What should modern leadership development look like?
Blaire Palmer has been in the leadership development field for nearly 2 decades. And in that time she’s experienced plenty of fads. But rarely has she come across leadership development that really works. In this two-part series Blaire busts some myths about leadership development and offers some alternatives that might actually create more leadership. If […]
Great Place to Work announces best workplaces of 2017
Every year, the Great Workplaces Special Report profiles the UK’s top workplaces for employee engagement and gives insight into how best-performing organisations are pushing the boundaries in terms of connecting with their workplaces and driving performance through innovative engagement and people management. This year’s report points to large discrepancies between companies appearing on the Best Workplaces list and […]
The Madness of Kings: leadership, hyper-masculinity & mental health
If you had a choice to return to Earth after this lifetime, and, while resting on your celestial cloud, were given a menu of gender, racial and sexual orientation preferences to choose from, what would you pick for your next time around? Of course, approaching this logically, received wisdom would tell you to check the […]
Gig economy: the equality challenge?
This article was co-authored by Sean Dempsey, Partner, Lewis Silkin LLP and David Hopper, Associate, Lewis Silkin LLP. The onward march of technology and the “gig economy” is re-shaping the workplace with the move away from traditional “9-to-5” jobs and towards technology-enabled “gigging” for a multiplicity of work providers at any one time. An authoritative study published […]
Why we need simplicity to cope with complexity – mindfulness in business life
This article was written by Parham Vasaiely, Feature Strategy and Engineering Manager of Autonomous Vehicles at Jaguar Land Rover. He is the chair of the JLR Mindfulness Programme. Before joining JLR, he worked at Airbus, as well as a management consultant in Switzerland. Parham is part of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Mindfulness Initiative. Parham will […]
“If you feel stuck in a rut and are not developing on a daily basis, it’s up to you to drive change.”
We’re always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of HR throws at them. We’ve got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us through an average day? Want to […]
“Suffering in silence is such a hard thing to bare and generates self-stigmatisation.”
Colin Minto is the founder of APeopleBusiness, a new organisation set up to celebrate the capabilities, skills and contribution of people with mental difference in the workplace, and equipping organisations, leaders and colleagues to ‘open up’ and harness the productivity it brings. Colin set up the business after ‘going public’ with his struggles with OCD following a […]
Building the case for mindfulness in the workplace
In October 2016, the UK’s All-Parliamentary Group published a second report to build the case for mindfulness in the workplace. This article shares some of the reports key findings and anecdotes from case studies. But first, let’s explore what mindfulness is and why there’s such a growing trend in using mindfulness to improve wellbeing in […]
Are mental health apps actually any good?
It’s estimated that 1 in 6 people will experience a common mental health problem each week, including depression and anxiety. 1 in 5 will have thought about taking their own life at some point, with 1 in 15 having made an attempt. There’s increasing scientific evidence that work itself can be beneficial for someone’s mental […]
Are competing priorities impacting your health?
Everyone can recognise that familiar tug of war inside us; go out or stay in and catch up on work, make a fresh dinner for the kids or finish catching up on e-mails; work late or go to the gym? These are common everyday dilemmas we all face but have you ever stopped to consider […]
Round-up: 7 popular articles from our mental health month
Our mental health focus looks at mental health with a spotlight from very different angles! Here are seven articles we’ve run and why they’re an essential read if you’re looking to take action on mental health in your organisation. 1. Why tackling absenteeism could hike presenteeism Sickness monitoring, raising awareness of sickness policies and techniques […]
Presenteeism in academics: a shift to the twilight zone
This article looks and when and why academics in the UK work while they’re ill and the systemic factors at play. It pulls together a concept called the ‘twilight zone’ of work and looks at the effects of presenteeism on academics. It was written by Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the University of […]
Presenteeism in prison officers: a case study in pressure
This article looks at the degree of presenteeism in UK prison officers and the reasons prison officers give for working while sick. It also looks at the impact of presenteeism on UK prisons. It was written by Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire, Andrew Clements, a lecturer in organisational psychology […]
Tackling absenteeism could increase presenteeism: what can be done?
This article looks at why techniques for reducing absenteeism can encourage presenteeism. Organisations need to focus on reducing the punitive parts of absenteeism policies if they want positive action on presenteeism. It was written by Andrew Clements, a lecturer in organisational psychology at the University of Bedfordshire, Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the […]
5 steps to support mental wellbeing in the workplace
I am David Brudö, CEO and Co-Founder of personal development and mental wellbeing app Remente. I first started my own business in e-commerce a few years ago, but as much joy as you get from running your own business, it can be stressful and demanding My work was all-consuming and I wasn’t prepared for the […]
A personal story of reaching breaking at work
David Brudö is co-founder of mental health app Remente. Having spent almost my whole professional career as an entrepreneur in a high work pace environment – where the only certainty is that you don’t know what tomorrow holds – I felt that at one point something started to really feel wrong. I began lacking motivation […]
How to hang onto female talent – the problem of the ‘pinched middle’
For over 100 years International Women’s Day has celebrated the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, but today has also been used as a call to action for accelerating gender parity in the workplace, across all industry sectors, throughout the world. Like many other industries, management consultancies are struggling to retain women and […]
The myth of the male versus female brain
On International Women’s Day it seemed fitting to share some new science on the male and female brain. There is a common belief that men and women have different brains but a recent meta-analysis is calling this belief into question. A meta-analysis is a statistical approach for combining the results of multiple studies, in this […]
“The wellbeing field is so fast changing that there is always something new & interesting to discuss.”
We're always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of HR throws at them. We've got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us throw an average day? […]
How an effective EAP can help you anytime, anywhere
One in four adults in the UK are diagnosed with at least one mental health problem each year. This statistic may be surprising, but it has caused organisations to care more about mental health in the workplace. With stress levels rising amongst UK workers, organisations have a responsibility to look after their staff and this is where […]