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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.

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Conquering the Imposter Experience

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Conquering the Imposter Experience

Imposter syndrome is a common experience, even among the most successful individuals like Tom Hanks, Serena Williams, and Michelle Obama. In our latest blog, we explore how these feelings of self-doubt can actually become a powerful tool for personal growth and achievement. Learn how to shift your mindset, recognize your true worth, and leverage those imposter thoughts to fuel your success. Whether you're a leader looking to create an inclusive environment or an individual battling self-doubt, this blog offers actionable insights to help you thrive.

Read more on how to conquer imposter syndrome and turn it into your secret weapon for success.

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Should you stay or should you go?

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Should you stay or should you go?

Deciding whether to leave a job is rarely straightforward. There are countless factors to consider, and the weight of these decisions can often leave us feeling paralyzed. However, when our mental health and overall well-being are at risk, it becomes crucial to evaluate whether it's time to move on or develop coping strategies to manage the situation effectively.

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Beyond Band-Aids & EAP

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Beyond Band-Aids & EAP

Organisations have been using EAP for many years now, but is this model working for the modern work environment? In this blog we look at two alternatives to EAP in how to create a workplace that is healthy and sustainable. Leadership development and Professional Supervision are two options that are both in the preventative and sustainable space.

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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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How Can Leaders Create Connectedness at Work?

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How Can Leaders Create Connectedness at Work?

Workplaces can be the drivers of positive mental health outcomes.

We live in a world where a huge number of people suffer from mental ill health and access to help is poor. As employers, why not go a step further from just ‘not making things worse’ to actually making things better?

Creating social-connectedness at work is one opportunity for leaders to impact their people positively. Loneliness experienced at home can seep into the workplace and leaders have the power to not only prevent work-based loneliness, but combat loneliness overall.

Workplaces can be the engines that drive a socially connected world.

How can leaders create an environment that fosters social connection?

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How to Do Organisational Change

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How to Do Organisational Change

Whether it’s a restructure, a new senior hire, cost-cutting measures or a change in direction, organisations know change is a normal part of maintaining a successful business.

And yet organisations mess it up, creating disgruntled employees who fight them every step of the way - even when the new ideas are good and have the potential to help everyone.

Why is organisational change so hard?

And how can leaders do it well?

How to Set your Compass in 2024

How to Set your Compass in 2024

What is one thing a bunch of workplace psychologists all have in common?

We don’t do New Year’s Resolutions.

There’s a few reasons for that.

Some of us find they just don’t stick.

It’s not because we lack willpower.

We’re workplace psychologists. We know the theory behind making changes stick.

We’re workplace psychologists, and we don’t do New Year’s Resolutions.

So what do we do to set our intentions for the year ahead?

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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?

Coping with Change: How to Change when Change is Unexpected

Coping with Change: How to Change when Change is Unexpected

Mental health advice around change often centres on how to start or how to stop doing something: New Year’s Resolutions, Change Management, addiction cessation or the addition of new, positive habits.

We are frequently encouraged to step out of our comfort zones and embrace a growth mindset.

Proactively seeking change can help us to grow, learn, and develop.

Learning about how neuroscience impacts behavioural change is not only fascinating but gives us tools to make habit creation and habit cessation less painful and more efficient and rewarding. We covered some main points on this topic in part 1 and part 2 of our Change blog series.

But proactive change is not the full picture. At times, change is simply thrust upon us, and it isn’t always good.

How to Change: A Practical Guide

How to Change: A Practical Guide

In part one of our guide to change we looked at the ‘stages of change’ model. In part two, we will consider five practical strategies to successfully facing change and how we can apply those change strategies in ways that benefit both our performance and our mental health.

Here are five keys to change that we can keep in mind the next time we are either faced with change, or we decide to strive for change.