Inspiration
5 Principles for creating successful goals
When goal setting is done, well, it provides you and your team with motivational objectives that outline what needs to be done and by when so you can understand progress against them.
Moral Injury and Being Trauma-Aware
While trauma comes from the experience of a threat to our physical or psychological safety or that of others, moral injury is […]
Supporting Staff through Trauma-Informed Practices
It is believed that the pandemic has increased the risks of traumatisation for many people including health care leaders and […]
Positive Reframing, Gratitude and Managing Motivation
This article contains some strategies for you or your staff to help manage the ongoing challenges and pressures in your […]
Caring for your own wellbeing and balancing your life
This article explores why senior leaders need to pay attention to their own wellbeing to overcome overwhelm and return to […]
Building Resilience for Senior Leaders
This article focuses on how you can pay attention to your own resilience. It draws on research and commentary about […]
Supporting others to manage stress recovery
In this article we consider what elements of wellbeing leaders need to focus on to manage stress recovery and how […]
Enhance wellbeing through ‘teaming’
Explore the concept of ‘teaming’ and how teams and individuals will benefit. As part of a wider session, this clip […]
Resilience and recovery
Explore the indicators of stress, citing tolls and how to make sure you can move through and beyond stress to […]
There’s no such thing as time management
There’s no such thing as time management, only energy management.
How to be present and authentic online
Digital ways of working have increased during the COVID period. What have we learnt that we can take forward?
Keeping myself and teams positive
‘Sleep’ and ‘rest’ are not the same thing and Saundra Dalton-Smith’s 10 minute talk suggests how many of us incorrectly confuse the two. Discover the seven different aspects of ‘rest’ that may help you and your team feel fully restored
Managing your energy in the workplace
Perry Timms, Founder and Chief Energy Officer at People and Transformational HR shares five tips to help with managing your energy at work.
All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
In this 9-minute Ted Talk Andy Puddicombe challenges us to do nothing – really do nothing. He explains why it […]
Can smiling make you happy?
Can how we use our body change our minds? Amy Cuddy explores the research in this 20-minute talk. She shows […]
Being a vulnerable leader
When we asked team leaders about important leadership behaviours in crisis, comments about ‘authenticity’, being ‘vulnerable’ and that it was […]
Does inclusion start with privilege?
Where do we start to be truly inclusive as managers? Awareness of your starting point could help. In under 3 […]
The Executive Suite and my own leadership and lifelong learning reflections
I have a long-standing admiration for the NHS and like many of you, I have family members who worked in […]
Emotional labour
Transcript [00:00:01] Hi, everyone. I’m here to talk to you about emotional labour. [00:00:07] It’s what you do each and […]
Supporting our working carers
There are currently an estimated 250,000 carers working in the NHS, many of whom are aged between 45-64 and so […]
Communicating with children about COVID-19
If you’re a key worker parent or carer, Dr Sarah Helps, a clinical psychologist and consultant family therapist at the […]
10 steps for managers in the event of a death or suicide in service
In the unfortunate circumstance of a death in service, we understand the need to balance sensitivity with the practical need […]
Going home checklist
Take a moment to think about today Think about one thing that was difficult – let it go Consider 3 […]
Tips for mental health professionals: Caring for people affected by COVID-19
If you’re a mental health professional helping frontline health care workers who are providing care to people affected by COVID […]
5-min Me Space
Find 5 minutes to ask yourself ‘questions that matter’ to help you to develop a quiet mind, and practice kindness […]
How to be inclusive while leading in a fast-moving service
The pandemic risks widening some of the health inequalities that we have been working hard to address in the health […]
The key components of effective teamworking during the COVID-19 Crisis
In this 5-minute video take some time to consider how to maintain effective team working during the COVID crisis. The […]
‘Easy to run’ virtual pause space
Thank you for stepping forward to run this ‘easy to run’ virtual 10-min Pause Space This guidance has been designed for […]
10 minute Virtual Pause Space with breakaway rooms
Thank you for stepping forward to run this virtual 10-min Pause Space with virtual breakaway rooms. This guidance has been […]
The 10-minute Pause Space script
Please stick to the words and the questions, which have been carefully crafted. Remember to have a timer to hand […]