This year’s theme for this week’s Mental Health Awareness Week is loneliness and its effect on our mental health.
The moments that bind us
There is a lot of talk about folk having lost a connection and belonging over the pandemic, to their teammates, to their wider working community, and to the organisation of […]
How Are You?
To start off the New Year, we are encouraging every manager to have a wellbeing conversation with their team. What does that actually mean though, and how can you do […]
The new ‘Team Toolkit’ – What is it?
When asked to develop a team toolkit for the staff re-orientation webpages my first thought was ‘where do I start?’ It needed to be something that was useful to teams […]
Creative Team Building
Our team recently piloted a short creative session facilitated by Tina Atchison-Thomas from the Arts and Culture team. Tina is an Outreach and Programme Co-ordinator and had contacted me a […]
Learning from Lockdown Teams
We hosted our first ever Virtual Staff Orientation this Wednesday and, to my mind, it was a very positive experience: no technical hitches, all the various presenters were there when […]
3 Top Tips for Winning at Work
Disclaimer: I don’t always get these things right. I am not the perfect colleague, and there’s probably lots more than 3 top tips I could have shared (feel free to […]
Cuppa, anyone?
I house sat for a friend for a week last year. During the first few days I suffered badly from a nagging headache – nothing too debilitating, simply one of […]
Keeping Connected
We have been collecting stories over the last few weeks of how teams have stayed connected with one another despite being physically separate. We have already shared one of those […]