Wellbeing at Work Matters

A thriving workplace is about more than retaining great employees. When people feel supported, connected, and equipped to navigate challenges, they are better able to contribute, collaborate, grow, and do their best work. Investing in employee wellbeing can strengthen workplace culture, engagement, productivity, resilience, and long-term organizational success.

Midland County employers don’t have to do this work alone. Our community and region offer a strong network of organizations providing resources for workplace assessment and strategy, culture, leadership development, employee development, mental health, and practical supports that address barriers to employment.

These resources include the Midland Area Wellbeing Coalition, Great Lakes Bay Region Mental Health Partnership, PartnerShift Network, Lead, ROCK Center for Youth Development, and Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities. Together, they offer employers multiple ways to strengthen the wellbeing of their people and organizations—from assessments and strategic planning to training, coaching, workplace culture initiatives, and employee support.

The Business Case for Wellbeing

8X
Engagement

More engaged employees

4X
Talent Retention

Less likely to lose talent

30%
Absences

Reductio in sick leave

3X
Output

More productive

Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities (Our Community Listens)

From their website: Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities offers transformational learning experiences that strengthen relationships and build stronger communities. We integrate listening, leadership, care and service to create Truly Human Connection.

The Foundation offers Our Community Listens, a distinctive learning experience that transforms individuals and the communities in which they live through the power of empathetic engagement. During our workshops, participants explore themselves and how they interact with others and come out on the other end seeing the world in a different way: through a more compassionate lens. Through tools that encourage and enhance human connection, Our Community Listens is fostering a society where care and compassion rise above indifference and prejudice person by person, community by community. Learn more here.

Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities (Our Community Listens)

Certificate in Creating Wellbeing

Do you wish you had the latest research in positive psychology, neuroscience, and behavior change and easy and effective tools to help people apply these insights at your fingertips? Delivered over 12 weeks, the Certificate in Creating Wellbeing includes live training classes and coaching calls, to give you all the resources, tools, and support you need from our world-leading positive psychology and wellbeing team of researchers and practitioners. The next round kicks off right here in Midland in January!