November 2nd marks this year’s Stress Awareness Day. So to help you, we’ve rounded up some reading and resources to help you to tackle stress in the workplace.
What to read…
- It’s time to make health and wellbeing a strategic priority
- Is your organisations talking about stress?
- 5 ways to combat stress in the workplace
- Why being like Mary Poppins all the time is not good for your mental health…
- Burnout: an opportunity for recalibration?
What to watch…
- The Reset Show with Geoff McDonald – Health and Wellbeing
- The Reset Show with Dr Bill Mitchell – Wellbeing and Resilience
More like this? Subscribe to our free Wellbeing Toolkit!
In 2020, we created an 8-week programme to help you develop your own wellbeing, through our Wellbeing Toolkit.
You can still access this toolkit for free here. Or to make things even easier for you, we’ve outlined the contents from each week below, so if there are any elements you would like to receive sooner, email us at info@peoplelab.co.uk and we’ll send them over to you straight away.
Week One – Resilience
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on resilience
- Three overarching strategies to help you become more resilient
- A free eBook around everyday resilience
- Information about meditation and links to try it
- Links to mental health support
Week Two – Emotional Intelligence
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on emotional intelligence
- About emotional intelligence – what it is and the four attributes you need
- The common characteristic of high and low ‘EQ’
- A quiz to test your own EQ
- The traits of EQ – worksheet
- Developing your EQ – what you can do
Week Three – Achievement
- Introducing the PERMA model
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on achievement
- Examples of people with a Growth Mindset
- Developing a Growth Mindset
- Link to Carol Dwecks Ted Talk
- Downloadable fact sheet on Growth Mindset
- About ability vs effort praise
Week Four – Relationships
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on Relationships
- Why healthy relationships are so important and how to develop healthy relationships
- Fact sheet – tips to building relationships
- Your positive energy network
- Link to Kim Cameron’s Ted Talk
- Video from ’The Reset Show’ on managing energy
Week Five – Engagement or ‘Flow’
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on Engagement
- What is flow?
- Link to Mihaly Csikszentmihaly’s Ted Talk
- Model – Emotions in flow
- The art of disengagement
- Link to eBook – Managing energy, not time
Week Six – Positive Emotions
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on Positive Emotions
- Link to Barbara Fredrickson’s Ted Talk
- Introduction to Broaden and Build theory and model
- Positive emotions at work
- Rewiring your brain for happiness
Week Seven – Meaning
- Video from Wellbeing Lunch on Meaning
- Victor Frankl’s exploration of ‘meaning’
- Link to meaning in life questionnaire
- How to find meaning
- Finding meaning at work
- Introducing Ikigai (model and video)
Week Eight – Overview
- A reminder of the health footprint of the pandemic and impact on mental health
- Finding the positives from this opportunity to ‘Reset’
- Link to ’The Reset Show’
- How we can help you
- Link to mental health support
We hope this helps – if you’d like to talk to us further about stress and or wellbeing in the workplace, drop us a line….
