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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.

Leadership

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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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Psychosocial Risk Management and the Three Ghosts of Christmas

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Psychosocial Risk Management and the Three Ghosts of Christmas

The weather is bitter, the poorhouses and the prisons are full, and a money-hungry employer is keeping a shrewd eye on the company’s heating bill while his overworked and shivering clerk tries to remain optimistic in the face of inflation.

The year is 1843, but it could as easily be 2022.

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Should I stay or should I go now? The science of quitting, and when to do it.

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Should I stay or should I go now? The science of quitting, and when to do it.

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?

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

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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.