Resilient to What?
A few years ago I sat in on a resilience workshop I hadn’t designed. Good facilitator, good energy in the room, all the right breathing techniques. Afterwards, one of the attendees came up to me and said, quietly, “This was lovely. But my inbox will still have 400 emails in it tomorrow morning, and my […]
The wellbeing policy you have isn’t the workplace your people are living in.
I sat across from a senior leader who was genuinely proud of what his organisation had built. A wellbeing policy. An Employee Assistance Programme. A mental health first-aider in every department. On paper, it was a good picture. Then I spoke to his people. What I heard didn’t match what he’d described. Workloads that had […]
Most Workplace Wellbeing Spend Can’t Prove It Worked. Here’s How to Fix That.
Let me describe a ritual you may recognise. Once a year, an organisation books a motivational speaker. He is expensive, he is polished, and for ninety glorious minutes the conference hall believes in itself. There are tears. There is a standing ovation. There is a hashtag. And by the following Thursday, the only measurable outcome […]
What is ISO 45003 – and Does It Apply to Your Organisation?
Picture the scene. A Health and Safety Director sits at her desk, third coffee going cold, reading yet another article about the HSE “cracking down” on workplace stress. She has a wellbeing policy – a rather nice one, actually, with a lavender-coloured cover. She has a mental health first aider on every floor. And yet […]
Workplace Stress Is Now the Regulator’s Business. Is It Yours?
Stressed at work? There is a strong possibility that you are. And members of your team – stress has a trickle down effect, a stressed leader will transmit stress to their employees, and the ripple effect continues. But stress is no longer “just one of those things” that have to be tolerated. It is now […]