A workplace wellbeing conversation with… Alex Hyde- Director at BIE Executive, an executive search firm
How are you feeling today on a scale of 1-10 and why? Today I’m a 7/10 and can be confident when answering that question! I use a mental health tracking tool called Form which I try to use every day before work to find out where I am at that
Rise Well @ Home
I was in two minds whether to develop this new product because I was acutely aware of many businesses making cuts, furloughing people and quite frankly trying to survive as well as the other businesses who are lucky enough to be trading as normal or those who are resilient enough
Why it has taken a global pandemic to get people talking about their feelings
I have been heartened by the increase in people talking about their feelings over the past month or so of lockdown. Business conversations have been open, honest and become the norm. Notably, more men have opened up about how they are feeling than I have ever witnessed before, which is
Feeling Blue this Monday? Why no one can agree on the office temperature!
Let’s be clear, Blue Monday is just a phenomenon created off the back of a marketing campaign by Sky Travel in 2005. Yet we seemed to have adopted it in the UK as the most depressing day of the year, when the reality is we can feel blue at any
How Nike Just Get On & Do It
It’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. Learn here about how Nike have adopted a high performing culture to get the best out of their people. As a big head office and workplace culture enthusiast, I was recently delighted to visit Nike’s European Head Quarters in Hilversum, just outside Amsterdam and
The CEO behind the award-winning employee experience
Following last Friday’s Employee Benefits Awards ceremony, I was delighted to catch up with Guy Hayward, the CEO of Goodman Masson who was the winner of arguably the most important award of the night- Best Employee Engagement Strategy. Goodman Masson is one of London’s leading specialist Finance and Technology recruitment businesses
Money, Money, Money
Some might bury their head in the sand when the topic comes up. Some may not have given it a second thought. Some don’t even flinch and feel very comfortable discussing it. And others might think about it all the time and feel it is a major stressor in their
This Is Me- Employees open up to their colleagues on their personal experiences with mental health
I have just come out of one of the most heart-warming wellness workshops I have ever been to in the workplace, designed to begin to change the tide on the stigma associated with mental health. My former employer, global recruitment firm the SR Group, asked me to come back and chair
Mindful Morning Series- The Power of the Breath
This morning the clients of leading global HR recruitment firm Frazer Jones were invited to a ‘Breath Revolution’ experience as part of a ‘Mindful Morning’ Series I have developed for the business. As guests arrived at 8am, they walked into an oasis of calm. Escaping the rush hour, clients enjoyed the
Massages and cuddles fight disease
Cuddles I love a cuddle, like really love a cuddle. I didn’t really think anything of it until my husband started teasing me about the amounts of cuddles I request on a regular (tri-daily) basis. I must have subconsciously developed it from my mum, who is always getting in a cuddle