Send secure mental wellbeing check-ins linked to support and produce wellbeing impact and risk reports for key stakeholders.

<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> Why use Skodel as a leadership team

Mental health issues are on the rise and leaders are increasingly viewed on their commitment to ESG. Leadership teams want to ensure their organisation isn’t causing or exacerbating mental health issues. Proactive mental health check-ins linked to support can identify, prevent or intervene early on issues. The data guides wellbeing and risk management strategies. And, a documented and proactive approach of checking in and supporting mental health builds trust in a leadership teams commitment to social responsibility.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> When check-ins are sent from the top

For a senior leader, their mission often extends beyond just driving performance. It's about genuinely understanding and connecting with people. But with growing numbers and geographical spread, leaders naturally become distanced from people. This is a missed opportunity to create positive cultural change. People look up to founders, principals and CEOs and their word holds extra significance. Skodel is a way of connecting senior leaders with people. It’s not an engagement or performance survey. It’s a message from the top to check in and say ‘Hi Sarah, just checking in. How are things with you?’. This simple gesture can shift Sarah’s entire perspective on the organisation.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> Potential use cases

• Early identification and resolution of issues like burnout or lack of support
• Provide documentation of internal outlets and support options
• Produce a transparent wellbeing report for stakeholders
• Encourage internal resolution of internal issues rather than people sharing these externally
• Create positive culture change by prioritising wellbeing
• Anonymous wellbeing feedback to inform strategic changes
• A more meaningful and authentic internal feedback process focused on wellbeing </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" alt="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" width="40px" /> Example of Skodel in action

• Identification: A private and safe space that encourages people to share how things are going.

• Control measures: An immediate response in place for everyone.

• Alerts to assess and triage risks: Safety and risk managers will be notified of and can triage concerns and maintain a digital audit trail of these concerns.

• Reporting tools: Clear trend and group reporting to highlight areas of concern and areas that are working well.

• Value: Early identification and resolution of risks via a safe and auditable process. </aside>

Key considerations in wellbeing and mental health software

1. Liability collecting sensitive data: Skodel ensures sensitive issues are responded to appropriately and support is documented to mitigate liability risks. Works with recognised legal and people and risk teams to support its approach.
2. Diversity and multilingual capability: Skodel’s app can be translated into multiple languages to support diverse user groups.
3. Integration capability: Integrates with Microsoft Teams, SSO capabilities with Google and Microsoft and maintains open API to integrate with platforms as per your needs.
4. Evidence based: Co-designed alongside Andrew Fuller who is one of Australia’s leading clinical psychologists. He is also a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.
5. Anonymity: Skodel can be run anonymously or identifiably.
6. Existing internal survey systems: Are you using other internal feedback surveys? It’s worth assessing where you want to focus your internal survey efforts, what you want to achieve with these and if Skodel can fit in or replace existing approaches. We make the case for having an internal feedback system focused on wellbeing in this article here.

Getting started

1. Strategy session with leadership - define roles and responsibilities, key outcomes, actions to take and metrics to track.
2. Technical setup - upload users via a CSV and/or carry out necessary integrations.
3. Introduction - send an email out to all people introducing Skodel (Skodel has email templates for you).

🏃🏽 Interested in getting started?