Episode 6: Board President Kristi Pier continues her conversation with Dan Foy of Gallup to investigate next steps and promising practices in promoting employee wellbeing and resilience.

Questions asked:

1. Gallup is an a global analytics and advice firm working with leaders to understand and address opportunities within their organizations. They have a wealth of knowledge around trends in the workplace, having collected data on employee engagement from 35 million people across the world. Dan, tell us about your work with Gallup. What are your focus areas? What energizes you most about your role?2. As we are in year 3 of experiencing a global pandemic, there are more conversations happening around resilience which impacts us on an individual level, but also impacts us at work. Can you tell us more about what’s being tracked related to employee resilience and wellbeing? 3. Have you changed what you’re looking at as a result of changing work environments in response to COVID?a. Probe: how are you looking at employee wellbeing (social-emotional, physical, financial, intentions to leave or stay with company, connection with colleagues and work etc.)4. What stands out to you as the most important factor organizations need to attend to if they are going to successfully support employee wellbeing? 5. Gallup recently (March 2022) released new data showing the shift in employee perceptions of their organizations caring about employee wellbeing. What can you tell us about that? 6. What do you see as some of the biggest factors impacting the shift in perceptions? What can be done to address this shift? What are the potential implications if organizations don’t address this?7. What do you see as the biggest challenges organizations will need to address moving forward as it related to employee resilience and wellbeing? How might they begin tackling these challenges? How can leadership at all levels support organizational efforts to improve resilience and wellbeing?8. Based on the data, what’s next? What are the next steps organizations should be taking based on resilience and wellbeing?

Learning Objectives

· Define what makes a resilience-centered program· Identify areas in which organizations and staff can increase resilience in their teams and communities· Apply lessons learned from resilience-focused leaders in public health to current and future programs

The 2022 NACDD Board President’s Challenge Podcast examines how to build resilience at all levels of the socioecological model. In this seven-part series Board President Kristi Pier interviews leaders from across the country who are working in public health at the societal, community, interpersonal, and individual levels to learn promising practices and next steps to building environments supportive of resilience and well-being.