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Managing Staff Wellbeing for Performance

Live online leadership workshop

Dates: Thursday 5 March 2026 | Time: 9.30am–4.00pm NZT


Why this workshop exists?

Most managers are now expected to manage staff wellbeing and deliver performance, often without clear guidance on where responsibility begins and ends.

As a result, many leaders unintentionally make decisions that:

  • Increase pressure while trying to reduce it.

  • Blur accountability in the name of care.

  • Normalise overload and performance drift.

  • Absorb risk that should sit in systems, not individuals

This workshop addresses a problem rarely named directly:
when wellbeing is managed poorly, it becomes a liability rather than a performance enabler.


What this workshop does differently?

This is not wellbeing training.

It is a workshop focused on how managers influence staff capacity, performance, and sustainability through everyday choices and how leadership impacts them.

The workshop examines:

  • How common management responses quietly erode performance over time

  • Why well-intentioned flexibility can create inequity and risk

  • Where wellbeing responsibility legitimately sits in roles

  • How to lead with care without weakening accountability

  • What high-performing teams do differently under sustained pressure

The emphasis is on clear thinking under pressure, not scripts, policies, or motivation.


Who this workshop is designed for?

This workshop is designed for professionals who:

  • Manage people and are accountable for outcomes

  • Carry responsibility for team performance and staff sustainability

  • Are expected to handle wellbeing issues without formal authority or structure

  • Want stronger decision confidence rather than more initiatives

It is suited to:

  • Team leaders and line managers

  • Middle and senior leaders

  • Senior practitioners with staff oversight

  • Managers operating in high-pressure environments


Outcomes for participants

Participants leave with:

  • Clearer boundaries around wellbeing and performance responsibilities.

  • Stronger judgement in complex people decisions.

  • Reduced invisible load carried by managers.

  • More consistent leadership practice across teams.

  • A practical framework for prevention rather than escalation

This supports leaders to improve productivity, retention, and performance stability without increasing emotional labour or management burden.


Research and framework foundation

The workshop is informed by 16 years of applied Universal Wellbeing research, including analysis of how wellbeing failure points emerge within organisational systems.

Rather than adding new wellbeing activity, the framework helps leaders:

  • Identify where pressure is being produced

  • Reduce inefficiency created by unclear expectations

  • Improve return on investment from existing people practices

The focus is on organisational leverage, not individual resilience.


Individual registration :

This includes:

·        Full-day live online workshop

·        Facilitated professional learning

·        Post-workshop reflection and application guidance

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Individual registration: NZD $395 + GST

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