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Mental Health in the Workplace Roundup
Just a few links to things that relate to why workplaces should care, and what they should do about mental health issues: The Business Community Should Care About Child Abuse Too What if I told you, that all those businesses that are struggling to find good workers in the current labor market, or who are…
How I Consume and Curate: Step Two and Three – Tagging and Sharing
From time to time, I am asked how I can keep up with numerous blog topics, twitter accounts, and Facebook pages while not making myself crazy. Well OK, maybe I am actually crazy, that is up for debate. However, what isn’t up for debate is that it takes a lot of content to keep all…
Linked: Most Managers Don’t Listen Well
If you aren’t even trying to listen during difficult conversations how will employees ever truly feel valued?
This does explain some of the disconnects around managers wanting to return to the office when employees don’t, or managers feeling like they’ve made the effort to support employee mental health when employees don’t agree. In order to understand that what you’re doing isn’t working, you have to actually ask people.
Worth Reading – Most workers told Monster their job harms their mental health
If you look at the contributors to the mental health damage, though, you see things that are avoidable if organizations wanted to avoid them. Fix poor management, address understaffing, pay people what they’re worth, and don’t lay off workers just to tweak the stock price. Unfortunately, in the current political and economic climate, I don’t see enough organizations that want to do any of that.
