What is the impact of stress on business performance? Managing stress is a major challenge for the UK workforce and the latest HSE statistics show the scale of the problem with 12.8 million working days lost due to work-related stress, [...]
How to increase team performance using employee engagement strategies Every business leader and manager wants to improve the performance of their teams in one way or another, be that achieving higher customer satisfaction scores, improving safety metrics or simply making [...]
Going from reacting to responding Practising mindfulness is widely recognised to have a positive effect on our health and wellbeing. This simple truth is supported by the documented experiences of countless generations of people from cultures across the globe. The [...]
Adaptability and the resilient mindset In our recent blog article ‘How to be more resilient’ we presented a five-step plan to help you get started on the way to developing a resilient mindset. The first step in this plan is [...]
What is the link between leaders’ behaviour and employee stress and wellbeing? It is widely recognised that leaders, and in particular managers and supervisors, set the tone of the work group. It follows then that if these individuals are suffering [...]
Measuring wellbeing How do you measure wellbeing? What wellbeing indicators are the most useful? These are two questions often asked by business leaders and managers looking to implement wellbeing initiatives in their organisations. It is widely accepted that promoting wellbeing [...]
The link between employee engagement and business results is clear to see. Data from market research organisations like Gallup and Best Companies show that employee engagement is correlated to stock market performance, and the truth is, this link has been [...]
Learning how to be more resilient is a skill that benefits everyone in your company equally. But what exactly is resilience and how can you harness it to work for you? Resilience is about being adaptable. It’s about being able [...]
The very real issue of dealing with stress at work is a common management conundrum. In 2017/18, stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 57% of working days lost due to ill health. http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress.pdf We’ve all been stressed at [...]
What is wellbeing? Most of us have heard about ‘wellbeing at work’. It is a beautifully circular concept – look after the health of your staff and they will look after the health of your business. Helping your people to [...]