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Curriculum IV · Employee life cycle

Employee Viewpoint and Well-Being Surveys

Read the instrument you already have as a who — not a trophy.

35–45 minutes · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning

A man fills a survey on a laptop in a cubicle.

Course outline

  1. A score without a who is a blend

    Same lesson as Outcomes, not intentions — applied inward.

    7 minutes

  2. Well-being is not a meditation poster

    Workload, extra labor, secondary trauma — then the app.

    6 minutes

  3. What you will not do with a survey

    No unit ranking. No person score. No new instrument.

    5 minutes

  4. One dated change — or write unfunded

    Read. Then move a gate. Stay interviews if the who is about to leave.

    6 minutes
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What you’ll be able to do

Explore and practice

  • Identify how employee viewpoint and well-being surveys affects a DHS decision, service, or workplace process.
  • Use the course concepts and evidence to examine one live policy, form, meeting, service, hire, budget, or engagement plan.
  • Choose and document one defensible change, the person who owns it, and the date the team will review it.

What you can take into your work

  • Make and reconsider scenario decisions without being assigned a score.
  • Complete the practical activities and record a one-minute transfer commitment.
  • Apply the learning to a live work object in the Equity Analysis Toolkit.

Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.

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Read the introduction

An engagement score without a who is a Minimization dashboard. This course teaches how to read the employee viewpoint and well-being survey you already have — not how to write a new one. Breakout or write missing. One dated change, or write unfunded. Do not rank units. Do not score people. Voluntary.

Survey Job Aid

Read as a who. Do not write a new survey. Do not rank units.
An engagement score without a who is a Minimization dashboard.

Use this aid while applying Employee Viewpoint and Well-Being Surveys to a live DHS work object.

  • An engagement score without a who is a Minimization dashboard.
  • Use the relevant formal door when a right, complaint, labor process, safety duty, or Tribal consultation is involved.

Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.

Read

  • Blend or breakout.
  • Missing is a finding.
  • Well-being is not a poster.

Then

  • One dated change or unfunded.
  • No unit ranking.
  • No person score.
  • Stay interviews if they are leaving.

Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.

Sources and further reading

All research and sources across the program