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...
Wellbeing Congress
We're exhibiting Genesis at the Wellbeing Congress We’re excited to be attending this year’s Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) Employee Wellbeing Congress on the 28th of June 2022. The 2022...
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...
What is team-led wellbeing?
When we think of work-related wellbeing initiatives, what comes to mind? Being sent on a course with people we don’t know that are run by external trainers who don’t understand our culture?An app that we can download...
Why it’s time to stop trying to measure wellbeing programmes
Understandably anyone who talks to us about what we do is keen to know how they can measure the impact it will have, largely so they can understand how to justify expenditure of time and money. Up until recently we...
Why wellbeing programmes fail
One of the most obvious outcomes of the COVID pandemic has been that mental health has risen up the national agenda, as we have all found ourselves a little lower down the scale than we might be used to when it comes to our...
“But we have an App for that!”
Global consultants McKinsey & Company recently published a report that promotes the need for psychological safety within teams and wider organisations if they are to survive and ultimately prosper. The...