New Year – New Way Of Doing Business?
New Year brings about many the thought of resolutions and whether you believe in the or not, the start of a new year can bring about a sense of new beginnings. I like the fact that there is a blank...
Our Professional New Year
A New Year is a great time to take stock and look back, here's why and what we did at our professional New Year. Traditional New Year starts on January 1st. Our organisational New...
Anxiety and Peri/Menopause in the Workplace
Today, we are encouraged to bring our whole selves to work. This should be the standard of course but to do this, we need to make sure we are armed with information, are ready to listen to what is...
5 Ways to Wellbeing
A personal approach at work Connect: Building and maintaining constructive relationships at work is an important part of wellbeing and considering one is at work for a vast majority of the time,...
What is Mental Health?
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the definition of the term ‘Mental Health’ is a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the...
Psychological Safety
The news about the 800 people sacked via Zoom has caught my eye recently with the reporting focusing largely on the legality and morality of the action. It is of course absolutely right...
Health and Safety
Health and Safety You have heard of this but what does it actually mean? The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) lays down wide-ranging duties on employers. Employers must protect the...
Stress in 2022
What is it The word stress has its origin in the more mechanical/physical sense of placing stress on an object. Its use to describe psychological stress is largely attributed to Dr Hans Seyle in the...
Exploring Eating Disorders
What are Eating Disorders Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that are affected by people regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic background. Disorder Eating behaviour is a...
Confidence and First Aid
Why first aid is so important. What if? What could I do? How would I cope? These are the questions that only a First Aid Course can give you the answers to. By attending a first aid course for as...
Ageism and mental health
Where is the voice of young people? When I carried out some generic research (Googling!) on the relationship between ageism and mental health, all of the search suggestions and indeed the entire...
What is ageism?
Ageism is stereotyping and/or discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age which may be casual or systemic. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe...