How to Build Compassionate Support Systems in the Workplace

The stress vaccine: how compassionate leaders thrive under pressure - make a difference - workplace culture, mental health, wellbeing

Are you juggling multiple responsibilities and conflicting priorities? Are you managing tricky team dynamics? Are you striving to achieve some work-life balance while being the best leader you can be? April is Stress Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the impact of stress in our personal and professional lives. If you’ve answered yes to any of the above questions, these are likely to be sources of stress for you. Your stress vaccine contains …

As managers, we usually have a company, a team and a lot of our own things on our minds – professional and private – that need to be sorted out. All of this often makes us feel overwhelmed and at the end of the day we feel like we worked, we were busy all day, but we didn’t do anything constructive.

How to Build Compassionate Support Systems in the Workplace

Your HR department — if you have one — probably isn’t doing enough to keep your employees safe, happy, and productive. That’s just a fact of the modern workplace: budgets are stretched thin, and so are your team members. That’s too bad, because happy, secure employees are also among the most productive workers, and the most likely to stick around. So how do you keep your employees functioning at their best, to produce the best results and retain…