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Bridget Jelley
Winter Wellbeing 101

Keeping our minds resilient and strong is important no matter the time of year, but in the winter months, especially as our days grow shorter and the sun slants lower in the sky, we need to put in more effort.

Blogs
Bridget Jelley
Did you say 'feedback'?

I asked a group of individuals in a performance session recently, what comes to mind when they think about feedback.

Burnout

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When passion leads to burnout - Strategies for balance

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When passion leads to burnout - Strategies for balance

We've all heard the saying, "Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." But the reality is often quite the opposite. When you're passionate about your work, you might end up working harder and longer, pushing yourself to the brink of burnout. Passion-driven professions like teaching, healthcare, and leadership are especially at risk. So, how can you protect your well-being while still doing what you love? Recognizing burnout, taking regular breaks, and incorporating play into your work are just a few steps that can help.

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How to be a good boss

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How to be a good boss

Every good leader has been a bad boss at some point.

The truth is, we’re all a mixture of good and bad qualities and leadership often falls upon us by accident.

Managers - be they good leaders, or bad bosses - have a profound impact on their teams.

So what makes a bad boss, and what makes a good leader?

How can bad bosses become good leaders?

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How to Be Happy at Work

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How to Be Happy at Work

Experiencing happiness at work isn’t a matter of stumbling upon the profession that is ‘perfect’ for us and then riding that wave of joy into retirement.

Rather, like wellbeing, happiness is made up of a bunch of different components that can be experienced in many different jobs and workplaces.

So what are the key factors that we can apply to different jobs to have a better chance at finding happiness at work?

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Do you need a Circuit Breaker?

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Do you need a Circuit Breaker?

Circuit breakers are a simple solution to a potentially deadly and costly problem. When a circuit trips, we simply open the fuse box, flick a switch, and providing there is no deeper fault going on, we reset the system.

Now, imagine if we could do this with our brains. How much potential damage to our mental and physical health could we prevent if we had an automated switch that simply cut off the power to our unhelpful thought patterns before they escalated to breaking point?

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What is Psychological Well-being at Work?

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What is Psychological Well-being at Work?

Most people are familiar with the terms burnout and stress, and have an understanding of what poor workplace mental health looks like. But what is it that we are aiming for? What does a psychologically ‘well’ workplace look like?

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How to Talk About Mental Health at Work

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How to Talk About Mental Health at Work

Mental Health - we all have it, and yet it can be difficult to talk about, especially at work.

October 10th 2023 is World Mental Health day and the theme this year is ‘Mental Health is a universal human right.’

How do you actually bring up the topic? Or, if someone else lets you know they’re struggling, how should you reply?

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How to Protect Yourself From Burning Out (Without Doing Yoga)

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How to Protect Yourself From Burning Out (Without Doing Yoga)

In our last blog we covered how to identify burnout risks, and how to protect yourself at the recruitment stage by spotting which organisations or job roles might pose a high risk to individuals.

In this blog, we will cover some of the steps that individuals can take to lower their burnout risk and protect their mental health at work when they find themselves in a job role or organisation that may present a higher risk.

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How to avoid burn-out and keep your spark alight

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How to avoid burn-out and keep your spark alight

Perhaps the best thing an individual can do to avoid burn-out is to work for an organisation that has a robust Psychosocial Risk Management plan in place to support positive workplace mental health outcomes and protect their workers from chronic stress.

But how can you choose the right job? And what other practical steps can individuals take to protect themselves from burnout and feel good at work?

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Mental Health Tips for Working Parents in the School Holidays

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Mental Health Tips for Working Parents in the School Holidays

The school holiday / work juggle struggle is real.

Whether you are a working parent managing stress, or you wish you had more time to spend with your kids, this blog covers mental health tips to help you stay grounded and anxiety-free at work and home during the school holidays.

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How to Work through Worry

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How to Work through Worry

Worrying can impact our mental health at work significantly, and has been the subject of sage advice for centuries.

Inspirational quotes about improving your mental health by simply ‘not worrying’ are easy to find, but much more difficult to put into practise.

Can you control worrying by simply choosing not to worry? And if so, how?

In this blog we will explain in simple terms what worry is, how you can control worrying, and how you can work and live your life despite having things to worry about.

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Can AI Prevent Burnout?

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Can AI Prevent Burnout?

Burnout: a state of mental and physical exhaustion, characterised by feelings of cynicism, depletion and distance from our work.

AI: the simulation of human intelligence by machines, and used for everything from data analysis to customer service and even creating art and writing romance novels.

Can Artificial Intelligence help us to beat burnout, and regain our sense of humanity at work?

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How Can We Control Work-Related Stress?

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How Can We Control Work-Related Stress?

Stress: so ubiquitous, the idea of preventing it altogether might seem a bit like trying to hold back an incoming tide.

But stress doesn’t need to be an inevitable part of life, and it definitely doesn’t need to be an inevitable part of work.

How can employers control work-related stress?

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

Burnout: the imagery in that word is evocative, and perhaps one reason why the term has become popular. Why? Because the picture that burnout conjures is so very much like the experience of it.

Burned out individuals keep going, like flames across a landscape, until they run out of fuel entirely and have absolutely nothing left to give. Not one spark remains. They are quite literally ‘burned out.’

How can we tell the difference, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

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Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

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Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

During a panel discussion of women leaders that I recently attended, the panelists were asked ‘what do you consider to be your biggest achievement?’

Without exception, every panelist responded ‘just surviving.’ One added ‘just managing to get to where she was.’ They gave the sense of having managed to move forward and reach their goals, but of having to perpetually push through a current, whilst dragging a parachute, to do so.

What was holding them back and how can we recognise gender discrimination in the modern workplace?

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One Way to Manage Psychosocial Hazards for Women in the Workplace

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One Way to Manage Psychosocial Hazards for Women in the Workplace

International Women’s Day 2023 has been and gone but the challenges that women face to experiencing equity in the workplace remain.

What are those challenges, and what would an environment that successfully controls for psychosocial hazards at work that particularly impact women look like?