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Mental Health

Linked – Mental health training for managers could save organisations millions of pounds, study finds
ByMike McBride July 24, 2024July 24, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve mentioned before that in some of the worst of my mental health struggles, I had a manager who helped me manage the process and was incredibly supportive of me doing what I needed to do, and I later had a manager who made the entire thing awkward and unbearable for me. This was at the same company. Nothing about the rules or the program changed, but my manager did. That made all the difference between me staying and being productive and walking out the door.

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Linked – Mental Health Reminders in the Workplace.
ByMike McBride June 20, 2024June 19, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Could you do something for me? The next time you try to schedule a thirty-minute meeting with someone and see a thirty-minute break between long stretches of committed time, leave that time for them. Find a different time, if possible. Or go even further and commit to finding a time not immediately before or after another meeting. Let people have a few minutes. It’s good for all of our mental health.

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Employees Are Using AI Tools To Learn and to Help with Burnout
ByMike McBride May 9, 2024May 8, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you were burned out, overworked, and struggling to keep up with the demands of the job, and a tool promised to save you 30 minutes or more to get your work done, you’d figure out how to use it, too.

Of course, most of them are trying to use these tools without training and instruction from the company, so this is risky. One, because you have no idea what they are doing and what results they’re getting. Two, they might become even more burned out trying to teach themselves before they get to the part where it helps them save time.

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Linked – A Business Case for Building Empathy, Trust, and Psychological Safety
ByMike McBride April 30, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

What I would like, however, is just once for someone not to feel the need to make a business case for treating your employees with kindness and empathy. This need to include the business case and the impact on the bottom line is an appeal to management in their self-interest and the financial interest of their business.

How about we make the case that being kind, thoughtful, and empathetic towards employees is the right way to treat a fellow human being, regardless of what it means for the bottom line? Is it too much to ask managers and CEOs to treat people like people? Or are we so far down the caste system at work that we have to convince managers to act as if they care about their employees to benefit themselves?

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Linked – Mental Health at Work: Managers and Money
ByMike McBride April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

When management harms the mental health of our employees, we typically respond by offering them yoga or meditation spaces or maybe a lunchtime session on stress management. We never look at the system. We offer them ways to better cope with the broken system, but we never take responsibility for what the workplace is doing to their mental health.

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We should be honest about the mental health impacts of layoffs
ByMike McBride April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Every person you lay off from your business is ten times more likely to try and take their own life.

I don’t think senior executives think in those terms. I suspect many are thinking about juicing the bottom line, getting a little stock price bump, maybe making things more efficient, etc. I think large investors think about what is best for their stock values. That’s why CEOs announce layoffs of 10% of the workforce and are rewarded with $100 million bonuses.

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Linked – Mental health training for managers could save organisations millions of pounds, study finds

Linked – Mental Health Reminders in the Workplace.

Employees Are Using AI Tools To Learn and to Help with Burnout

Linked – A Business Case for Building Empathy, Trust, and Psychological Safety

Linked – Mental Health at Work: Managers and Money

We should be honest about the mental health impacts of layoffs

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