In 2017, Georgie Mack co-founded the mental health charity Minds @ Work. Her goal was to normalise long-overdue conversations around mental health in the workplace. She also wanted employers to examine how their workplaces were contributing to anxiety, stress and mental ill-health.
We’ve come a long way since then. Today workforce health and wellbeing are priority agenda items for any discerning internal communication and engagement team.
But a primary societal fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is a marked rise in anxiety and low mood.
In this special episode, recorded to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Jen, Dom and Cat chat with Georgie about what more employers should be doing to address mental health issues at work. And of course, the opportunity for internal communicators to add even more value in this vital area.
This report - authored by MA Internal Communication Management Graduate May Oostrom Kwok - explores how internal communicators can support and contribute to a neuroinclusive culture in the workplace.
Tracey Hewett shares what burnout taught her, and how internal communicators can protect their wellbeing by managing their workload and prioritising recovery.
Burn survivor Jack Holt, account director for IT consultancy Recarta, shares how visible difference shaped his resilience, career and mission to support and educate others.
Anthony Monks, PR director and internal communications specialist at ITPR, shares ten practical tips to help internal communicators support leaders, spot silent strain and prevent cultural cracks from spreading.
‘Busyness’ is increasingly seen as a badge of honour and productivity is regularly measured and rewarded at work. Despite all we now know about workplace stress, anxiety and burnout, we seem to be doing little to address the destructive pace at which we are living our lives. In this episode, Jen, Dom and Cat chat with Megan Reitz and John Higgins about their latest research, on the topic of spaciousness and how to find it.
As global stability deteriorates, anxiety is on the rise. Internal communicators must assimilate the wants, needs and expectations of increasingly diverse internal stakeholders. Only then can organisations harness the full potential of colleagues across the age spectrum, who are pushing back on top-down, centralised, and increasingly outdated, command and control management archetypes.
In this mercurial new landscape, internal communication is a meta-skill that increasingly underpins organisational success. Our quarterly people updates help internal communication professionals stay informed and think more expansively about ways they can deliver strategic value.
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