This podcast is part of a toolkit of free, evidence-informed workplace wellbeing resources provided by the Workplace Wellbeing Research Team based at the University of East Anglia, UK. You can find the resources on www.evolveworkplacewellbeing.org The contents of the toolkit draw upon cutting edge multi-disciplinary research on workplace wellbeing, including insider insights and case studies. We want to give you the insight you need to take evidence-informed action, helping your business evo ...
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Caring for others is usually top priority for people working in the health and community services sector. So much so, that it’s often all too easy for us to neglect our own wellbeing. Workplace Wellbeing natters is the podcast that encourages us all to take care of the wellbeing of ourselves and the people we’re working with, whether that’s in primary care, mental health, disability, aged or community services, government, or any other part of the health and community services ecosystem. Hos ...
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The Workplace Wellbeing podcast discusses all aspects of employee wellbeing, whether that is financial, mental health or just making work fun. Workplace Wellbeing is often cited as the number 1 growth area in HR and management and it is attracting growing interest from employers and entrepreneurs alike. Many of them are social entrepreneurs but some of them are riding the wave in an attempt to take advantage of the increasing interest in this area; we aim to help you navigate the world of Wo ...
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In this episode of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh of the University of East Anglia speaks with Dr Balissa Greene, an occupational psychologist working in Accenture’s Leadership and Culture practice. Balissa has a strong track record of driving impactful change in diversity, inclusion and wellbeing across the public and pr…
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In this podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh speaks with Professor Daiga Kamerāde (University of Salford) and Professor Brendan Burchell (University of Cambridge) about their research on the four day working week and other types of working time reduction. Daiga and Brendan share insight into the research trial carried out recently at South Cambridgeshire Dis…
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In this edition of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast, Professor Kevin Daniels speaks with Professor Paula Brough from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She is the Director of the Research Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) and an expert on the topic of occupational stress and coping. Here, she discusses her work on tac…
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In this edition of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh of the University of East Anglia speaks with Lisa Chamberlain, a doctoral candidate at the University of Liverpool working in the field of Human Resource Management research. Lisa's previous experience as a Sergeant in the US army and an HR manager in a small Liverpool bus…
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In this edition of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast, Helen Fitzhugh speaks with Rachael Skews, Chartered Psychologist, coach and founder of Cognus Consulting on the topic of psychological flexibility at work and its relationship with wellbeing and performance.由Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Team
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In this edition of our regular podcast, Professor Kevin Daniels speaks to Dr Sema Etuknwa about her extensive work on improving return to work practices. Sema gives insights into good return to work from her Innovate UK part-funded knowledge transfer partnership between the University of Huddersfield and Swiss Re. She describes the toolkit she has …
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In this podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh of the Workplace Wellbeing Research Team at the University of East Anglia talks with Chloe Jepps of CMI about the importance of good management for wellbeing, performance, retention and more. With a focus on CMI's recent Better Managers Campaign (report freely downloadable here: https://www.managers.org.uk/knowled…
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In this podcast, Professor Kevin Daniels of the Workplace Wellbeing team at the University of East Anglia speaks with Valarie Williams-Foy, Senior Organisational Development Consultant at Imperial College London. They talk about how evidence can be used to support organisational development. A note for those who may be coming in fresh to listening …
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In this podcast we will look at an issue which could influence workplaces and workplace wellbeing in the future: Universal Basic Income. Dr Mark Bryan from the University of Sheffield joins us to explain what UBI is, who is thinking about it and the potential implications for organisations, managers and HR leads. Usually on our podcast we catch-up …
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In this podcast Dr Emma Russell of the University of Sussex joins Dr Helen Fitzhugh from the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Team. Emma is an expert in understanding email behaviours at work - those which support workplace wellbeing and better performance - and those which are problematic and should be avoided. In this podcast she explains four 'super a…
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We are delighted to host a takeover of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Podcast by the IPPO (The International Public Policy Observatory) to mark the publication of the IPPO's rapid evidence review on NHS staff wellbeing. Professor Kevin Daniels from our UEA team offers an overview of the report's findings first, then Sarah O'Meara of the IPPO asks q…
