Workplace Wellbeing - Courses

Program Overview

This seven-week online course explores workplace wellbeing from a socio-technical systems perspective. Led by Trinity College Dublin professionals, it covers factors influencing wellbeing, leadership and change management strategies, and evaluation techniques. Participants receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful participation.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Wellbeing is a core value of most societies, albeit conceptualised, defined, and promoted in diverse ways. Deriving primarily from a psychological perspective, this course introduces participants to a socio-technical systems model of workplace wellbeing, contextualising the organisation’s role between individual’s own wellbeing management, the services, infrastructure and policies in society and the physical infrastructure and technological environment. The course aims to provide students with:

• An understanding of what the workplace wellbeing is and how it can be measured.
• The ability to conceptualise the organisation as a socio-technical system with wellbeing as a key outcome.
• An understanding of the psychosocial, organisational, contextual, and societal factors influencing wellbeing.
• An appreciation of leadership and change management strategies needed to design and deliver effective wellbeing initiatives.
• The ability to apply their knowledge to evaluating wellbeing initiatives.

Outline:

This is a seven-week course divided into seven sessions. Each session is designed to be completed over the course of a week and will comprise several offline learning elements (such as watching introduction videos or preparing some questions for discussion) complemented by a one-hour live webinar. The webinar and study material will be accessed via our student virtual learning environment, Blackboard. The one hour live webinars will take place from 7pm to 8pm (Irish time) on Thursdays on the following dates in 2024. (2024) September 26th, October 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, November 7th

Teaching:

Assistant Professor Sam Cromie and Assistant Professor Siobhán Corrigan of Trinity College Dublin, along with relevant industry professionals where applicable.

Other:

On successful completion participants will be provided with a Certificate of Completion. For the best online experience, we recommend using Chrome as your default browser, along with a USB (or other) headset with built in microphone. The course fee includes access to the course materials via Blackboard (Trinity’s virtual learning environment) for the duration of the course. Participation in this CPD course does not include access to the Trinity Library or any other student services (including a student identity card). Places are limited, so enroll as soon as possible to secure your place on the course.