How to break the stigma around stress & mental health at work

Exploring Stigma around stress in the workplace by Sarah Mayo With many (60%**) who suffer from mental ill health saying the stigma, shame and silence can be as bad as, if not worse than, the symptoms themselves, and with 1 in 6 in the workplace suffering from a common mental health condition in any given

Is your workplace psychologically safe?

Unpacking Psychological Safety By Sarah Mayo Two questions to start… Have you heard of the term psychological safety?  And if you have, is it a term that is discussed and modelled at a senior level in your organisation?  If you haven’t come across the term psychological safety before, a good place to start is to

Moving from Burnout to Burning Bright in 2021

Workplace Burnout by Siôn Stansfield In researching the topic of burnout ahead of our new Walk The Talk webcast conversation with NHS clinical psychologist Dr Megan Swanson, I was saddened, although not surprised, to see how instances of burnout are increasing rapidly. A recent study by Gallup* reveals that 76% of employees experience burnout on

POINT3 WELLBEING PREDICTIONS 2021:

The Future Fit Of Workplace Wellbeing How workplace wellbeing is evolving. We are working and living in extraordinary times and we as individuals and teams in the workplace are being stress-tested to the max, and will continue to be so. If the global pandemic has taught business leaders anything, it’s the need to be ready

Three pointers to managing change in uncertain times

Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of personal development, health and wellness… This week we’re delighted to welcome Gemma Bullivant to share her “3 Pointers”… small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier and more thriving life. Gemma

Black Lives Matter

We are publishing this one month after George Floyd was killed on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has led to a global rallying cry against systemic racism and put the Black Lives Matter movement firmly into the global spotlight. Many companies have been sharing their commitment and action to the cause, helping fuel

Three Pointers to parenting while working from home

Welcome to our guest blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… Many parents have found themselves in the rather new situation of having to work from home with children around. So, this week, we’re delighted to welcome Miki Maruko to share her “3 Pointers” on parenting while working from home during COVID-19.

Managing mental health and wellbeing while social distancing or self-isolating

If you are feeling worried, stressed and/or anxious at this time then you are not alone. This is a very normal response to the uncertainty of how the coronavirus (COVID-19) could affect your life, including being asked to work from home or avoid other people. While there are many things that are out of our

Three Pointers to healthy sleep

Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… This week to mark World Sleep Day (13 March) we’re delighted to welcome Dr Kat to share her “3 Pointers”… small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier and

Three Pointers about power of walking and talking

Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… This week we’re delighted to welcome Carmen Rendell to share her “3 Pointers”… small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier and more thriving life. Carmen, aka The Soulwalker

It’s Time to Talk by Nicky Morgan

Today is Time to Talk Day – a day created by Time for Change to encourage everyone to have a conversation about mental health.  In their own words: “We know that talking about mental health can feel awkward, but it doesn’t have to.”  In October 2019  Public Health England launched the Every Mind Matters campaign

Three Pointers on finding motivation

3 Pointers on Finding Motivation – Dr Megan Swanson Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… This week we’re delighted to welcome Dr Megan Swanson to share her “3 Pointers” around finding motivation to keep you focused on your goals/intentions this year… small, easy to adopt steps we

Three Pointers to goal setting

Welcome to our new guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… Every couple of weeks we will ask an expert to share their “3 Pointers” around a different wellbeing theme – small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier

My 2020 Vision by Siôn Stansfield

For me, my goals keep me calm; they give me the focus that I need to have clarity on the decisions I make. I like to feel like I’m achieving, and that often comes down to giving each task that I’m working on a greater sense of purpose, and therefore motivating me further to achieve

My 2020 Vision by Nicky Morgan

Goals. I’m going to say it, I don’t really like the word.  Goals make me think of something big, brash, looming, intimidating… tantalising and always slightly out of reach. I don’t know when it happened, but my mind links the word “goal” with pressure, pain and struggle. If I set a “goal” and I don’t

My 2020 Vision by Sarah Mayo

Happy new year/decade! And welcome to the twenties, a decade with a name, joy!  I like this time of year. Not because of the weather, or the post-festive fatigue; I like this time of year because it’s an opportunity to get back into my routines. Routines are important for me. As much as they might

18 months young…

18 months ago (June 2018) we officially set off on our mission to help people “stress less and smile more”. Honestly speaking, we didn’t really know what that would look like, and we certainly couldn’t have envisioned where we would be today (December 2020). But we were clear on one thing… and that was that

Wellbeing at work – a case study in success

POINT3 Wellbeing has been supporting Crescendo Tailored Events with an on-going wellbeing programme for their team (of now 10) since December 2018 when the initiative launched at the company’s year-end off-site meeting held at Goodwood Hotel. Read all about the programme and its success in event industry publication Meetings and Incentive Travel magazine here. The

WELLBEING AND WHY IT MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE

On Wednesday 9 October, TRO hosted a panel discussion in collaboration with POINT3 Wellbeing, exploring mental health and wellbeing in the workplace in support of World Mental Health Day. The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Day was suicide and suicide prevention. Every year close to 800,000 people globally take their own life and

Money Matters

Life’s Riches by Nicky Morgan Starting a new business – for the first time – brings with it many new experiences; coming up with a name for the business, registering the business, selling your first product (the joy!) and (almost certainly at first), not taking a monthly salary. In early 2018, my two colleagues and

Burn Brightly

Managing our energy, and our performance by Sion Stansfield How do we achieve amazing performance more often than not? The right balance of energy will allow us to think, feel and act at our best, maximising our performance in life. Understanding how we make that energy and how we burn it – having this awareness