High levels of debt, including credit card debt, student loans, and personal loans, can lead to feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. So, this Stress Awareness Month Tara Askham, our Financial Wellbeing expert share her top tips for reducing stress caused by debt.
Stress awareness for leaders. As a leader you are a role model, your people will be looking at you for cues on how to behave under pressure. You set the standards of what is expected and accepted. So, if you want your teams to be able to perform well under pressure, to be productive and healthy you have to show them how it is done!
Access our free 6-week mindfulness challenge to help you manage pressure, prevent stress and build mindfulness. And find out why our founder, Fiona, will also be taking on the challenge!
There is an increasing awareness that Mental Health First Aid is as important as a Fire Marshal or ‘traditional’ First Aider. We run Mental Health First Aid courses.
Find out more about our new, interactive ‘Wellbeing Matters’ course for people managers developed in conjunction with drama-based learning consultants Kane McHale.
An audio guide on how to use the 3 part sentence to say “No”. This accompanies the article “Using Emotional Intelligence to say no”.
Privacy; the opportunity to reflect and consolidate our experience, is crucial and it seems very hard to come by at the moment
Creating a learning environment in your workplace that is healthy, encourages employee wellbeing and enhances performance.
We all know that nutrition plays a huge part in physical wellbeing but good nutrition is also vital for our emotional and psychological wellbeing. Listen to Fiona’s interview with Leonie Wright of EatWright as they discuss how to improve your health and wellbeing through the right foods.
We spend approximately a third of our lives sleeping and it is as vital to us as breathing and eating. So unsurprisingly it has a huge impact on our overall wellbeing. Listen now to Fiona’s interview with Rachel McGuiness of Wake Up With Zest for Surrey Hills Radio. Rachel shares a plethora of tips to help you get a great night’s sleep.
Time to Talk day on the 7th Feb encourages us all to take a little time to talk to our colleagues, direct reports or friends and have a conversation about Mental Health.
Do you ever say to yourself "I am not in the mood for this today?" or "What do I feel like working on now?" You may already instinctively know that our emotions affect how we think. But do you know how to get the best out of this? Here's our latest guide on how to use #EmotionalIntelligence in practical ways. This one is all about something called “Mood Task Match”.
Resilience can be defined as “the ability to bounce back, to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness” and “the ability to minimise the effect of life’s difficulties on us”. So how can resilience training help your employees and your business?
If you work in HR or Learning & Development, it’s likely that you’ve heard about mindfulness and its impact on wellbeing at work. Or maybe you're a leader or manager of people and you’ve tried it for yourself? But are you 100% clear on exactly what it is or how it can help your employees and your business?
Procrastination. We’ve all experienced it at one time or another. We leave writing that report until the very last minute. Repeatedly putting it off until we have no choice but to cobble something together. We’ve all had days when we’ve decided that now is the best time to tidy our desks instead of preparing those presentation slides that are due this week (‘I’m helping myself get more organised so that I can really focus on the slides when I do create them…’). According to ‘Psychology Today’ 20% of us “chronically avoid tasks and deliberately look for distractions”.
A reluctance to say ‘no’ can leave us feeling anxious and frustrated. The impact of always saying ‘yes’ can lead to increased and often unmanageable workloads resulting in long hours, missed lunches and extra pressure. This additional pressure can then lead to stress and more anxiety. Constantly saying ‘yes’ to requests can make us berate ourselves for being “weak”, verbally kicking ourselves when we wish we had spoken up. This is not good for our self-esteem and is damaging for our mental and emotional health. Long-term if we continue to always say ‘yes’, regardless of what we really want, it can lead to us being taken advantage of and manipulated.