Enhancing MHFA with Continued Learning: The Value of Bonus Study Courses
Introduction The new syllabus Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) courses have proven to be valuable in increasing mental health awareness and crisis intervention skills. Our experience delivering MHFA courses has taught us...
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...
When does a mental illness become a disability?
In this article we unpack the key highlights from a recent workshop with our Associate Disability and Workplace Assessment Specialist, Ramin Salehi. Ramin, who has conducted over 10,000 workplace assessments discussed...
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...