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Prioritizing Your Health and Wellbeing During the Holidays
Prioritizing your health and wellbeing is difficult to begin with, and it becomes even harder during the holiday season. For some, the start of the holiday season can also cause increased stress, struggles with sadness, or feelings of loneliness. Between managing work, obligations with family and friends, and just keeping up with life, it can feel overwhelming to try to prioritize your own needs. Here are some tips to consider putting into place so you can prioritize ... |
Beyond Burnout: How Leaders Can Foster Well-Being in the Workplace
In today's rapidly changing and high-demand work environment, stress has become an unwelcome constant for many employees. For leaders, understanding and addressing this pervasive issue isn’t just about compassion—it’s actually a business imperative. We’ll cover the impacts stress can have on the workplace, things to look out for, and share strategies for managing and mitigating the effects. There are tangible costs to ignoring stress within teams. Productivity ... |
Enhancing Communication for Healthy Relationships
Most of us understand that good nutrition, exercise, and reduced stress are part of a healthy lifestyle. More recent studies have uncovered the benefits of social connection, along with how social isolation can negatively affect our health and wellbeing. There are many ingredients to healthy relationships, but it isn’t always easy to maintain balance within those relationships. Consider focusing on a few specific areas which support social connection and healthy ... |
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 ... |
Combating Compassion Fatigue in HR
It’s not just you. Since the pandemic, many HR professionals have found themselves feeling exhausted, hopeless, like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. There’s a name for this feeling: Compassion fatigue. Many HR professionals are empathetic and caring by nature. They’re uniquely positioned in their roles to encounter people at their low points. And at a time when work has never been tougher, it can be hard to avoid the day-in and day-out of this ... |
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 ... |