Tagged with well-being

Stress back on the agenda?

Stress back on the agenda?

The mental health charity MIND says that stress and mental health have become taboo subjects in the workplace. It estimates that with greater awareness and better support businesses could save a third of the £26 billion lost each year to sickness absence and lost productivity. Continue reading »

Resilient Leadership

Over the years there have been many approaches to leadership with trait theories, style theories, functional models, situational/contingency models, transactional/transformational theories, ideas about biological and personality characteristics, and more recently emotional intelligence competencies.
Difficult times require exceptional leaders who have integrity and are resilient.
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Rituals engage staff

It’s no surprise that employee engagement is a hot topic right now in the wake of cutbacks, pay freezes, and redundancies (and the survivor guilt and loss of productivity that goes with that). According to a Towers Perrin worldwide survey (2007), only 21% of employees feeling fully engaged, compared to almost twice as many feeling … Continue reading »