Dr Pippa Grange answers some of our questions before her keynote at The Good Day at Work Conversation 2019
Dr Pippa Grange answers some of our questions before her keynote at The Good Day at Work Conversation 2019 We’re lucky enough to have Pippa Grange appearing as a keynote at this year’s Good Day at Work Conversation in Manchester on September 17th. She’s the FA’s Head of People and Team Development and the person widely credited with playing a key role in the England football team’s cultural and performance turnaround at the Russia 2018 World Cup. As a taster ahead of next week’s event we…
Part 2 – Personalising Mental Health and Wellbeing: Top 3 tips for embracing personalisation to get workplace mental health and wellbeing right
Personalising Mental Health and Wellbeing: HR’s biggest challenge yet? Part 2: Cary’s Top 3 tips for embracing personalisation to get workplace mental health and wellbeing right I’ve spent much of my working life thinking about the challenge here, for organisations in particular. I’ve been asked many times over the years for the top 3 things I’d recommend organisations focus on to get mental health and wellbeing right. Of course, the context changes over…
Personal Stories
Personal stories are the ones that make the biggest impact, and this is never truer than when talking about mental health and wellbeing. Initiatives such as Mental Health Awareness week have long promoted the fact that initiating a dialogue can have a tremendous effect, particularly within the workplace. However, tackling this subject can be difficult. Employees can be left wondering whether discussing mental health with their seniors could affect their job security, perception by colleagues,…
Wellbeing: The State of the Nation
Last month, we teased you with some headlines from our Wellbeing Survey. Now it’s time to dig a little deeper into these headlines and understand what this represents based on our experience of working to create a culture of wellbeing in organisations in the UK. The data from 95 client organisations has given us some useful insight into the ‘State of the Nation’ when it comes to wellbeing. 81% reported that the engagement to health and wellbeing in their organisation is patchy or poor…
Time to Talk Day 2019
As the name suggests, businesses, schools and communities across the UK are all encouraged to set aside time to help people start talking. Not just talking about anything and everything, though, but about one thing in particular: mental health. As a topic of conversation, however, it’s still quite taboo. Many people are afraid to talk about their experiences struggling with mental health issues (be it their own or those of a loved one) due to deep-rooted cultural assumptions that such illnesses…
Forgetting Things At Work? This Could Be Why
As long as you can remember (which is really far back, by the way), people have always told you you’ve got a great memory. You can remember what Janet in accounts was wearing the first time you met her, and which excuse Jack in HR gave the first time he was sick. But recently you’ve found that your memory’s slipping. You’ve even started writing things down in a bid to get on top of things, but you still forget to get actually them done. Not only is this…
The Shape Of Our Story: Kurt Vonnegut Plots The Journey Of Individual Wellbeing
The author Kurt Vonnegut was a man with a singular and unique view of the world. Not just in his stories, either; his literary theories are similarly simple at face value, but gently unfurl to reveal deeper meaning and undercurrents of social commentary. The man himself called one particular theory, his rejected master’s thesis on the shapes of stories, his “prettiest” contribution to culture. Vonnegut’s idea is that the main character within any story lives through positive and…
Wearable tech in the workplace
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 18 months you’ll have noticed that the wave of wearable technology is about to break into the mainstream at any moment. Analysts agree that sales will easily climb past 100 million units by the end of this year as the likes of Apple and Microsoft look to corner a rapidly expanding market. But what exactly is taking the idea beyond the preserve of tech nerds and fitness freaks? It’s simple. The need for individuals and organisations to gain a…
The Distraction Trap – 5 top tips for digital wellbeing at work
How often do you check your smartphone? Does it join you on the sofa, at dinner, or even in bed? It wasn’t so long ago – relatively – that we were learning how to switch on our first mobile phones. Yet fast-forward through a few years of leaping technology advances, and many of us have forgotten where the off button is. Being constantly connected is a serious issue that has left many of us feeling overwhelmed, drained and stressed. Our health and productivity have started to…
Forget the tech – HR 2.0 can give new meaning to our work and lives
When considering the HR Carnival theme of ‘beginnings’, social media may seem like a strange choice of topic. Even Generation Y’s grandparents have now embraced Twitter – definitive proof that the concept isn’t exactly in its infancy. In fact, I’d go as far as saying that the concept of social media now feels like a maturing part of the fabric of everyday work and home life. Perhaps that’s because it’s the perfect platform to discuss..well, itself, in the form of ever increasing circles of…
