enabling Wellbeing’ as a leadership capability; as something to be learned, lived, led and embedded into every organisation.
Historically, wellbeing surveys and corporate wellness tools largely failed to reflect the myriad cultural contexts and nuances that affect wellbeing, such as how a leader’s personal wellbeing affects his/her workplace performance and vice versa. Measures were either too narrow, too global, too academic or too medicalised to be useful or credible in an organisational setting. The uptake of wellness offerings by senior leaders was notoriously low.
The spark for GLWS came from our desire to create tools that would be more comprehensive, sophisticated and ‘real world’ that captured the full scope of wellbeing.
Meet the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS) – the new gold standard for measuring leaders’ wellbeing.
Prior to launching GLWS, EEK & SENSE embarked on a rigorous 3-year initial research and development project to create a robust tool designed to expedite insights into and conversations about a range of challenges that impact leaders’ performance, change readiness and ability to achieve full potential.
The essential wellbeing solutions for leaders. Add GLWS™ to your corporate wellness toolkit.
The GLWS survey and reports accurately identify and understand the positive and negative drivers of leaders’ wellbeing, and that of their teams. It delves deeper than other wellbeing surveys, taking into account the physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual components of wellbeing, contextualised to the lived life of leaders.
It offers a uniquely holistic approach to understanding what shapes a leader’s ability to perform and stay at their best, as well as practical steps to target wellbeing priorities, reinforced with additional resources and professional support.
It highlights factors that enhance and detract from wellbeing, delivering deep insights and actionable steps on how to ameliorate often debilitating executive pressures. It promotes healthier, more inclusive, connected and supportive work environments.
The GLWS Personal, Team and Group reporting system can be used as an educational and developmental source of feedback for leaders. It provides the foundation for tailored interventions and can inform changes to team and individual leadership behaviours and the development of organisational leadership, health and wellbeing and diversity and inclusion policies and management practices.
Since its inception, the flagship GLWS survey has evolved into a full suite of solutions with a range of options to help power individuals, teams and organisations to thrive by enabling leaders to: ‘Learn, Live, Lead & Embed’ better wellbeing for all.
The GLWS survey and reports accurately identify and understand the positive and negative drivers of leaders’ wellbeing, and that of their teams. It delves deeper than other wellbeing surveys, taking into account the physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual components of wellbeing, contextualised to the lived life of leaders.
It offers a uniquely holistic approach to understanding what shapes a leader’s ability to perform and stay at their best, as well as practical steps to target wellbeing priorities, reinforced with additional resources and professional support.
It highlights factors that enhance and detract from wellbeing, delivering deep insights and actionable steps on how to ameliorate often debilitating executive pressures. It promotes healthier, more inclusive, connected and supportive work environments.
The GLWS Personal, Team and Group reporting system can be used as an educational and developmental source of feedback for leaders. It provides the foundation for tailored interventions and can inform changes to team and individual leadership behaviours and the development of organisational leadership, health and wellbeing and diversity and inclusion policies and management practices.
Since its inception, the flagship GLWS survey has evolved into a full suite of solutions with a range of options to help power individuals, teams and organisations to thrive by enabling leaders to: ‘Learn, Live, Lead & Embed’ better wellbeing for all.
Comprehensive insights drawn from robust academic research
GLWS provides a comprehensive framework to explain how leaders can perform and stay at their best – while working onsite or remotely from home without sacrificing their personal lives or health. This is how we combined our first-hand business psychology experience and evidence-based research to develop GLWS:
In depth research and study of wellbeing and existing measurement tools.
2013
150 item tool and initial framework is developed.
10 subject matter experts (comprising clinical and organisational psychologists, psychiatry and psychotherapy experts, human resources, leadership development professionals and executive coaches specialising in wellbeing) provide expert review.
Online delivery platform v1 is developed.
General design is refined and expanded using expert feedback, survey items and a rating scale.
2014
Trialling begins with 100+executives; comprehensive statistical analysis of results is undertaken.
Items are further refined and reduced to 125, framework and reports are enhanced.
Pilot project undertaken within a large government enterprise and one of Australia’s most trusted brands, Australia Post
2015 – 2016
GLWS introduced to the market (as MEWS)
Secure hosting on Qualtrics, ensuring leading data security and data protection.
First accreditation sessions held.
Quantitative and qualitative review undertaken on first 250 respondents.
GLWS goes global with 121 domain items, 5 overall SWB items and an updated framework.
E-learning accreditation program and online resource centre developed.
Research findings presented at key conferences worldwide.
2017 – 2019
Accredited Community expands to 350+ globally, including UK, USA, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Eire and Australia.
Project 1000 – research into the factors driving wellbeing.
Research undertaken on impact of GLWS on performance and engagement.
Custom built platform for GLWS developed to provide ultimate flexibility for GLWS clients and accredited users.
GLWS Accredited Community support via MyGLWS and increased professional development events.
Presentations and keynotes at various industry and client conferences, as well as to professional bodies including the APS, BPS and ICF, Psychology conference on the link between wellbeing and personality.
Rebrand to GLWS in response to feedback across global markets and to add a stronger emphasis on leadership.
Online delivery platform V2 upgrade released with enhanced GLWS Personal, Team and Group Reports, and enhanced data security and client processes.
Strategic partnerships established in key sectors.
Distribution partners established for Hong Kong and Singapore
Recognition as provider of exceptional content and insights
Bi-weekly wellbeing insights
2020 +
The GLWS Survey + GLWS Personal, Team and Group Reports become established as flagship products and the gold standard for leader and professional wellbeing assessment and development.
MyGLWS expands
Updated and expanded GLWS Level 1 e-learning accreditation
Advanced GLWS Level 2 e-learning accreditation to be launched
The ‘GLWS Reach Wellbeing Series’ is launched to support wellbeing learning and development aligned to the GLWS Framework
GLWS e-commerce expands with a broader range of solutions and cost-effective rollout capabilities for whole-of-organisation options.