1. Well-Being Academy
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What is Quan’s Approach to Well-being?

4 cycles, 3 main steps per cycle, suggested well-being interventions on 3 levels (individual, team, organization)

At Quan, we believe that well-being is not a perk. We know one team building activity will not solve everything. Well-being is a journey. And Quan is your well-being partner.

Quan's software allows organizations to take a more active and supportive role for their employees well-being efforts. We achieve this by providing the data and framework companies need to move away from approaching well-being improvement as a purely individual "problem" that can be addressed with an ever-growing list of well-being perks or rewards.

Here are the three most important things you need to know about Quan's approach to well-being:

  1. Your teams will go through (up to) 4 well-being cycles with Quan in one year. Each cycle lasts approximately 3 months. More about the cycles here.
  2. Each cycle consists of 3 main steps. First, everyone in your team/organisation completes the well-being assessment [link]. Second, Quan prepares well-being reports and suggests next steps to improve the well-being of your employees, teams, and your organization as a whole. On the team level, this step is called Team Well-being Retro It is up to you to implement these next steps. Third, each team implements a team specific Ritual that is aimed at improving your team’s well-being and performance.
  3. Quan suggests well-being interventions on three levels: individual, team, and organizational. The reason for this is that very often improving well-being requires a systematic approach. Improving individual well-being is impossible if the team context prevents that. Similarly, it might be difficult to improve a team’s well-being if the organizational context impedes it. 

Very often, your first well-being cycle helps introduce well-being data and well-being conversations into your teams. With each additional cycle you will be able to compare your new results with the previous ones. Quan reports, when paired with your organizational context (restructuring, hypergrowth, etc.), will give you a solid understanding of the well-being of your teams.