A common myth about resilience is that it is something that we do or do not have. What we now know is that people’s resilience goes up and down, depending on their current circumstances, the number and size of challenges they face, and their actions in response to those challenges. [...]
In our last article, we wrote about understanding resilience as a continuum, and using this concept to inform how we build our own resilience. What we need to hear – both from ourselves as “self-talk” and from others – will depend on where we are at on that resilience [...]
Traditional approaches to employee wellbeing have tended to focus on the individual person, encouraging and supporting people to move more at work, eat more fruit, learn mindfulness or practise lunchtime yoga. While this strategy is beneficial for many people, we know that individual behaviour is influenced by context, and [...]
We have been noticing how many people are describing a high level of tiredness and “running out of puff”, with conversations along the lines of, “I know it’s only April but I’m so tired it must really be December”. There are likely to be multiple reasons for this fatigue [...]