The campaign promotes proactive self care, including: - good nutrition and regular exercise to support general wellbeing and help maximise people’s immunity - adopting positive lifestyle choices - increasing health literacy levels in the community and in schools - supporting mental wellness by keeping connected, ensuring a sense...
The CIPD reported (April 2022) - increased stress or mental health problems through people working remotely (44%) - difficulty in working as expected for employees who lack space or privacy when working from home (43%) - and employee conflict due to the challenges...
We recently visited a brilliant client who really worked hard to engage and support their colleagues. As we stood by the telephone and laptop chargers watching people power up numerous pieces of technology, they turned and said to me "wouldn’t it...
Positive relationships really matter, they help us cope with everyday stress, it is proven they help us to live happier and healthier lives both physically and mentally #Mentalhealth Maintaining our relationships should be as important as eating healthily and exercising. Ask...
There are typically two ways people try to deal with stress at work. One is to simply 'head down and power through' — to focus on getting the stressful work done. Leaders often have 'action orientated mindset' and want to find...
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...
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...
There is a brilliant focus on helping colleagues achieve and maintain great mental health. Physical resilience is also important and working virtually many of us are spending the day looking down at laptops, sat all day not leaving our place of...
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...
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...