Well-being in the Workplace

This article was featured in Market people Magazine  written for the London Insurance Market, but it's message of supporting staff in the workplace is universal. 

How do you currently support mental health and well-being within your organisation? Millennials are increasing rating this as a key requirement in a prospective employer, are you missing an opportunity to stand out from the crowd?  

The insurance sector is facing a time of huge change within its working models and workforce. Mergers, acquisitions and digitalisation are leading to job insecurity and fear of constant change, often causing stress and anxiety. Many long term employees are now nearing retirement and millennials will soon make up the majority of the workforce.  

Let's talk about Grief

Why do we find it so difficult to speak to someone when they are bereaved? We are all going to be in that position at some point in our lives but we appear to avoid that thought all costs. When my husband Steve died earlier this year, I could see the difficulty on people’s faces trying to find the words to speak to me. 

Although he had been ill with kidney failure for a few years he had gone into hospital for a live donor transplant so it was a shock when he died suddenly under anaesthetic.  

In my professional life I provide mental health awareness training, I feel that the lack of positive language we have around mental health impacts on people starting a MH conversation as they fear saying the wrong thing and as I have found this year we seem to have the same problems around grief.  Read More