We all know to have a brilliant, engaging health and wellbeing campaign it has to be planned well, use many communication channels and reach as many employees as possible. In the short-term, we can choose what language and conversations we have. J...
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...
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,...
What a great day Maria had in London last week, back to her previous world, challenging processes for customers and colleagues in the finance sector. A jam packed 65 mins, 150 colleagues on their feet and participating, looking at how we...
A survey of 7,500 full-time employees by Gallup found the top four reasons for burnout to be: - Unfair treatment at work - Unmanageable workload - Lack of role clarity - Lack of communication and support from their manager When we look at this list...
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...
Burnout is often defined as "an experience of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion, caused by long-term involvement in situations that are emotionally demanding"(Health-care worker burnout and the mental health imperative. Lancet. 2009 Aug 22374(9690):595-7.) Increasingly employers are worried about it because...