The wellbeing framework: a useful tool to support leaders and their teams in difficult times?
Good leadership right now starts with wellbeing – both yours and your team’s.
Leadership: how to prepare your workforce for the post-pandemic future
Don’t lose sight of your workforce’s future while you’re protecting their present.
The hidden risk of coronavirus: spotting the signs of employees suffering domestic violence
Five tips for line managers to spot the signs of domestic violence among their teams.
Five tips for HR during the most stressful ‘Stress Awareness Month’ on record
This year’s Stress Awareness Month has come in the midst of a global pandemic – and many HRs are feeling the strain. What steps can be taken to better cope?
How HR has changed more in the last 20 days than in 20 years
HR is arguably having to manage more change to strategically support businesses in the last 20 days than they have done in the last 20 years.
How to keep the business health and safety compliant during the Covid-19 pandemic
The mass office exodus has left poorly prepared home workers at risk of pain and injury. What can HR do?
Why you must not overlook financial wellbeing for older workers
Employers must get better at providing financial education for mature workers.
Six steps to a more holistic approach to employee financial wellbeing
In these uncertain times many employees will be worried about their financial wellbeing. How will you support them?
The AI workplace: how to balance employee trust and data security
We have the tech to collect more employee data than ever before – but should we?
How to help employees take care of their own wellbeing during a crisis
News about the coronavirus is on every news channel and media communication every day. We see a daily tally of countries affected and fatalities incurred. As a result, your employees will probably have a heightened awareness of the outbreak and the risks that they may be exposed to during their travel, which may be causing […]
Practising mindfulness through times of uncertainty
Embedding mindfulness practise into our daily lives can help us maintain good mental health during unsettling times.
Coronavirus: the role of the unexpected remote manager
The unfortunate truth is that the remote work that most people will experience right now – the homeworking forced by COVID-19 – is not the kind of remote work I advocate for. Transitioning to online collaboration is a thought-through process, a planned change in behaviour, which requires a change in mindset. Remote workers often choose […]
Four ways to support employee financial wellbeing during the coronavirus outbreak
As the UK focusses on delaying the spread of the coronavirus, many employees’ anxiety about the situation will be compounded by worrying about money. The impact the virus is having on the global economy and worry about having to take time off work means many employees will be concerned about the near future. At times […]
Mental ill health: should HR rebrand the ‘stress risk assessment’?
Stress risk assessments have been widely misunderstood.
Three ways to improve employee engagement with your new health and wellbeing strategy
When launching a new health and wellbeing strategy, you need to be proactive in the way you publicise it. After all, your workers won’t be able to access benefits if they don’t know they exist. Drawing upon our recent experience of delivering a new health and wellbeing strategy, we’ve outlined three ways we helped to […]
Eating disorders in the workplace: how can HR help?
Supporting employees who are experiencing eating disorders.
Coronavirus: six steps to prepare your organisation for a pandemic
There is still a good chance that with all local and international cooperation to stop the spread of the coronavirus that it won’t turn into a global pandemic like the H1N1 virus of 2009-2010, which killed more than 200,000 globally. But all organisations owe it to their customers, employees, partners, and others to prepare for […]
Employee wellbeing: how to support employees riding the waves of chronic pain
It’s time for employers to better understand chronic pain and take it more seriously.
Coronavirus: How should HR prepare?
With the headlines constantly updating us on the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus, employers should be on high alert and ready to act appropriately. Governments are attempting to contain the infection, which is believed to have emerged from illegally traded wildlife in a seafood market in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. […]
Wellbeing at work: the hidden cost of divorce and separation to business
Why don’t more employers offer support for divorced or separated workers?
