School workforce wellbeing.
Track it.
Take Action.
PeopleBench gives your school the power to track and take action on workforce resilience.
- R@W SCALE
Academic rigour.
The PeopleBench resilience survey is based on the Resilience@Work scale (McEwen 2011): a psychometric scale that is rigorous, yet practical and easy to use. This scale is backed by a growing base of data from a range of industries from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and beyond and allows you to compare your workforce resilience to ‘the average working person’.
- Survey
Real-world application.
The PeopleBench platform has been built for schools with the input of schools. The resilience survey is short and anonymous and can be completed on mobile or desktop. The dashboard gives school leaders insights into workforce resilience trends and compares groups within the school so you can see which groups are doing well to focus their action and investment.
- Measure
Action focused.
Measuring school workforce resilience comes with responsibility to your most valuable resource—your staff. Once your school is capturing and tracking resilience on the PeopleBench platform, the Resilience Dashboard provides insights and resources you need to make a plan to maintain your strengths and boost the areas that you need to develop.
What our clients say.
If the staff are happy and engaged, the kids will be happy and engaged as well.
The opportunity to use a platform to gather data and then to be part of a process where we not only analyse the data, but we enact some change in response to that, is something that as a college we’re really used to doing and we’ve seen the benefits of.
The [Resilience Tracker] is amazing. It’s easy to use. It’s not a huge, long stack of 60 questions. The data was so easy and simple to use and read and unpack. The toolkit’s so practical and usable. It gives you practical things you can do. They’re not all large things—they’re from small to big.
We know that the [teaching] gig is a hard one, so let’s make our workforce and our place of work the best possible place it can be for our teachers and for our staff.
In education we’ve had growing awareness of the importance of wellbeing for our staff in education. We are professionals at looking after our student wellbeing. We always speak about it, we consider it in all of our decisions. There’s a step before student wellbeing, which is looking after those adults who have that responsibility.
The whole educational environment is changing. I was really interested to not only find out how our staff were doing, but also to be able to do something about it.
It means we can engage our staff in a conversation about wellbeing and develop a plan together. It’s not just the leadership team developing a plan based on what we think, but we can actually work with the staff to develop a plan, implement strategies that are based on the needs of our staff.
“It provided opportunities for us to have very clear, identified goals. So, it doesn’t become a side project. It’s actually embedded with what we’re doing across the school with our Annual Improvement Plan.”
“It’s not just … a top-down approach. [Staff] are seeing that we’re in this together and wellbeing is everybody’s business. That’s the message we’re getting back. It’s not just us making them feel better about their workplace; it’s a shared responsibility.”
