During our virtual training, we have had some ‘proper belly laughs’. Delivery men banging on windows, dogs insisting their voice should be heard and children showing us how great teddies, dolls and wrestlers are and how stupid we , as...
Hopefully with the dreadful impact of COVID-19, we now know that command and control management is on its way out and managers who practice empathy and make an effort to connect with their colleagues are “in” …. but let’s be...
Next week is mental health awareness week, where we collectively help colleagues learn how to be mentally strong and be kind to each other, which in turn helps us to be resilient to the mental health challenges of COVID-19. We have...
How are we all doing? Let’s Get Healthy delivered a session this week on motivation and mood and how we can help colleagues feel mentally energised and strong during COVID-19. We talked about what we can say and do to help...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we’re on video calls more than ever before – and many are finding it exhausting. But what, exactly, is tiring us out? BBC Worklife spoke to Gianpiero Petriglieri, an associate professor at Insead, who explores sustainable...
April is National Stress Awareness month and so far the year has been a hugely busy one for all employers, with the likes of Brexit and now the dreadful the Coronavirus. If you haven’t had time to plan, here are a...
As employers, we need to prepare our managers to help those affected by grief, whether they be working at home or in their workplace. Grieving is a highly individual experience; there’s no right or wrong way to grieve. There are some...
Resilient people tend to learn the lessons in life, adapt and alter what they do to bounce back from stressful situations. Currently we are all feeling stressed and the following my be of help to some colleagues. Help colleagues to take a...
A really good read is the book Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (McGonigal) The research and book suggests that engaging in some activities we assume are non-productive at work - short...
It’s brilliant when we are achieving as a team. We work well together, we seem to all be on the same wavelength, we often relax together and can finish each other’s sentences. Many of us work within brilliant diverse teams,...