healthy workplace

Individuals – tailor your resilience strategies to your personality style

In our previous article, we introduced the relationship between three personality styles and resilience―some individuals are naturally resilient, others have personalities with fewer protective factors, and yet others have a moderately protective style and well-developed resilience skills. If you haven’t read it, or want a refresher, you’ll find the [...]

2020-02-24T12:11:52+13:00May 1st, 2019|

Health monitoring needs good data

Guidance from WorkSafe New Zealand regarding the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 highlights that organisations hold a duty of care to monitor the health of their employees and to “identify potential signs of potential harm to their health”. We might think that this only applies to risks to physical [...]

2020-02-24T13:42:04+13:00March 1st, 2019|

Why bother with sleep at work

Sleep is increasingly a workplace wellbeing issue. Good sleep boosts our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, which means wecan’t achieve optimal health without taking care of our sleep first. Plus, the impacts of not sleeping well flow into how we function (or don’t function!) in our work day. When we [...]

2020-02-24T14:20:37+13:00March 1st, 2019|

Are your employees flourishing or languishing?

Does it matter? Yes, it does. Healthy employees with robust wellbeing are more likely to be engaged and productive. The flip side is also true—when people experience poor health and wellbeing, so does their engagement and productivity, with a direct hit on the bottom line for the business. Productivity losses [...]

2020-02-24T14:15:08+13:00March 3rd, 2017|