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How to be an ally to your LGBTQ+ colleagues during Pride month and beyond 🌈 8 tips from the wonderful Dr Anthony Newton 1️⃣ Educate yourself and others Read books, listen to podcasts, or follow LGBTQ+ influencers. 2️⃣ Don't expect to be perfect immediately Being an ally isn't about getting everything right, it's about listening, learning and supporting. We all get it wrong sometimes! 3️⃣ Put your pronouns in your email signature This helps create a safer space for everyone. 4️⃣ Find out about reporting processes at your work Make sure you know how to report inappropriate behavior if you ever need to. 5️⃣ Encourage senior leaders to be active champions Do what you can to get senior leaders vocally backing LGBTQ+ groups or initiatives. And if you are a leader, get involved! 6️⃣ Mind your business Don't ask probing or personal questions, but do give your colleagues space to share things voluntarily. 7️⃣ Step back and center the voices of LGBTQ+ people It's great to use your voice to support others. But there's a time to speak up, and a time to sit back and listen. ❓ What would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments

Who else is heading to the REBA Wellbeing Congress this week? 🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ We can't wait to talk to leaders in wellbeing, reward and benefits all about our favourite topic: How we can make work better for everyone. We'll be there on Thursday 20 June. Come say hi 👋 #REBAWellbeing

What does a good wellbeing strategy look like? 🪴🎧 Who better to answer this question than Steve Peralta himself. Co-founder of Unmind - the workplace wellbeing platform on a mission to create mentally healthy workplaces, where everyone can flourish. A clip from episode 5 of our recent Techspace Scaleup Culture Podcast 2024, where Steve talks about how businesses can adopt a more holistic approach to wellbeing in the workplace, as opposed to relying on mental health apps alone. Tune in on Spotify and YouTube: 👇🏼 🎧 → Spotify - https://lnkd.in/eyYSpjE4 👨🏽💻 → YouTube - https://lnkd.in/eFY5a6Xz #FutureOfWork #WhereChangeMakersAreMade #Podcast Philip Ellis | Jane Wakefield | Naomi Lucking | Jonathan Bevan | CEW Communications | Tech Nation | Marco De Novellis | Sam Binckes | Tessa Lin Wang | Mark Nanning | Gabriel Cox

Results are in from our latest scientific study 🔬 We wanted to understand whether our mental health training for leaders was really working, so we ran a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). We recruited 300 leaders from the US and UK, from all different backgrounds, seniority levels and industries. They were split randomly into two groups: a trial group that completed the training, and a control group that didn't. We measured confidence, knowledge and proactive behaviours in both groups at the start of the trial, post-training, and three months later. What did we find? In the group that completed the training... 92% said the training will have a positive impact on their team 70% had greater confidence in addressing mental health 63% were more proactive about supporting their team's mental health Read more about the study at the blog in comments 👇

"Managers are becoming job managers - you can ask them questions about how to get the job done. But we may be losing some of the people management, the people leadership." - CHRO at IBM Thanks to Nickle LaMoreaux for sharing your insight on managers and so much more on the latest episode of #LeadFromWithin with Dr Nick Taylor 🎙 Who's been the best people manager you've had in your career? Let us know in the comments 👇

Are you really honest about what motivates you? Whether it's money, status or being close with your colleagues, IBM's CHRO Nickle LaMoreaux says the key to success is learning what motivates us and owning it Check out her episode on the #LeadFromWithin podcast with Dr Nick Taylor for more nuggets of wisdom 🎙

Nickle LaMoreaux, CHRO at IBM joined Dr. Nick Taylor on the latest episode of #LeadFromWithin 🎙 Listen for Nickle's insight on… → The importance of finding a mentor → Why we need people managers, not just job managers → How AI will change our workplaces Get it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow the Spotify link in the comments 🔗

We don't wait until our teeth are rotting to brush them. So why do we wait until employees are struggling to offer them support? More employees than ever are seeking help for complex and often serious wellbeing concerns like burnout, stress and anxiety. Reactive, short-term support is only acting as a plaster. So let’s fix the traditional EAP and instead give our people Employee Sustainability Programmes (ESP). Join Jocelyn Pepe, MSc. RHC. and Laura Cheesewright for a webinar discussion all about: 👉 What employee sustainability is 👉 Why employers should care 👉 The benefits of proactive support and a whole-person, whole-organisation strategy All the details: 🗓 Wednesday 26th June ⏰ 3pm BST / 10am EST 🔗 Sign up link in the comments

From jazz singer and songwriter, to actor and coach, to startup co-founder... Steve Peralta is some kind of guest for episode 5! 👀 🎙️ Who better to speak about wellness and wellbeing in the workplace than the Co-founder of leading workplace mental health platform Unmind. I was fairly certain I'd like Steve before I met him 😅... and I was right! His purpose is to inject more heart and soul into workplaces is very similar to ours at Techspace and that passion certainly comes through in spades in the latest episode of The Scaleup Culture Podcast. Listen to E5 below on Spotify and YouTube as Steve talks about how businesses can implement effective wellbeing strategies, how they can get the most of of their workforce, and how the flexible working can help support your initiatives. Listen now on: 👇🏼 🎧 YouTube - https://lnkd.in/e4jmghVk 🎧 Spotify - https://lnkd.in/ei-C-KJj #WellbeingAtWork #Unmind #FutureOfWork Cathy White | Jane Wakefield | Sam Binckes | Gabriel Cox | CEW Communications | Tessa Lin Wang | Sarah Bone | Kim Stringer

As a leader, your primary focus should be driving performance and achieving results, right? ❌ Wrong. To bring out the best in your team, genuinely caring about their wellbeing must be at least just as important. Research shows that Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) is crucial for employee engagement and performance. It’s even been described as the “cause of causes” when it comes to creating a productive and healthy work environment. PSC reflects the shared belief among employees about how much their leaders prioritise their mental health and wellbeing. PSC has been found to predict: - Workplace stress - Engagement - Job satisfaction - Productivity - Creativity - Job performance As a leader, here are three things you can do to enhance PSC in your organisation: 1. Lead by example by visibly prioritising your own wellbeing. 🧘🏽♀️ 2. Make it safe to talk about mental health by speaking up yourself. 🗣 3. Embed employee wellbeing into your organisation’s DNA by measuring it as a business KPI and treating it as such. 📊 Ultimately, it comes down to genuinely caring, and that depends on seeing and honouring employees as human beings with needs just as important as your own. The truth is, being too focused on results can blind you to the obvious and be the very barrier holding you and your people back.