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In this follow-up podcast to the conversation with Chief Inspector Steve Kerridge, Dr Helen Fitzhugh speaks with Matt Blowers from NatWest. Where the previous conversation talked about the creation and police application of the UEA / PrOPEL Hub 'Checklist for the Pro-active Management of Remote Workers', this follow-up sees Matt describe how he has…
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In this podcast, Professor Sara Connolly speaks with Chief Inspector Steve Kerridge from Cambridgeshire Constabulary. They discuss the constabulary's move to more agile working during the COVID-19 pandemic and how a research collaboration with the Workplace Wellbeing Research team at the University of East Anglia fed into the team's creation of the…
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This month Dr Helen Fitzhugh speaks with George Challouma from the Marina Bay Cafe in Gorleston (near Great Yarmouth). They discuss ways in which any business - large or small - can create a great experience at work for public-facing workers and benefit as a business from doing so. Their conversation calls upon George's experience and the '4 boosts…
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This month Professor Kevin Daniels, who leads the University of East Anglia's Workplace Wellbeing Research team, kicks off the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast series by talking with Emma Mitchell, Talent Director at EY. They discuss what works in supporting people with disabling long-term health conditions to stay in work, based on recent resear…
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Jake Bates, Wellbeing Specialist at The WorkTech Group | Meeting your staffing requirements in difficult times
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Meeting your staffing requirements in difficult times. Recruitment and retention of shift and hourly paid employees in the UK and Ireland. This summer, we stopped our regular recordings and produced two compilation episodes from the 50-plus episodes we had recorded. We called these the “Work Place Wellbeing Podcast” done as a book. However, despite…
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In this episode, a sobering stat: over 90% of your life will be spent indoors. And for many of us in the health and community services sector, that can often mean staring at the inside of somewhat uninspiring workspaces, which has been proven to be detrimental to your health and wellbeing. You might think that you'll have to wait for your next buil…
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If you've ever left a conversation at work wondering "what did they mean by that?", then it's possible you've encountered Workplace Incivility. Incivility in your workplace resides in a grey area: it stops short of being bullying, but instead it's those insidious ambiguous acts that undermine your workplace culture and leave you puzzled over whethe…
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The phrase "be kind" has been plastered on t-shirts, made into songs, and appeared on millions of inspirational posters. But it's not often the investigation into kindness, or how to apply kindness, goes much further than that. So let's talk kindness! In this episode, Joe Sehee, Executive Director of Social Health Australia, talks to Linda about hi…
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Impostor thoughts (often mis-labelled as impostor 'syndrome'), are something almost everyone can relate to. From world leaders, to CEOs, to elite actors and sportspeople, almost all of us have had this thought cross our mind at some point: "Do I deserve this? Or is my success some sort of fluke or terrible administrative error meant for someone els…
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It’s a mark of how far we have come in the wellbeing space that the fear of losing one’s life or a limb doesn’t concern the majority of us at work and that when you ask modern managers about wellbeing in the Workplace, their thoughts often start with mental health issues. So in this chapter, we aren’t going to discuss health and safety because, tha…
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This is an area where the responsibility of the employer can be debated. However, the impact is huge. We have discussed the impact on productivity at work and the impact on the individuals concerned. A lot of effort is going into the subject, and it is an area that we believe pays huge dividends for employers that support their staff. This chapter …
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had more of those moments at work where things felt effortless? Where we feel like our team is working like a well-oiled machine, where we're all playing to our strengths and our work styles all complement each other? Linda and Danielle are discussing strengths in this episode, where we'll talk about the VIA Character Stre…
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The Workplace Wellbeing Book - Done as a Podcast | Part 2 - Chapter 8 : Psychological Wellbeing
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This is a subject which has become increasingly recognized as an area of employer responsibility. This is a problem that was often swept under the carpet in the past but is now benefiting from a much more open debate as in recent years the full scale of the problem has become clear. Throughout the podcast series, we have discussed the different typ…
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Just like leadership, communications has probably been one of the top 3 business book subjects of all time so we weren’t surprised that it came up regularly with our guests.. No clear trend emerged on the subject throughout our 2 series, other than clear communications and listening to your team help wellbeing. This chapter includes clips from the …
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For many of us in the health and community services sector, having a meaningful, purposeful career is a major part of our wellbeing at work. So how do we get more meaning into our work and less of those days where we feel like we're just going through the motions? In this episode, Linda and Danielle discuss where and how we might find meaning in ou…
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The Workplace Wellbeing Book - Done as a Podcast | Part 2 - Chapter 6 : Roles and Responsibility.
