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...
Why I deleted my wellbeing app
As a millennial, I’m big fan of technology and consider myself a ‘digital native’. The advent of internet friendly mobile and tablet smart devices means that never has there been so much available knowledge and...
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...
Resilient leadership versus crisis leadership – some considerations
Those of you who know me will recognise that I have a habit of resorting to Latin phrases or poetry for inspiration. So I make no apologies for sharing with you a few lines from Rudyard Kipling’s immortal poem “If”,...