Givaudan Lead Wellcase study
Givaudan is the global leading manufacturer of flavours, fragrances and active cosmetic ingredients, employing over 16000 people across the globe. They believe in celebrating the beauty of human experience and connection to nature.
Givaudan had just launched its new global purpose, Imagine, created to encapsulate their vision, values and commitments to customers, employees and the environment. A key part of that strategy is to enhance the wellbeing of its people. But in such a large, multi market business, where best to start?
We partnered with the people team to design a programme that would help to create a healthy culture and enhance the resilience of its people. Our work spanned across:
- Lead Well: a four part training programme designed to reach the top 200 with the core ingredients of human leadership, covering our key topics: role modelling, psychological safety, vulnerability & authenticity and brave exchanges
- Healthy Habits: a number of virtual interactive webinars open to all 16000 employees
- Digital drops: a series of infographics and playbooks for employees to proactively enhance their own wellbeing and the tools for managers to hold internal training sessions with their teams
- 200 top leaders exposed to our Lead Well programme
- Thousands of employees reached with our digital content
- “Welfy have brought new insights and behaviours to our teams, beginning the process of thinking about wellbeing in a different way, especially in reinforcing our learning with clear, effective and actionable steps to start the process of change within our organisation. Working with Welfy has been a pleasure, as they are responsive and adaptable. Their delivery of workshops has been very well received by our global audience, and their content was innovative, clear and engaging.” Project Lead, Givaudan
“Welfy have brought new insights and behaviours to our teams, beginning the process of thinking about wellbeing in a different way, especially in reinforcing our learning with clear, effective and actionable steps to start the process of change within our organisation. Working with Welfy has been a pleasure, as they are responsive and adaptable. Their delivery of workshops has been very well received by our global audience, and their content was innovative, clear and engaging.”
It was back in December 2021 when we were slowly coming out of lockdown, I realised that returning to ‘normal’ was not as simple as just getting everyone back to work - whether that be in the office or back out on the roads. We had all been through a lot and as a distributor of medical devices, most (but not all) of our operations had remained open throughout the pandemic. With our employees, we had a true mixture of everything – our field teams had been on furlough for months, our distribution centre had remained open throughout, some of our office staff had to work from home full-time and some of them had to be in the office on a regular basis. As we gradually came out of the pandemic, it was clear that every one of our brilliant team had undergone a variety of experiences and traumas during this time. We needed to do something to help them come to terms with what they had been through and understand what it was like for others in the Company.
That’s where Welfy came in. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking for, but I happened upon the Welfy site, read all about Amy and Vanessa and thought they would be a great place to start. Having arranged an introductory meeting with them and given them our background, they immediately understood what was needed. They proposed a fantastic program which we called You2.
You2 was a blend of group coaching sessions (11 sessions were run and all face-to-face, which was novel in early 2022); followed up with virtual training sessions for all employees teaching them the fundamentals of stress management and how to form healthy habits that stick and build resilience every day. And temperature checks were taken before the program kick-off and after the program had finished to gauge whether it had really made a difference to our team’s engagement and wellbeing. Welfy also put together e-flyers to help promote the sessions.
I can honestly say it was a huge success. People who were sceptical about both the coaching and it being ‘in person’ came away re-energised and with a new appreciation of how important face-to-face interactions are. And at a time when engagement was falling UK-wide, we were able to see a 14% increase in our team’s sense of wellbeing. Such was the success, we have continued to develop our relationship with Welfy to help us on the journey of enhancing engagement and wellbeing throughout the organisation.
A true game-changer.
That’s where Welfy came in. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking for, but I happened upon the Welfy site, read all about Amy and Vanessa and thought they would be a great place to start. Having arranged an introductory meeting with them and given them our background, they immediately understood what was needed. They proposed a fantastic program which we called You2.
You2 was a blend of group coaching sessions (11 sessions were run and all face-to-face, which was novel in early 2022); followed up with virtual training sessions for all employees teaching them the fundamentals of stress management and how to form healthy habits that stick and build resilience every day. And temperature checks were taken before the program kick-off and after the program had finished to gauge whether it had really made a difference to our team’s engagement and wellbeing. Welfy also put together e-flyers to help promote the sessions.
I can honestly say it was a huge success. People who were sceptical about both the coaching and it being ‘in person’ came away re-energised and with a new appreciation of how important face-to-face interactions are. And at a time when engagement was falling UK-wide, we were able to see a 14% increase in our team’s sense of wellbeing. Such was the success, we have continued to develop our relationship with Welfy to help us on the journey of enhancing engagement and wellbeing throughout the organisation.
A true game-changer.
