BUNDLE: Wellbeing in the workplace

As an employer, you have a duty of care for your employees and creating an environment where employee mental health and wellbeing is promoted and supported will bring considerable benefits to your business.  Not only will it decrease things like staff turnover, sickness and absenteeism – it also massively boosts employee engagement, productivity and innovation throughout your business.  Here, we look at the steps you can take to support your employees’ mental health and wellbeing.   

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In this podcast, we speak to Raman Sehgal, the Founder and Global President of international marketing agency, ramarketing. When he's not running his life sciences-focused company, Raman is the Host of the Molecule to Market podcast, an experienced keynote speaker, a regular contributor to Forbes and most recently, the author of The Floundering Founder: 24 Lessons to Refocus Your Business and Better Yourself. The book tackles issues around work/life balance and how not to get consumed by your business - something Raman himself has struggled with over the years. 

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One of the most important things to get right whether you’re starting or scaling a business is your culture. You can have the best ideas, products and services in the world, but if you haven’t underpinned that with a set of values and behaviours everyone in your team can sign up to, you will struggle to realise your potential. Duo Global Consulting’s Sarah Callender spends much of her time advising businesses on culture change and in this article, she explains why taking care of the mental health and wellbeing of your staff is one of the best things you can do.

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Looking after the health and safety of your staff at work is one of your primary obligations as an employer. In fact, there is legislation in place to ensure that workplaces are safe for all who enter them. In this article, we talk through what the current rules are for employers and employees.  

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With one in six employees suffering with their mental health at any one time, it’s important that employers show support in this area. Recognising the signs and symptoms and promoting strategies to help promote mental health wellbeing will help individuals as well as the productivity of a company. To help you with mental health wellbeing and illness support, here is a webinar from one of the UMi network, We Are WellBeing, to make it easier for you along with some downloadable resources. 

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Poor employee mental health costs UK employers as much as £45bn each year and so looking after the mental health and emotional wellbeing of your employees will improve every aspect of your business, including its bottom line.  One way to do this is to appoint a Mental Health First Aider. Here, we look at what the role is and how it can benefit your business.

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With longer days and higher temperatures, summer is likely an exciting time for both you and your employees. That said, you need to be ready for the issues it can cause in the workplace. Here, the team at Croner have put together some useful advice to ensure a safe and happy summertime for you and your employees.

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We speak to public speaker, entrepreneur and wellbeing consultant, Lizzy Hodcroft. A disruptive force in the UK start-up community, Lizzy has founded and raised investment for multiple businesses and is a firm believer in the power of entrepreneurship as self-discovery. After suffering from severe mental ill health and addiction since the age of 14, it was only when Lizzy entered the world of business that she really started to put some of those troubles behind her. People may remember her appearance on Dragons' Den in 2018 and her emotional TEDx talk in 2019 where she spoke candidly about the phenomenal journey towards self-compassion and self-acceptance that she’s been on.

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Being a responsible employer means supporting the people in your team at all stages of their lives. Understanding menopause in the workplace is a key part of this and clearly more needs to be done in light of statistics that show almost a million women have left their jobs due to menopause symptoms. In this article, award-winning HR, employment law and health and safety adviser, Croner, explains how to positively manage menopause at work.

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Stress can affect anyone at any point in their life and is a leading cause of sickness absence for businesses. Taking active measures to reduce stress for your staff is therefore incredibly important, both for staff who are suffering and for the business more broadly. In this article, award-winning HR, employment law and health and safety adviser, Croner, gives its top tips for tackling stress in the workplace.

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With many companies taking a fresh look at their operations as they continue to adapt to the changing business climate, an area you may wish to consider is your wellbeing initiatives. Here, Amrit Sandhar CEO of The Engagement Coach, shares his advice to ensure your employees get the most from your wellbeing initiatives and your resources are being used wisely.

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Workplaces are increasingly focusing on resilience as a necessary skill for their staff. In this article, UMi partner In Professional Development explores why resilience training is important, why workplaces need to invest in this kind of training to be successful, and why resilience training should be a key focus if you want to grow a good company culture.    

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Learn what you can do to promote a healthy work-life balance for your team to drive down sickness absence, spark loyalty and boost productivity with UMi Makes it Easy... to Find the Right Work-life Balance for Your Team hosted by Fraser Kennedy from Croner. 

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