Team Health and Wellbeing — A Leading Indicator of Just About Everything

How are your teams doing?

A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing (KPI’s; ROV’s OKR’s etc.,) looking for areas where there are opportunities for improvement.

The general idea being ya can’t improve what ya don’t measure. Without some sort of systemic approach with clear visualization — things would very much be a guessing game.

But all of the above metrics are lagging indicators. By the time things have gone off the rails, the damage has been done.

One, if not the most important, leading indicators of team performance is health and wellbeing. As Corporate Rebels wrote, health and wellbeing is not simply “happiness” — it is more about resilience.

Two questions often come up when discussing team engagement and morale:

1. What are things that impact team health and wellbeing (positively and negatively)?
2. Can we really measure and visualize this stuff?

First the Bad News