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Chapter 6: Roles and Responsibility. We were constantly surprised by the link between what you could call standard business practice and wellbeing. This is covered in this chapter which looks at how you select your team, the roles you give them, their responsibilities and other working practices. Tools such as an organization chart and a job descri…
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Chapter 5: Management System and Process. If you really want to make a success of your strategy, some sort of management system to define and measure success and encourage continuous improvement is a good idea. This chapter discusses ISO 45003 which is the first global management standard covering psychological health and safety in the workplace an…
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Last episode, Linda and Danielle spoke about the importance of being able to craft your role around you; enhancing your workplace wellbeing by making sure you're doing more of the things that give you purpose and meaning, and less of the things that don't. But that's a pretty hard thing to do when you don't know what your strengths are! In this epi…
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Why have a wellbeing strategy – employer Responsibility and return on investment. It was pretty easy to establish that physical wellbeing is covered by health and safety regulations in most countries around the world. But what about more personal issues such as financial wellbeing, personal fitness and mental wellbeing. What is the responsibility o…
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Whether or not you're in a job you love or a job you hate, there are times you'll find every job both joyous and frustrating, energising and draining, or uplifting and harrowing; and often all at the same time. Regardless of what job you have or how much you love it, balancing the good and bad aspects of any role can be one of the reasons your well…
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Chapter 3: Discovery and establishing a wellbeing strategy. Two themes emerged over the course of our podcast on strategy. They were: Companies didn’t have a strategy. They had free fruit and yoga The need to do some investigation work during a discovery phase before you settle on a strategy. Several of our guests discussed the steps needed to esta…
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Trust based leadership. leadership come close to the top of the key issues that impact wellbeing, and also that good leaders make for a happy work place and that un happy organsiations nearly always have poor leadership as one of the root causes. Within leadership a key theme emerged from our guests as they consistently identified trust as probably…
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Breaking down the workplace wellbeing book into bite-sized chapters. Chapter 1: Values and Purpose. A theme that came up time and again in our 50 podcasts was that well-run organisations are happier places to work. Several of our contributors talked about the impact of values and purpose on wellbeing This chapter includes clips from the following p…
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The words 'suffering' and 'compassion' are words we're pretty familiar with in the health and community services sector: after all, the desire to alleviate suffering and show compassion are key reasons why many people find themselves working in the sector in the first place. But have you ever thought about what those words might mean in an organisa…
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will significantly affect my mental wellbeing while I’m at work… On the last episode for Season 1, Workplace Wellbeing natters hosts Linda and Danielle conclude the season by revisiting the language of wellbeing: but this time, we’re looking at the power of language. We’ll discuss how language shapes…
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We all want more good days at work. So how can give ourselves more of the good days and less of the bad ones? In the second part of our look on how to enhance mental wellbeing at work, Linda and Danielle discuss some more aspects of what can influence our mental wellbeing, both positively and negatively. This time, we’re looking at psychological ha…
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Looking after our mental wellbeing, both our team’s and our own, is a key part of ensuring everyone’s safety at work. But how do we do that? What are the things that affect our wellbeing in the health and community services sector? How can we do more of the positive and less of the negative in our workplace? So many questions that this episode need…
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In this episode of Workplace Wellbeing natters, Linda and Danielle ask a very important question when it comes to improving your wellbeing: so what is wellbeing, really? We explore common, yet different definitions of wellbeing for both at home and at work and hear from members of the health and community services workforce about what wellbeing mea…
