Visit the Mental Wellbeing Zone
The World Health Organisation has referred to stress as the health epidemic of the 21st Century. In the updated edition of the Stevenson Farmer report it was estimated that the total cost per year of poor mental health was between £2,100 and £2,900 per employee. A staggering £21,000 – £29,000 for a team of 10!
Employers should act now if they haven’t already, and whilst wellbeing days, gym memberships and mindfulness classes can be helpful interventions, on their own they are not enough.
If leaders are serious about supporting the wellbeing of their employees, it is important to go back to basics, reviewing, management practices, policies, organisational culture, expectations, and technology … Increased understanding of how the brain works, the real causes of stress and how to support individuals to perform at their best, even in the most demanding workplaces.
In the workplace, pressure is unavoidable due to the ever-increasing demands and challenges organisations are facing. Indeed in some instances pressure can be a good thing, when it is perceived as being at an acceptable level for the individual, as it can help focus the mind and provide motivation. However when pressure becomes excessive or unmanageable for pro-longed periods of time, it can lead to anxiety, depression and serious life threatening diseases
In the Mental Wellbeing Zone, the Jigsaw@work team will be available for one-to-one consultations, providing visitors with an opportunity to discuss mental health awareness, ways of creating healthy, regenerative workplaces and developing well-trained managers to identify employees with the early signs of stress which if left unattended could lead to burnout or serious mental illness.
They will also be running three group sessions, open to all visitors. Scroll down for more information.
This is a workplace focused session – wellbeing practices for everyone, including Managers. Creating a positive workplace culture isn’t rocket science, but you will need to have everyone on board and make sure your leaders are committed too.
We all know how to check ourselves if we aren’t feeling too well physically – taking our temperature, blood pressure, ice packs, elevating the leg, putting a plaster on etc. What about checking up on our mental wellbeing? There are lots of things we can “check-up” on for that too.
There is no doubting that the world of work has certainly evolved and changed meaning that many people are now working in positions which require new and additional skills, the consequences being that whilst some people may have welcomed the changes, for many others, the changes have led to increased fatigue and workplace stress. Unfortunately many of the traditional stress management strategies, which help to relieve the feeling of being stressed in the moment, don’t address the root cause of the stress and therefore as soon as the individual returns to the workplace, the stress returns. Now is the time to challenge our thinking around stress. In this seminar we will be looking at how having increased levels of self-awareness, and behavioural based coping strategies , grounded in neuroscience, can transform the way you think about and respond to stressful situations at home or at work.