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Effective Stress Management for Enhanced Health and Wellbeing
Stress is unavoidable but can be managed. Work, personal relationships, and daily responsibilities can often feel overwhelming. However, learning how to manage stress is crucial for maintaining both mental and physical health. Here are a few simple but effective strategies for managing stress: Practice Mindfulness and/or Meditation Mindfulness is a practice of staying present in the moment and focusing on your thoughts and feelings without judgment. ... |
Proactive Planning for Substance Misuse in the Workplace
The workplace serves as a crucial setting for addressing substance misuse. It is imperative to provide a structured environment which can counteract the shame and blame often associated with substance misuse. Whether it manifests through excessive drinking, misusing prescription medications, or engaging with illegal drugs, substance misuse can have devastating effects on both individual health and workplace dynamics. Most individuals are unlikely to jeopardize ... |
Suicide Awareness and Prevention
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, a time when companies, schools, non-profits, other groups, and communities unite to highlight mental health advocacy, allyship for survivors, and promote suicide prevention. According to the World Health Organization, over 700,000 people die by suicide each year. Worldwide rates have decreased, but unfortunately the U.S. is one country where suicide has increased in recent years. The key to lowering suicide rates ... |
Workplace Inclusivity for Neurodiverse Employees
Creating a workplace culture with diversity and inclusivity is fundamental to an organization’s success. Research reveals more than 1 in 100 people around the world are somewhere on the Autism spectrum, while upwards of fifteen to thirty percent of the world’s population is said to be neurodiverse (ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette’s syndrome, and others). This sizeable portion of the workforce requires organizations to provide work environments which ... |
Taking Action to Avoid Burnout
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, resulting in the loss of motivation for things we previously enjoyed. The negative effects of burnout spill over into personal and professional life, making us vulnerable to long-term physical and mental health illness. Seventy-one percent of employees reported typically feeling tense or stressed out during the workday, and fifty-two percent of employees ... |
Employee Substance Misuse
The Society for Human Resources Management reported that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in stress, anxiety, depression, and substance misuse. Substance misuse is a serious public health challenge. It includes the use of illegal drugs and the inappropriate use of legal substances, such as alcohol and tobacco. Whether through overindulgence in alcohol, misuse of prescription medication, or use of illegal drugs, such misuse ... |
Leading in a Diverse Workplace
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—three words you hear daily in the workplace. It's not unusual for companies to invest in expensive diversity training events. It's also not unusual for these efforts to yield little results and sometimes negative backlash. As a result, employees become increasingly frustrated with corporate culture and, in some cases, end up leaving. Diversity Opportunities Having a variety of cultures, opinions, and experience can ... |
A Year in Review: Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing
The American workforce faces unique challenges based on race, sexual orientation, disability, age, and occupational setting. However, their well-being is also impacted by socio-economic, political, and cultural factors. While organizations do not have control over these factors, it has become imperative that organizations proactively assist their workforces with managing physical and mental health balance. Chronic diseases and injuries in the U.S. workforce ... |
Creating a Bravespace Workplace
It's not every day that you read a book that truly inspires. Bravespace Workplace: Making Your Company Fit for Human Life is that book. I loved it so much that I had to bring in Moe Carrick, the author and founder of Momentum, to discuss her book,
and what it takes to make a workplace more human and how to create a bravespace workplace in which everyone can thrive.Moe's motivation for writing Bravespace Workspace was grounded in the frustration that we've known for a long time what work conditions bring out the best in people, ... |
Three Signs You’ve Created a Culture of Psychological Safety
If candor, risk–taking, and a feedback culture are the norm for your team, chances are you've achieved a high level of psychological safety. Psychological safety is more than being comfortable with and liking your teammates. It's the belief that your work environment is safe for personal risk taking.Amy Edmondson, a Harvard Business School professor who identified the concept of psychological safety in teams, has written extensively about its benefits. In short, ... |