DTU Well-being Dialogue

DTU works on a dialogue-based basis with well-being

The DTU Well-being Dialogue is a structured dialogue with your colleagues about what is important to your well-being. See in the box on the right how a DTU Well-being Dialogue takes place.

DTU Well-being Dialogue

Held at least every three years. The next one will be in 2028. Several units choose to hold them more frequently.

Documentation

Topics from the well-being dialogues are continuously documented in the processes that support DTU’s collaboration and working environment organization.
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Follow-up

DTU’s culture of collaboration is based on regular dialogues between manager and employee (1:1) which includes following up on wellbeing
Furthermore, DTU has incorporated a structure (templates) for following up on wellbeing in connection with the annual health and safety discussion (mandatory once a year) in the local cooperation committees and during the annual performance review (mandatory once a year).

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Who does what (checklist)
Well-being dialogkort (download virtual version or overview to print)
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Documentation

DTU Well-being Dialogues

Introduction to DTU Well-being Dialogues (film with the President)

DTU wants to use dialogue to strengthen shared well-being. Therefore, the former DTU Well-being Survey (MTU) has been replaced with a dialogue-based method for working with well-being (psychological APV). DTU Well-being dialogues are based on the fact that the individual is willing to enter into a dialogue about and take responsibility for their own well-being and that of the community.

The quality of dialogue rather than measurement is first and foremost that we have to listen to each other. Both parties in a relationship have their good reasons for thinking, saying and meaning as they do. Only when we listen to each other does it become possible to understand the other's starting point and motivations. It is a first step to finding common ground and making agreements on actions that we mutually feel responsible for practicing.

DTU Well-being Dialogues are facilitated by HR in close cooperation with the local management and are anchored in the local working environment groups and work committees.

We can only act on what we have the courage to say out loud. Therefore, a primary purpose of DTU Well-being Dialogues is to train everyone in the organization to create a safe and trusting dialogue about well-being. There may be situations where you feel uneasy about having an open dialogue about your own well-being. In that situation, you are encouraged to contact a colleague you trust, your local trade union representative (TR) and/or working environment representative (AMR), your unit's HR partner, manager's manager or contact DTU's Psychological Counselling.