Amy Morin has one simple idea that will help get you started on making the workplace more supportive of mental health issues your employees may be facing: So the simplest and most effective thing every boss can do during Mental Illness Awareness Week is to make employees aware of free online screening tools offered by Mental Health America. There’s no debating…
It’s not just a nice thing to do, it actually improves your own mood to show gratitude, and people receiving one do not feel as awkward about getting them as most of us think they will. Not surprisingly, the letter writers felt more positive afterward. However, they overestimated how awkward the recipients would feel receiving…
I think there’s a lot to consider in this article, and Dakota lays out why you should read it in the first sentence. “In this article, I’ll be arguing why value and respect are fundamental to workplace well-being, not salary or perks.” One of the things that struck me while reading it was how much…
Once upon a time, we might have been able to say that our responsibility for developing the people who worked for us stopped at the professional level. But as the workplace has become defined not by what we do between 9-5 in an office, but what we do everywhere, at anytime, I think this is…
If you’ve been paying attention to things like my LinkedIn profile, then you probably know I started a new position last week. When discussing why I made the change with people over recent days, I find myself talking around the same things that this UK survey talks about: A study outlining the positive benefits of…
They may not work often, but they don’t have to work often if we can target “everyone”. As long as they work occasionally, and based on my anecdotal evidence from people I talk to in the industry, they do work often enough. “”One of the notable aspects of gift card BEC attacks is that they…