A Guide to Using Emotional Release in your Life.
Utilising emotional release in your everyday life If you have been suffering from mental health conditions, from anxiety to depression to post-traumatic stress, you have no doubt been researching many different treatment options to try and overcome the challenging associated symptoms. If you go to your doctor’s surgery, they will typically suggest taking some type […]
National Work Life Week
The team at Awbery are being encouraged to think about how to improve the balance between home life and the office as part of National Work Life Week (2-6 October 2017). We are supporting the national campaign by charity Working Families, with a programme of fun and active daily themes throughout the Week that are […]
The real workplace experience employees crave
Business leaders would be mistaken to think that unlimited free food, an indoor gym, and a monthly table tennis tournament are top requirements for millennials. Though they are certainly office gimmicks workers appreciate, these aren’t the finite offers keeping employees happy. Below we take a look at the world of the worker experience, examining how […]
Chairing meetings – what does a strong chair look like?
Let’s be honest – we’ve all been to meetings that have added no value to our day. Surveys on how much time, energy and resentment badly run meetings cost us range from horrifying figures of anywhere between 35-50% of our time. Think of the opportunities lost from having half your working week wasted in unproductive […]
Dealing With Employee Depression in The Workplace
In a study involving 8 countries, it was discovered that workplace depression cost businesses just under 250 billion US dollars in one year. According to research fellow at the London school of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko, the cost is due both to absenteeism and lowered productivity. The same study notes that in […]
Disability Confident: what is the future of this scheme?
November 2017 will mark the first anniversary of the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. In its first 12 months the scheme has come a long way. There are already almost 5,000 Disability Confident organisations across the UK, and CIPD research suggests that employers will benefit from the new and innovative ideas that disabled employees can bring […]
How to be digitally mindful: achieve productivity wins and still stay with yourself
Today the digitally-driven professional fights with a conflicting concern for our mindfulness and for a holistic treatment of self and wellbeing. These personal and role tides seem at odds. With my own daytime desperately digital and yet a mindful reading list (accompanied dutifully by gorgeous candle!) by the bed, it occurred to me that the […]
Why ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ is damaging the workplace
As an employer or manager, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure that your staff or team is happy and healthy. For a long time there has been stigma surrounding the importance of mental health equalling that of physical health; the ‘Keep Calm and Carry on’ ethos of World War II is so ingrained […]
Top tips to motivate your team this summer
With the current turmoil in the UK as a result of Brexit and general uncertainty in the workplace, especially for EU workers, it’s more important than ever before for businesses to offer reassurance to their employees. Especially over the summer, lots of people will be taking holidays, and when they arrive back at work, they’re likely […]
Credit scores: how employers can help employees improve it
With all the big changes in the current political and economic climate, it’s fair to say that millions of employees are feeling a very large and painful financial pinch. In fact, in a survey of over 10,000 employees and 500 employers, 33% of employees said that financial worries are their biggest concern, after health (29%) […]
The debt stigma – how trainers can help
There is a stigma in UK workplaces that employers are rarely tackling, but must. It focuses on the vast levels of debt that millions of UK employees are carrying and which is shown, through mounting evidence, to have a debilitating impact on an employee’s wellbeing, their work and, as a consequence, a businesses’ overall productivity. […]
Why HR needs to support leaders to take a full break from the office
Taking time for a proper break and switching off from work is vital for our mental health, but why are so many leaders bad at doing it? Did you notice if the busy leaders you support looked refreshed after their holiday? This is vital for organisational health because we know the damage if leaders in terms of say […]
“I am generally a satisfied and positive person, but I know that I need to keep a fine balance between improvement and complacency.”
We’re always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of L&D throws at them. We’ve got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us through an average day? […]
A healthy view of learning
When we talk about leadership, when look towards engaging hearts and minds and empowering people to deliver of their best what do we really mean? We may be forgiven for focusing our efforts solely on helping people in order that they can deliver great business outcomes but is that really the best approach? Let’s take […]
Is your workplace ready for the ‘Prince Harry effect’?
By talking about the mental health issues he suffered after the death of his mother, Prince Harry has done more to destigmatise mental health than years of campaigning. Although the Daily Mail would have us believe that this is a bad thing – calling for an end to ‘emotional incontinence’ and a return to the […]
A day in the life of: “I desperately want them to do well, but know I can’t give them the answer.”
We’re always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of L&D throws at them. We’ve got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us through an average day? […]
5 elements of successful mindfulness
Mindfulness is currently a hot buzzword in business thanks to proven research that a more mindful culture will help to drive high levels of agility, retention, talent development, customer service and innovation. It also has many individual benefits for employees, such as sharpening your memory, focus and improving your resilience. But what do L&Ds need […]
Reducing L&D overwhelm and simplify your workplace
Reducing the overwhelm Recent studies by Deloitte* on human capital trends have highlighted that over two-thirds of organisations identified issues with the “overwhelmed employee”. More technology and too much access to employees being the key drivers. So, what does this mean for the L&D department? Let’s first think about the overwhelm the L&D team may […]
Conflict management: Are competing priorities affecting your health?
Everyone can recognise that familiar tug of war inside us; go out or stay in and catch up on work, make a fresh dinner for the kids or finish catching up on e-mails; work late or go to the gym? These are common everyday dilemmas we all face but have you ever stopped to consider […]
Rewriting wellbeing: A creative addition to your wellbeing strategy
The latest estimates from the HSE show that cases of work related stress have significantly increased by 224,000 since last year. The cause cited? workload tight deadlines poor management The statistics make grim reading. More than ever, creating the optimum conditions for wellbeing, an environment for employees to flourish rather than flounder, is a critical […]
