Umbrella partnered with a specific business unit operating in a fierce market with significant adversity for the employees, their clients and the industry. The goal of the initiative was to support individuals and teams to increase resilience and manage stress successfully at home and work. Following a detailed assessment [...]
We are all familiar with the experience of setting ourselves goals — to pass an exam, run a marathon, lose weight or get promoted at work. Achieving the goal can be a tough process, but maintaining the goal or the change in behaviour into the future can be even more difficult. [...]
The advantages of being able to work flexibly, contactable at any location and to respond quickly to urgent requests make smartphones and other portable devices invaluable in our working lives. Feeling unable to switch them off, even while we sleep, being distracted by incoming messages when we need our [...]
Regular exposure to suffering, hardship or crisis can take its toll on all of us. Whether you’re a firefighter, caregiver, nurse, policy advisor, climate change activist, paramedic, case worker or lawyer, many frontline and helping professions are exposed to some level of trauma – homelessness, child abuse, domestic violence, [...]