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...
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,...
The Loneliness of Leadership in HR
The Loneliness of Leadership in HR This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focussed on the topic of loneliness and how it’s connected to our mental health. It’s easy to believe that loneliness comes from...
How Managers can evolve into Wellbeing Champions’
An Introduction I spent 13 years in the Army - a soldier, an officer, a leader and a manager; the culture was supportive of employee wellbeing and welfare, despite not specifically broaching the topic of mental...
What on earth is a Wellbeing Champion?
What on earth is a Wellbeing Champion and what exactly is their role? There are many more people quite rightly recognising the importance of workplace wellbeing and now championing the importance of mental health...
Starting at the Top: How to get Senior Management to drive your wellbeing culture
How to get Senior Management to Drive Wellbeing Culture In a former life – before the concept of mental wellbeing was widely acknowledged or embraced – I had management oversight of approximately one hundred soldiers...