We are celebrating Platty Jubes this weekend in the UK – the Queen’s Platinum Jublilee.
Seventy years of reign on the throne.
Whatever your thoughts on the monarchy, I think we can all agree that’s a long-ass time to be in the same job. Not to mention a long time to be working at all. Lizzy is 96 and still at it.
It raises an important question. How do you know when to play it like Elizabeth II and stick it out for the long haul, or make like Meghan and Harry and get the hell out of Dodge?
“Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” or so the old saying goes.
Anyone who runs their own business, or whose art is also their work, will tell you that if you do what you love, you will work every hour that God gives and then try to squeeze in a few more.
It is easy to assume that if you enjoy your work, you will be safe from burnout. But in fact, paradoxically, burn-out is associated with purpose-driven work.
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.
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.
When I was younger, making friends was easy. I wasn’t a ‘popular kid’ at school by any stretch of the imagination, but I had my little group of pals, and always had a ‘best friend,’ or two. We would spend all day together, afternoons at one or the other’s house, and then call each other as soon as we reached our separate homes, talk for hours, and leave the phone off the hook when we fell asleep so that when we woke up in the morning, the other would still be there.
Burnout hit the headlines in the UK this week, with BBC news reporting that Bumble, the dating app organisation where women make the first move, has announced a week-long holiday for all staff globally in a bid to combat collective burnout.
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).
Without addressing this third arm of leading with mental health in mind, we are missing a huge opportunity to reduce the need to use the skills of identifying and supporting. We may very well be taking a band-aid approach, neglecting potential sources of employee distress and missing the opportunity to focus on prevention over cure.