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What does it mean to be 'thriving' at work? Or are you just 'surviving' - counting the minutes until the end of your shift? In this episode, Linda and Danielle discuss the key factors involved in making your workplace mentally healthy. We all know and understand the risks of physical hazards in our workplaces, but psychosocial hazards are just as r…
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In this episode, you’ll be introduced to your Workplace Wellbeing natters hosts, Linda and Danielle. You’ll hear a little about their background in the health and community services sectors, and about their own passion for wellbeing. We’ll explore and investigate what wellbeing means to some people working in health and community services, before w…
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The Workplace Wellbeing Book - Done as a Podcast | Part 2, Tactics – "Implementing a Wellbeing Strategy"
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Part 2 contains chapters that cover the key areas of wellbeing such as mental and financial wellbeing but also lots of tips to support implementing a wellbeing strategy. Regular listeners will probably have picked up the structure we tried to apply to all of our episodes. We tried to outline a problem that impacted on wellbeing, discuss the evidenc…
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The Workplace Wellbeing Book - Done as a Podcast | Part 1 "Strategy – setting up your organisation for wellbeing"
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As the Workplace Wellbeing Podcast reached the 50th episode we were finding that we were starting to cover the same subjects over again and we also believe that we have now uncovered all of the key themes that will help you become a guru of wellbeing at work. So we have decided that this contribution of ours to the knowledge base of Workplace wellb…
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Julie Winkle Giulioni, Author and Leadership Speaker | The alternative to promotion and why it could improve wellbeing at work
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Ian is joined by Julie Winkle Giulioni author of “Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.” This book follows on from the international bestseller “Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want.” which Julie co-authored Julie is an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership…
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Terry McDougall, Author, Executive and Career Coach | Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms
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Ian is joined by Terry McDougall Terry is the author of “Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms” As well as being a successful author, Terry is also an Executive and Career Coach. She works with high-achieving business owners and companies to help them increase the overlap between their professional success and per…
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Workplaces in the health and community services sector place unique demands on mental wellbeing, and so it's important that we take care of the people who take care of the community. But what's the best way to do that? And where do we start? This is Workplace Wellbeing natters, the podcast that helps organisations in the health and community servic…
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André Delafontaine, Founder of Genius Life Academy | Maximizing time spent in your ‘Genius Zone’.
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Ian is joined by André Delafontaine, Founder of the Genius Life Academy. Andre has developed a unique methodology to help companies and individuals engage and energize teams by maximizing time spent in what Andre describes as their 'Genius Zones'. André is currently teaching the Genius Life methodology to various business schools in Switzerland. Th…
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Lynn Yap, Author of The Altruistic Capitalist | Does altruistic capitalism improve wellbeing?
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Ian is joined by Lynn Yap the author of The Altruistic Capitalist. Lynn’s book is about leaders creating a positive impact and profit. In it she discusses leaders who increase employee engagement, increase brand value through innovative products, and create social impact by focusing on purpose. Lynn is also the founder of Actv8 network whose miss…
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Louise Deverell Smith, Founder of Daisy Chain | Flexible working and its impact on wellbeing
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Ian is joined by Louise Deverell Smith, founder of Daisy Chain. Daisy Chain is an award-Winning recruitment platform that Connects Parents with Flexible Employers. Louise describes it as a friendly way to search and connect with like-minded employers. This week in the UK work from home restrictions have ended as we hopefully see a return to some so…
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