A workplace wellbeing conversation with… Alex Hyde- Director at BIE Executive, an executive search firm
How are you feeling today on a scale of 1-10 and why? Today I’m a 7/10 and can be confident when answering that question! I use a mental health tracking tool called Form which I try to use every day before work to find out where I am at that
How are you, really?
The pandemic has exposed our global mental health crisis more than ever. For some people it has alleviated stressors around commuting, lack of time or distraction in the office for example, but for others it has exacerbated existing stressors or created new ones. The trouble with mental health is that it
How Workplaces Can Do Their Part To Support Employees & Their Families During The UK’s Growing Addiction Crisis
This week it has been widely documented in the news about the rise in alcohol consumption since the start of lockdown. The number of “high risk” drinkers has nearly doubled to 8.4 million since lockdown began as well as thousands more have sought help for addiction to opiates according to
Five tips on how to recruit & manage a team of wellbeing champions in your organisation
As discussed in last week’s blog, we now have evidence from studies supporting what we have observed time and again, that internal wellbeing champions/advocates/heroes driving the wellbeing agenda will result in a much higher rate of engagement, productivity and ultimately reduce stress and burnout. There are many things to consider when
How To Guarantee Engagement In Workplace Wellbeing
We have started to see the insights come in from across the world about the impact COVID has had and continues to have on our health and wellbeing. According to a recent survey by Perkbox, emotional health has been hit the hardest with 58% of people feeling the negative ramifications
Rise Well @ Home
I was in two minds whether to develop this new product because I was acutely aware of many businesses making cuts, furloughing people and quite frankly trying to survive as well as the other businesses who are lucky enough to be trading as normal or those who are resilient enough
Why it has taken a global pandemic to get people talking about their feelings
I have been heartened by the increase in people talking about their feelings over the past month or so of lockdown. Business conversations have been open, honest and become the norm. Notably, more men have opened up about how they are feeling than I have ever witnessed before, which is
A Short Wellbeing Guide to Working from Home During the Corona Virus
We are undoubtedly experiencing an unprecedented time of uncertainty and things are changing by the hour. Many of us are experiencing fear, upset and panic. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t been impacted by this virus in some way, whether that has been physically by having the virus
How To Survive The Return To Work After Christmas
Your alarm goes off at 6am, it is Monday morning, dark outside and you are faced with getting on a packed train and going back to work, for a whole year, after a fun festive break. Where did the time vanish? Where did all my money go?!! Why do my