Your Workplace Leadership Score

Between 1-5

60% of respondents score their leadership in this category

What this score suggests

  • Emails in off hours are typical. Weekends are spent tied to phone or laptop for fear of being late on responding to a work email
  • Leaders do not exhibit digital wellness themselves, nor do they create a culture that protects space for deep work unincumbered by distraction
  • Leaders may send communications across multiple platforms (email, phone, SMS, slack) and drive employees to exhaustion amidst the disparate streams of communication. 

Why it matters

  • Workplaces that have this score are more likely to drive good employees away.  Those who stay are more likely to have poorer sleep outcomes manifested in an increase in stress, anxiety, and depression. Employees personal relationships may be affected. In-fact, the personal screen time of employees may rise as they fall into a cycle of seeking quick dopamine hits through social media and mobile gaming.

What to do about it

  • This is the perfect opportunity for companywide education and empowerment. Leaders need the chance to see that these practices drive poor business outcomes; then, leadership and employees alike need to be given the tools and resources to make a change. Bring in a Certified Digital Wellness Expert to host a virtual or in-person keynote address to bring digital wellness into the topic of conversation. 

Between 6-9

60% of respondents score their leadership in this category

What this score suggests

  • Emails in off hours are not the norm, but also not unheard of. Weekends tied to phone or laptop for fear of being late on responding to a work email are not unheard of. Even though it's not always the norm, the times that it does occur leave employees feeling stressed and anxious.
  • Leaders might not always exhibit digital wellness themselves. Although they try to create a culture that protects space for deep work unincumbered by distraction, this is too often not the reality for employees. 
  • Leadership communication is most often streamlined across a few platforms (email, phone, SMS, slack). Employees sometimes feel exhausted amidst the disparate forms of communication, but for the most part, this is not a root cause of dissatisfaction. 

Why it matters

  • Workplaces that have this score are not necessarily likely to drive good employees away, but nor are they likely to stand out from the crowd as leaders in a competitive jobs market. As such, they run the risk of losing out on attracting the best and the brightest who are seeking an exceptional work experience. It is also likely that employees experience some degree of stress, anxiety, and depression which can be attributed to the lack of digital wellness at work. 

What to do about it

  • This is the perfect opportunity to build off what management is doing well to bring your company to the next level. Leader would benefit from a focused leadership workshop session with one of our Certified Digital Wellness Experts to help them embody what it means to be a Digitally Well Leader.

Between 10-12

60% of respondents score their leadership in this category

What this score suggests

  • Emails in off hours are not the norm. Company leadership does an excellent job setting tech-related boundaries during non-working hours. 
  • Leaders actively exhibit digital wellness in the workplace. They create a culture that protects space for deep work unincumbered by distraction
  • Leaders may send communications across multiple platforms (email, phone, SMS, slack) and drive employees to exhaustion amidst the digital clutter

Why it matters

  • Workplaces that have this score are excelling in the field. This type of workplace is desirable in the digital era. It should be celebrated! Unfortunately, workplaces that fall in this category may not know how to communicate or market this effectively. As such, there's a chance they're missing out on attracting top talent who want to work for digitally well leaders.

What to do about it

  • Your leaders seem to embody what it means to be digitally well! Celebrate that and share it with others by earning a marketable designation as a Certified Digitally Well Workplace. Get started by purchasing the full version of the index for your extended team or company. 
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