{"id":10650,"date":"2021-07-13T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:19:11","slug":"how-helen-sanderson-mbe-has-created-people-centric-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/how-helen-sanderson-mbe-has-created-people-centric-workplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"How Helen Sanderson MBE Has Created People-Centric Workplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let&#8217;s create workplaces where we can be human with each other<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a care team that, compared to traditional home care organisations, has one third less sickness, five times better staff retention and where people are five times less likely to end up in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is what Wellbeing Teams have achieved in Thurrock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen Sanderson founded Wellbeing Teams. Inspired by the Dutch care company\u00a0<a href=\"\/blogs\/buurtzorg-no-managers-just-great-care-from-a-nurse-led-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buurtzorg<\/a>, Wellbeing Teams are small, neighbourhood self-managed care teams. They have coaches, but no managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen attended the first Happy Workplaces Conference at Google in 2014. Encouraged by the ideas of trust and freedom, the real eureka moment came when she read&nbsp;<em>Reinventing Organisations<\/em>&nbsp;by Frederick Laloux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My father died when he was 53, and as I approached my 50th&nbsp;birthday it set me thinking. 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Camden Council are also developing their own Wellbeing Teams supported by Helen and her team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen has been immersed in the development of person-centred practices in the UK over the last twenty years. She was the Department of Health&#8217;s expert advisor on person-centred approaches to the Valuing People Support and Putting People First Teams and co-authored the first Department of Health Guidance on person-centred planning, and the 2010 guidance &#8216;Personalisation through person-centred planning&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What I like to explore is how we be human with each other in the workplace, recognising we spend more time there with colleagues than with our families. How do we make the workplace be somewhere we grow and develop as people, not just for our careers?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hear more from Helen at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen is back by popular demand at this year&#8217;s Happy Workplaces Conference. This time she will be talking about &#8216;confirmatory practices&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are simple self-reflective statements that give the individual the ability to hold themselves to account, without any need for a manager to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers at the conference include best-selling author Liz Wiseman and Professor Donna Hall, CBE, former CEO of Wigan Council. 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