Managing Workplace Stress
How Genesis Can Help Build Awareness and Improve Mental Health in Police and Fire & Rescue Services Stress in the workplace is a major challenge in the UK, with work-related stress, anxiety, and depression costing...
From Ignorance to Understanding
Mental Health - From Ignorance to Understanding For many and varied reasons, our society’s literacy around mental health is still pretty low. Thanks to initiatives and activism it’s gradually getting better but...
Five Steps to becoming an Employer of Choice
After the upheaval of the pandemic, organisations are increasingly having to focus on new ways of attracting the best talent. In a climate where the best talent has more choice, salary is no longer the deal-breaker it once...
Mental Health: A Shared Responsibility
Who is responsible for mental wellbeing in the workplace? That’s a question we’ve been grappling with for the last few years whilst working with a number of very different organisations; some have been public sector...
The Forestry Commission’s Inclusive Wellbeing Culture
Creating an inclusive wellbeing culture in a large and diverse organisation with employees found all over the country can be a real challenge. Tara Chambers and Wali Rahman from the Forestry Commission’s Wellbeing and...
Moral Injury & Moral Burnout
Moral injury is a devastating experience that can have a lasting impact on those who experience it, with the potential to affect people across organisations, including those who witness it in others. Although moral...
Relational intelligence eats policy for breakfast
We've all experienced, to a greater or lesser extent, the largely negative but sometimes positive impacts of what can seem like a permacrisis in our lives and work. For example, just as we feel like we're getting out of...
Psychological safety – it’s a team sport
Psychological safety is a term that we are hearing more and more about. It’s one of those concepts that, even if we haven’t heard of it in these terms, we have all definitely experienced and, more disappointingly,...
You don’t have to be an expert…
Early on in the involvement of NATO’s International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the Taliban realised that they were getting outgunned by a better-equipped adversary. In response they evolved their...
Is Resilience a function of Risk and Security?
Should Resilience be the business of Risk and Security Functions, not HR? I'm here to share some thinking on Resilience with you from the individual and human perspective, and as I go through, I’ll make some...