Enhancing Workplace Resilience and Wellbeing with our 'Give Me 5' Workshop

Case Study: Enhancing Workplace Resilience and Wellbeing with Our ‘Give Me 5’ Course

Our ‘Give Me 5’ course is designed to cultivate resilience and instil lasting wellbeing habits; essential skills and attributes that enable team members to overcome challenges and excel in the workplace (and life in general!) Our experienced trainers delivered our enlightening signature course to 3 different groups of 24 participants.  

Working closely with the employers of said participants, we were able to measure impact which evidenced the powerful personal development participants had encountered following the course; development in both resilience and psychological wellbeing.

What the Give Me 5 course entails

Resilience is the underpinning theme of the ‘Give Me 5’ course, with actionable strategies to build a resilient mindset and well-being both personally and in the workplace. Endorsed by a leading academic of Sheffield Hallam University, and Head of Learning and Impact at Inspiring Learning, Dr. John Allan has overseen the development of this transformative course at In2action.

“The psychological well-being and resilience of a workforce is of paramount importance in contemporary workplaces. Success relies on an individual’s capacity to cope and even thrive when faced with stress. Maintaining a balance of physical, mental and social capabilities, and being adaptable to changes, can be learned.” - Dr. John Allan

Opening with a reflection session, participants are challenged to think about their personal wellbeing and how their emotions play a role. Structured around the 5 pillars of wellbeing, and 5 impactful techniques to instantly boost mood and wellbeing, participants are encouraged to develop a sense of empowerment.  

An understanding of how to also recognise a decline in a colleague’s wellbeing is presented, along with further training on how participants can support team members and improve and regulate their own current state of being.  

Measuring impact with tangible results

As part of our research into the quality of our Give Me 5 course, we worked with Dr. John Allan to capture data using surveys with psychometric properties pre and post sessions. This would be a benchmark to quantify changes in participant’s wellbeing and resilience. Given a response rate of 95%, it suggests there was excellent engagement in the programme and a commitment from teams in providing feedback.

In all sessions of the workshops, participants’ scores showed their wellbeing and resilience was positively impacted. Results indicated that over three quarters of people thought they were now able to bounce-back from disappointments more frequently.

Scores for improving resilience

Measuring resilience was possible with a valid and reliable two question psychometric instrument called the Connor-Davison (CD-RISC2) scale. This scale captures the essence of resilience, for example, the ability to spring back and successfully adapt to change.  

Results showed the Give Me 5 course enabled the healthy development of resilience of participants in line with population norms. 83% of attendees felt they were able to adapt ‘often’ or ‘all of the time’ when changes occurred.  

Possible scores for the two questions range from 0 (low resilience) to 8 (very high resilience). The mean (average) score across both courses were 6.05 which are in line with normal population values for healthy individuals, a positive and encouraging result considering in and out of workplace struggles that individuals can face daily.  

Impact on psychological wellbeing

The positive scores for wellbeing correlated well with the heightened resilience reported by attendees. This confirms that those people who feel good are also able to adapt to changing circumstances. As with the resilience scale, the four questions on well-being on the survey were taken from a validated Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS). The questions cover emotions (affective) physical (effective) and thinking (cognitive) skills. All these areas were perceived by attendees as positive.  

70% or more of people reported feeling optimistic, relaxed, dealing with problems well and thinking clearly ‘often’ or ‘all of the time’ following completion of the courses.

Only 9 people from the 80 attendees across these courses felt their psychological well-being was not impacted.  

The mean score for psychological well-being over the three courses was 14.45 for a range of possible scores 0 (low) to 20 (high). This means that the score is in the highest tertile (highest third) of scores.  

Overall, there was an 8% positive increase in the groups average score for their psychological well-being from pre-programme to post-programme. This reflected in heightened shifts in their perceived levels of optimism, feeling relaxed, dealing with problems well, and thinking clearly (pre to post differences).  

Further results showed that, 15% more people reported feeling optimistic often or all the time, 28% more people felt relaxed, and 12% more people perceived they were able deal with problems better.  

How the course itself scored

Following Give Me 5, 25% stated they could think more clearly following the programme. The quality of course content and delivery very highly rates with 100% of respondents thinking it was either ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. 92% of those attending rated the presenter as excellent.

We would like to thank those team members involved for their participation in our research, and for their dedication in using the Give Me 5 techniques to further build their resilience and improve their wellbeing.

Contact us to discuss how Give Me 5 could benefit your teams.

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