Case study
Colgate-Palmolive
A wellbeing partnership since 2019. Conferences and events in the UK, live instructor-led wellbeing programmes and eLearning in different languages to over 3000 employees globally.
What we did
eLearning
Delivered live, virtual trainer-led courses in different languages, adapted to meet needs and be culturally sensitive.
Global Audience
Live, virtual trainer-led courses to over 3000 employees globally since 2019 across different time zones.
Languages
Programmes in different languages, adapted to meet needs and be culturally sensitive.
Top down approach
Training to meet the needs of Senior Leaders and managers across the business.
Colgate-Palmolive, is a leading American multinational with employees in over 100 countries. Since our partnership began in 2019, we have delivered tailored mental health and wellbeing programmes, including live, virtual instructor-led courses and eLearning modules in multiple languages.
Working closely with the Global Wellbeing Lead in New York, we identified ways to support their mental health journey and ensure a consistent message across the organisation. Our programmes were designed to address the challenges of change and uncertainty.
Customised eLearning programmes to reflect relevant legislation and positions around mental health in the workplace and employment law in different countries.
We have delivered our live courses in different languages using Oakwood trainers based in the UK. Much more than just translation, we took the time to understand and adapt our training to be sensitive of local cultures.
We’ve covered all time zones to ensure the training reached as many people as possible (so involved a few early mornings and late nights!)
We tailored our Manager eLearning programme to reflect relevant legislation and positions around mental health in the workplace and employment law in different countries.
What the client said
"We were looking for a partner, who had a positive approach to Mental Health & Wellbeing. Someone who could convey the message in an engaging way while still being laser sharp about the seriousness of taking care of your own wellbeing. It was important to select a programme, which could embrace our Colgate Culture and at the same time tap straight into various local cultures and allow each individual to feel invited and listen to.
The programme has been a great success with incredible high participation on both the virtual instructor-led sessions and the eLearning modules. What we particularly love is the bite-sized, fun and interactive way the eLearning is constructed with a great variety to keep the learner hooked.
The equal and unpretentious dialogue Oakwood masters creates psychological safety and opens up for dialogue, vulnerability - and the opportunity to proactively take responsibility"
Susanne Vang
Talent Acquisition & Learning Manager - Northern Europe, Colgate-Palmolive Company
Colgate-Palmolive has had a strategic partnership with Oakwood since 2019 for our Mental Health Champion Programme and other wellbeing initiatives.
Oakwood has provided us invaluable advice in the workplace wellbeing space. They have delivered key Programmes like mental health manager training, employee training, design and implementation of a mental health champion Programme, design of a support toolkit for parents returning from leave of absences etc.
We are very grateful for this partnership.
Shivani Singh
Senior HR Director (Northern Europe) at Colgate-Palmolive
"Oakwood are incredibly amazing to work with and are really customer-focused. They have helped us truly drive our mental health and wellbeing strategy as an organisation as well as equipping our Mental Health Champions with the right tools and resources to support our colleagues.
They always take the time to understand our needs for each of the mental health and wellbeing workshops, delivering sessions that truly meet the needs whilst keeping the audience in mind at all times.
Oakwood are truly the experts in their field and continue to help us on our journey to help drive change with mental health and wellbeing."
Priyanka Patel
Senior HR Business Partner at Colgate-Palmolive
