Practically Positive and London Metropolitan University Announce New Flourishing at Work Assessment Tool

Stop measuring high level employee engagement and start understanding the feelings of each individual. We have been working together with London Metropolitan University to further develop their research into the enigma that is employee engagement.

Using research with people who love what they do, we’ve developed and tested an original model focusing on the experience of employee engagement at an individual level.  Our academic research shows that for individuals to flourish, they need to feel a combination of six things: Valuable, Autonomous, Challenged, Passionate, Safe and Connected. Using the results from comprehensive survey data and the brilliant minds at London Metropolitan University, we have just validated a new Flourishing at Work assessment tool, based on these feelings.

Jen Rolfe, Director and Founder of Practically Positive said:

“This assessment tool measures ‘state’ engagement for each individual, or in other words how much of these six feelings you’re experiencing at any one time. Once employees can identify the experience, they can do things to feel that way more often. Using this tool gives the power back to your employees. It’s not about changing your benefits package or adding flexitime, it’s about helping every person think differently about their tasks, interactions and days.”

Gary Pheiffer, Director of the Centre for Occupational, Business and Consumer Psychology at London Metropolitan University added:

“Helping organisations take a fresh approach to employee engagement will enable them to have employees who are not only flourishing, but who take responsibility for their own experiences at work. This tool is very different for the others available to Learning and Development teams and should be seen as the way forward.”

If you'd like more details about our new assessment tool, or our Flourishing at Work and Employee Engagement workshops, get in touch at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We're also running at Flourishing at Work taster workshop on Wednesday 25th September at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall. Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve your place, but be quick places are going fast!

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