Gratitude is the best attitude
You can even do this exercise in team meetings and then revisit what you all wrote in a few months time. Over time, you will find that you have a jar full of reasons to be thankful for what you have...
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Get you and your team outdoors in lockdown
We have all been brilliant at work, changing our ways of working, smashing to bits barriers that prevented us from allowing colleagues to work from home, using virtual channels as means of communication, the list of changes is huge and...
Let’s have some fun in November
“I am exhausted and cannot think of ideas to engage my team before Christmas, we are ‘virtually’ drained.” November can be a brilliant month of fun as you start getting your teams to think about ways to improve their wellbeing. Below are...
What are you doing to get teams outdoors?
The dark evenings are creeping up on us. In many of the workshops we design and deliver, lots of employees have asked us about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) . As more and more of us work from home, our journeys into...
Make the change NOW – protect your mental energy
It is well documented that those who are working from home doing lots of video calls, learning to love the screen, are facing an extra layer of fatigue. How many of you are helping colleagues try new rituals to keep...
Walking meetings – we can still do them
Turn on the audio, go for a walk, social distance and be more creative. There is heaps if research that find the act of walking leads to increases in creative thinking. Plenty of anecdotal evidence also suggests that walking meetings lead...
Don’t forget to laugh
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...
Video chat is helping us stay employed and connected. But what makes it so tiring – and how can we reduce Zoom fatigue?
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...
Why don’t you let people stand up in meetings?
‘We love your sessions; they fly by and I always hit my step target’ – really flattering feedback from a manager who attended one of our recent insight workshops. This is how the conversation followed: Let’s Get Healthy (LGH) – “Do you...
Poor mental health – are you switching off outside work?
January to March are really busy periods in the health and wellbeing world. With typical peaks in absence and loss of performance we find ourselves designing and delivering digital and face to face training to improve resilience and mental health. One...