All Mental health resilience articles – Page 42
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ArticleThe Highland Council introduces mental health platform for teachers
The Highland Council has introduced a new support package to improve the mental health of teachers throughout the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The organisation partnered with Treehouse of Knowledge to support the wellbeing of its staff in light of recent lockdown restrictions. From 18 January 2021, teachers across 200 Highland schools will ...
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Supplier articleAre you ready to support your staff with COVID-related mental health concerns?
Over ten months into the COVID pandemic and with predictions of a forthcoming “tsunami” of mental health issues as a result, are employers and other organisations ready to respond? Have they looked at their offer for employees and asked themselves, is this enough? Do they have the digital tools that ...
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Supplier articleEmotional wellbeing: Practical actions for the latest lockdown
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexJoin us as we demonstrate the practical actions you can take (right now!) to support your people in Lockdown 3. Paul McGregor, Founder of Everymind at Work, will share his insights into how employers can proactively support their people, and how employees can look inwards ...
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Supplier articleWould You Choose to Work with People Who Don't Trust You?
It may seem like an odd question. But many companies fail to treat employees as if they are genuinely trusted. And in return, many employees are unconvinced that their leaders are trustworthy.This mutual disharmony can have serious ramifications for corporate culture, turnover of employees, and financial performance.Making workplace trust a ...
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Article45% of employees do not feel supported by their employer
Under half (45%) of staff believe that their employer is not doing enough to support them, according to research by Tiger Recruitment.The organisation's Salary and Benefits Review 2021, which surveyed 2,126 employees in the UK, found that more than half (51%) of respondents believe their employer could have communicated their ...
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Article28% of staff say their mental health has declined due to Covid-19
Around one-quarter (28%) of employees say that their mental health has declined as a result of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, according to research by Wade Macdonald.The study, which was released this month (January) and surveyed 415 respondents, revealed that 44% of staff are finding working from home much harder – ...
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ArticleScottish school staff lose 550,000 working days due to mental health
Approximately 550,00 school staff days in Scotland have been lost due to mental health reasons since April 2017, according to analysis from political party Scottish Liberal Democrats.The statistics, accumulated from 25 of Scotland's 32 local authorities, found that the number of staff days lost has risen from 139,979 in 2017-18, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Snowflake launches behavioural health app to support employees' mental health
Snowflake has introduced a behavioural health coaching app to support its employees with their mental health.The app, Ginger, provides Snowflake’s international staff members and their families with a programme that can offer support with a range of issues, including stress, anxiety, relationship matters or coaching on specific topics such as ...
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Supplier articleWhat does Long Covid support for employees look like?
By Colin Hawes, Head of Claims , Generali UK Employee BenefitsThe Coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the globe may in fact constitute a second and more long term illness to follow in its wake, according to recent research. Long Covid is a term being increasingly used to describe illness in people ...
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Supplier articleShould workplace benefits be revised amidst the ‘new way of life’?
A lot has changed since our simpler existence pre-March 2020.; this year life has been unimaginably different with occurrences that no one could have ever predicted, but of course with the bad, has come a substantial amount of good too. Society has been forced to take a ...
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ArticleUnlimited provides mental health training for staff
Marketing and advertising agency Unlimited has provided mental health training for all its employees to increase awareness and support the wellbeing of staff.Its 'My Mind Matters' programme will equip staff with the tools to support employees if they are showing signs of struggling with mental health issues included action plans, ...
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Article42% of employees desire less work-related stress in 2021
Just under half (42%) of employees wish to experience less stress at work during 2021, according to research by PayFit.Its report, How UK HR priorities have evolved during the pandemic, which surveyed 2,002 UK workers, also found that 85% have experienced work-related worries since the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic took hold ...
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Supplier articleHow to make your global mental wellbeing platform work better
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing, Generali Employee Benefits UKIt might have worked for Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams but generally in life it isn’t a given that “if you build it, he will come”: he/she/they it really doesn’t matter: we’re all different and ...
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Article42% have seen staff leave due to lack of mental health support
Just under half (42%) of employers have experienced an employee leaving their organisation because they felt their mental wellbeing was not being cared for, according to research by Benenden Health.Its survey of 1,008 UK non-furloughed employees, and 1,003 business owners and directors also found that a quarter (25%) of respondents ...
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Supplier articleThe future of workplace health
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, Benefex.In this session we welcome back Harry Bliss, Co-Founder of Champion Health, who was a huge hit at the Benefex Forum in February. Harry joins me to discuss the future of workplace health; looking at how businesses can begin to plan a medium-term strategy for ...
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Supplier articleHow to scale Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives
By Leah Ben-Ami, Director of Learning at C SpaceThe pandemic and the racial injustice protests stemming from the murder of George Floyd – in my own hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota – really accelerated and reprioritised our DEI efforts on a global scale. Within a month we had to have some ...
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Case StudiesRoyal Mail's mental health first aid programme aims to increase awareness and decrease stigma
Royal Mail Group introduced a mental health first aid programme to better support the wellbeing of its 140,000 staff.Helping employees look after their wellbeing is a key part of its overall healthcare strategy. In June 2018, the organisation began working with Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA) to provide employee ...
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AnalysisWhat attributes are required for a workplace mental health ambassador?
Need to know: Taking a proactive approach and investing in employees' mental wellbeing has become a key issue for many employers.Employers must understand the role and responsiblities of a mental health ambassador to appoint the most appropriate people to champion an environment of good mental health.A mental health ambassador should ...
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Supplier articleThe management of mental health at work
We were recently introduced to Dr Maria Hudson of Essex Business School, who published an in depth study into the management of mental health at work, which was commissioned by ACAS (Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service) in 2016. Here is a summary of some of the key ...