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Workplace bullying: How to survive, move forward and heal
Companies as entities, purely profit-driven and lacking in ethics, can behave like bullies. It's as if the whole world has been blinded by the impression an organisation promotes:...
World Mental Health Day - Report urges more mental health training is required for...
FOLLOWING recent findings from Business in the Community’s (BITC) annual well-being survey, less than 24% of managers in the workplace have received training in mental health. Are...
Mental health in the workplace
How does your job affect your mental health?
Executive burnout – a resilient response
Working in a high-pressure environment invariably creates stress. Stress itself is not the issue. Good or helpful stress (called ‘eustress’) is that degree of...
Anxiety - a working guide
Today thousands of employees will get up and head for the building site, or an office, the lorry cab or even an aeroplane cockpit, yet they all have one common factor: Anxiety...
Stress and how to deal with it
About stress When our mechanisms to cope with a situation are exceeded, then we feel stress. This is not the same as pressure or challenge. You can have pressure or challenge and...
Self-care for burnt-out health care professionals
Feeling a sense of purpose and meaning in our work, we work endlessly to improve the mental health and well-being of others, but are not always that good at looking after our own...
Why you should take a personal day
What is a personal day and why should you take one?
When a toxic boss activates your anxiety
Toxic bosses are people who abuse their power and merge their personal and professional boundaries. They will try to undermine people in the team to boost their power base. They...
