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Hold the Bread: Delivering Feedback with Compassion (and no sandwich in sight)

Hold the Bread: Delivering Feedback with Compassion (and no sandwich in sight)

Anyone can deliver good news effectively. But life is full of things that don’t go to plan. Even the best employee will make mistakes, or need coaching to improve. No one is immune from economic or political changes that impact the workplace and redundancy or a necessary but unwelcome policy change could impact any of us at any time.

Play, Fun and Flow: What does Mental Fitness look like in 2022?

Play, Fun and Flow: What does Mental Fitness look like in 2022?

For 2022 I have a new proposition.

Forget ‘getting the hard stuff’ done. Postpone your frogs, or just chuck them straight into your out tray and let them croak. Grasp joy wherever you can get it, grab it as soon as you can, and hold onto it for as long as possible.

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... IS RESILIENCE

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... IS RESILIENCE

Christmas-time brings with it added pressures and stressors that are unique to celebratory events and can pile on top of an already difficult year. Even the hardiest person can feel their resilience wane in the last weeks of December.

Here are some extra, Christmas-themed resilience tricks that may help you to get through to January. Whether you intend to go full ‘Buddy the Elf’ 100% festive, or pare-back your celebrations this year, these tips may help.

ISO 45003: International Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

Not the most sexy topic – at least not on the surface – but we reckon there is something very attractive about companies who demonstrate their care for employee welfare. And so do job seekers.

It is therefore with great pleasure that we can share the impending June 2021 release of the first International Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (ISO 45003).

2020 New-Zealand Mental Health Overview

It is clear that while progress is being made toward addressing mental health in New-Zealand, there is still a long way to go. Mental health exists on a continuum - we are not either mentally healthy, or mentally ill, yet the words mental health still hold connotations to mental illness for many. The reality is that most of us at some stage in our lives will experience depression or severe psychological distress.