A focus on wellbeing
This year the Community Waikato team have recognised and made an effort to prioritise wellbeing. As a result we now have a Wellbeing Strategy which includes both activities to support team wellbeing and plans for the wellbeing of individual team members.
Some of the actions we have already taken as part of our team wellbeing are – ‘Coffee Buddy’ where we meet and have a chat/coffee with one member of the team each month, just to ensure we keep in touch and connected with each other, particularly with so many working away from the office. We had a team outing to Te Awamutu, where we visited significant cultural landmarks in the Waipa area, and learned about early settler and Maaori history, and some of the battles and outcomes of land wars. This was an emotional experience that helped our team better understand the history of the area that we work within.
At our most recent team wellbeing event we had an art session with Dannika Tukua who encouraged us to create paintings of birds that represented ourselves and our whaanau. It was a fun, creative day!