PERMAH College-University Evaluation

The globally renowned PERMAH Wellbeing Tool is a powerful instrument used by organisations around the world to make navigating the complexities of supporting mental health and wellbeing in their workplace easier. 

More than 180,500 PERMAH Tool surveys have been completed across over 1,310 workplaces in 145 countries and eighty-three percent of survey users report that they would recommend the tool to other workplaces.

Why is the PERMAH Tool so popular? Everything - from the PERMAH Tool questions and results insights to the reports, guides, and additional resources - has been designed through an evidence-informed and strengths-based lens. This approach both normalises struggle and importantly also provides users with a highly effective and flexible evidence-based wellbeing toolbox, ready to use. Completely confidential and taking less than five minutes to complete, The PERMAH Tool for Veterinary Workplaces provides:

For college - university staff…

• An immediate, easy-to-understand “Wellbeing Insights Results Report” with coaching questions to guide them through their findings.
• The option to create a personalised “Wellbeing Plan” from more than 200 evidence-based workplace wellbeing nudges if they wish.

For college - university leaders…

• A de-identified “Workplace Wellbeing Insights Results Report” with actionable insights for their people (“Me” Level), team (“We” Level), and workplace (“Us” Level), along with coaching questions to guide leaders through the findings.
• A step-by-step “Workplace Wellbeing Strategy” for leading wellbeing, featuring more than 50 evidence-based team wellbeing activities to try.

The PERMAH Tool for College-University measures:

• State Of Workplace Wellbeing - Know where and for whom to prioritise your wellbeing efforts and investments with this simple-but-powerful snapshot that shows you the levels of thriving and struggle across your teams and workplace.
• Workplace Outcomes - Explore the impact people’s levels of wellbeing may be having on engagement, performance, and satisfaction in your workplace.
• Wellbeing Amplifiers - Evaluate the effectiveness of your efforts and investments to help care for wellbeing, improving people’s wellbeing abilities, confidence, and safety.
• PERMAH Wellbeing Factors - Understand the strengths of current individual (“Me”), leader and team (“We”), and workplace (“Us”) actions to care for wellbeing, and identify the potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed.
• Workplace Wellbeing Nutrients - Understand the strengths of your workplace culture to support people’s psychological needs for belonging, diversity, mastery, autonomy, job resources, and physical safety, and identify the potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed. 
• Additional Insights - The top three wellbeing struggles being experiences, the biggest barriers to caring for wellbeing, the people we turn to for help, and the most valued forms of workplace wellbeing support are captured.