Blog tag: mental health

The year-end holidays are almost here. You can feel the excitement rising – but let’s be honest, with deadlines breathing down your neck, your mind feels anything but free. You’re tired, overloaded, maybe even fed up with a few colleagues. Sound familiar? That’s your body and brain telling you, it’s…

Burnout is an increasing challenge for employees and their managers. Change exacerbates burnout risk by adding to your team’s cognitive and emotional load: they need to learn new systems, adjust workflows, build new relationships and navigate uncertainty often while maintaining their regular workload. The toll of burnout is not only…

World Mental Health Day is a crucial reminder that leaders have a vital role in supporting their teams. But this isn’t just about providing resources; it’s about genuine empathy, authenticity  and a strategic approach that also prioritises your own wellbeing. Here’s a guide to how leaders can effectively support their…

During Mental Health Awareness week, there is quite rightly much talked about with regards to how to support good mental health in the workplace. However, we suggest that for long term sustainable impact, leaders should look to integrate healthy practices into the day to day of work, rather than having…

Burnout can gradually creep up on those it affects – which makes it so hard to identify. You feel like you are in control, despite the pressure. And then one day you’re not OK. Does this sound familiar? You are certainly not alone. A ‘Google’ search on burnout shows us…

It’s one thing to know you want change to take place, it’s another to see that change become reality. Awareness is only the start, you need to be able to take action – congruent, consistent and real action. And if you are a leader, you’ll only see the change you…

As we close another turbulent year in the world of work, it is increasingly clear that the biggest challenge for organisations next year will be retaining their exceptional people. We started to read about the ‘great resignation’ in the summer with research from Microsoft predicting that up to 40% of…

Despite the pressures of the pandemic on home and work-life, especially impacting on mental health, new research finds that actual take up of wellbeing programmes is running at 23%. (HBR/Gartner 2021). This is despite much higher numbers of employees admitting to mental health issues. It’s clearly in everyone’s interest to…

Burnout has been one of the most talked about organisational topics throughout the pandemic. As business and government press for a return to office life, the organisations that stand the best chance of successfully managing burnout will be those that recognise what has happened to their people while they’ve been…

Much has been made of the impact of the pandemic and the effects of remote working on the wellbeing of employees this past year. As we tentatively return to some semblance of normality, it will be the resilient organisations that will recover the quickest. Resilient leaders need a positive state…