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How to train managers to support team wellbeing

In a workplace, managers have arguably the biggest influence on staff wellbeing. Which begs the question, do your managers support the people they oversee? Too often, the answer is no. Gallup claims 52% of exiting employees say their manager or organisation could have done something to prevent them leaving. Also,

Signs you may not be living your purpose, and how to recognise it

Mark Twain once wrote that the two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why. Having purpose in our lives is important for health and wellbeing, and it provides motivation and satisfaction when we can achieve it.

How to create psychologically safe places where people can flourish

Positive work culture within a digital world can be hard to create, but what if a digital solution was actually the answer?

When people flourish, workplaces flourish. This is a core principle that underpins workplace wellbeing, and why so many businesses are prioritising and investing in the mental health of

The manager’s guide to making Christmas less stressful for your people

Christmas and the holiday period can be a fun time of year, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact, the Mental Health Foundation claims more than half of all New Zealanders feel added stress around Christmas time.

Why?

There’s often a lot of budding work stress

How to measure wellbeing in the workplace so you can actually manage it

Employee mental health is impacting your workplace whether you measure it or not. For a long time, businesses have operated on a ‘gut feel’ approach to wellbeing. Company culture has been ‘measured’ based on someone's sense of what it is, rather than hard data.

Mental health in the workplace: What a healthy workplace looks like and how it empowers productive teams

All over the world, more than half of all people will meet the criteria for a diagnosis of mental illness at some point in their lives. Whether businesses are the cause or not, they are caught up in the fallout when employees suffer from mental health disorders.

3 signs of burnout, 6 causes and 4 key strategies to address it

Suzi McAlpine remembers the heartbreaking moment her journey into researching burnout began.

She was dropping her 7 year old son off at school one day, anxiously thinking forward to the work presentation she had coming up that morning. She was so preoccupied with it that when her son asked her