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Alison Jones on Workplace Wellbeing Professional

‘The beauty of exploratory writing is that it’s always available to us, and that it can be used in whatever way suits the writer best, so it’s highly inclusive.’

Alison Jones, author of Exploratory Writing and This Book Means Business, is featured in Workplace Wellbeing Professional speaking about the power of sensemaking.

Alison Jones: Stable wellbeing and writing – the power of sensemaking – Workplace Wellbeing Professional

What’s your favourite definition of ‘wellbeing’? Mine was supplied by a group of researchers from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2021, who defined it as: ‘the balance point between an individual’s resource pool and the challenges faced… Stable wellbeing is when individuals have the psychological, social and physical resources they need to meet a particular psychological, social and/or physical challenge’.

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Becky Hall on Mantality

‘Accepting yourself, being in the present moment and trusting in your resources, will help you to show up – as you are – safe in the knowledge that your authentic self is enough.’

Becky Hall, author of The Art of Enough, is featured on Mantality talking about how to establish an authenticity mindset.

How to establish an authenticity mindset – Mantality

What is an authenticity mindset? Being authentic is all about being true to yourself. It’s about making sure that what you do and say is well aligned with what you believe, and what matters to you. Our mindset is all about the underlying belief systems that that shape who we are, what we do, and what we allow ourselves to be capable of.

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Joy Burnford in CMI

‘The most significant issue for companies is the leaky pipeline and retaining women, supporting their progression into senior roles … Yet, there are practical steps that companies can take to enable change to happen.’

Joy Burnford, author of Don’t Fix Women, is featured in Chartered Management Institute where she shares three practical steps businesses can take to help close the gender pay gap: flexibility, allyship and coaching.

Closing the gender pay gap: “Flexibility is most important” – CMI

A quick skills refresher course to equip you with tools to make a difference Join CMI now to access While we all know that the gender pay gap is an issue that demands attention, I’m often amazed at how few businesses are taking practical steps to close it.

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Deb Mashek in Talent Management Excellence Magazine

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‘People who receive more professional development in how to nurture healthy workplace collaborations report higher job satisfaction than people who don’t receive that upskilling. They also feel more positively about collaboration in general and are eager to spend a higher proportion of their work lives engaged in collaboration.’

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate, is featured in Talent Management Excellence magazine speaking about how HR leaders can  unlock the well-being of their people and the health of their organizations by enhancing collaborative capacity.

Cultivate Collaboration: How HR Can Unlock Personal And Organizational Health

Organizations of all shapes and sizes celebrate collaboration as a value, a skill, and a way of working. CEOs deem collaboration a company-wide north star. Leadership teams include it on the list of company values. People leaders mention it liberally when recruiting and onboarding new employees.

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Lucy Werner on Publicover & Co

‘When working effectively, PR is a great free tool to raise your profile in front of the right audience. The more time you can invest in the preparation stages before contacting others will make all the difference. ‘

Lucy Werner, author of Brand Yourself and Hype Yourself is featured on Publicover & Co discussing practical PR tips for startups.

Publicover & Co

Many startup founders have PR near the top of their list heading into this year. If that’s true for you, it’s also likely that your time and budget are divided into hundreds of other buckets that are also just as important.

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Deb Mashek in ReWorked

‘You don’t need — or want — to appeal to everyone. You want to attract the right people.  This means you can and should signal collaboration as a core value out of the gate.’

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate, is featured in ReWorked speaking about hiring and retaining collaborative people in order to create persistent, high-quality collaboration in the workplace.

How to Hire Collaborative People

If you want persistent, high-quality collaboration in the workplace, you need people who possess the skill sets, mindsets and dispositions that favor collaboration. You must attract, hire and retain collaborative people.