Assessments
Summary: Effective assessments help us identify strengths and areas for improvement as individuals, teams and organizations. These free resources can help.
There are many specific assessments offered below. Here, we highlight 3 of them.
For leaders
Guarding Minds at Work is a suite of tools including an employee survey that assesses psychosocial factors which are within the influence and responsibility of the organization and do not cover measurements of employee mental health or well-being. The results can help you consider changes to policies and procedures that may impact psychological health.
Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment is an online survey that can be used in two different ways. The first is a self-assessment where a leader responds to statements about how frequently they engage in strategies known to support the psychological health and safety of employees. The second is a survey sent to employees, to assess leaders on the same measures.
For teams
Psychologically Safe Team Assessment goes beyond looking at leadership. It measures how team members feel about how they interact with each other and their sense of inclusion.
Assessment articles and resources
The list that follows includes all assessments and assessment-related pages from Workplace Strategies for Mental Health.
Effective assessments help organizations identify strengths and areas for improvement. Each of these assessments is evidence-based and free to use.
Learn about Guarding Minds and how to use it to take action on psychological health and safety at work.
This free resource helps leaders become aware of the impact they can have on the psychological health and safety (PHS) of employees at work. It helps leaders improve communication, social intelligence, fairness and problem-solving.
This resource helps to assess how employees experience being a member of your team.
This free tool can help you improve your self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management.
Easy to use scorecards are available for organizations or leaders to measure and track trends in psychological health and safety. Use the samples provided or follow the guidelines to create your own.
This is a free online program for all employees. They can learn how to contribute to a psychologically healthy and safe workplace by being a mindful employee.
These surveys and tools use employee perspectives to focus on work conditions, not individual employee mental health or wellbeing. They help you start based on available resources and capacity and allow you to assess the right level of intervention – organizational, leader, team or individual.
Tips for evaluating and adjusting a psychological health and safety management system. These approaches will help you continually improve your system.
Use these resources and strategies to set a baseline and develop a plan to create and maintain a psychologically healthy and safe workspace that supports employee well-being.