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...
Know your numbers week is approaching and with COVID-19 increasing the number of mental health problems line managers have to deal with, colleagues need more support than ever before. This year how about asking line managers - 'Do you know your...
During COVID-19, we have regular contact with colleagues of clients who are working from home and doing a brilliant job. As we all get to know each other, people relax and open up about what they feel hampers their performance and...
Small niggles and tensions between colleagues are now becoming more obvious as we settle into home working and life ‘loving the video’. For our mental wellbeing we really need to help each other call out when we see overt unkind behaviours...
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...