Wellbeing and Resilience Strategies for the Team

Be inspired to develop a culture of wellbeing and balance and a healthy attitude in your workplace. People who are physically healthy perform better. People need the opportunity to do what they do best every day.

In this course we cover two sections:

• SECTION 1: Wellbeing at Work • SECTION 2: Core Skills for Managers to Engage their Teams

Section 1: Wellbeing at Work

Organizations are increasingly noticing benefits of promoting the importance of staff wellbeing. This means encouraging staff to be physically active, work flexible hours and take time for private pursuits.

In this first section you will see three videos:

• Wellbeing & Balance • 6 Keys to Wellbeing • Manage Hygiene Boundaries

Wellbeing & Balance is a documentary case study video showing inspirational examples of wellbeing strategies. You will see examples of best practice organizations and learn how healthy people with work/life balance will be happier and more productive. You will learn to:

• Feel the benefits of exercise. • Offer health initiatives and activities. • Encourage staff to be active. • Be proactive about safety. • Implement policies for work-life balance.

6 Keys to Wellbeing is a video in which psychologist Eve Ash interviews leadership consultant Kylie Bell who explains how people can flourish and thrive in their lives. She suggests strategies to ensure positive emotion and engagement at work.

Strong positive relationships at work increase trust and wellbeing. Meaning beyond your personal gain will more likely lead to engagement. Personal meaning needs to be linked to the organization’s purpose. Expectations must be set and if not met, feedback should be given.

Wellbeing means healthy, more engaged, satisfied workplace teams. Martin Seligman’s PERMA theory describes wellbeing using five elements. A later addition (Health) gives both a physical and mental health dimension to this list – creating PERMAH. In this video you will learn about:

• Positive emotion • Engagement • Relationships • Meaning • Accomplishment • Health

Manage Hygiene Boundaries is a timely dramatized video about hygiene and personal wellbeing boundaries. We need rules for hygiene and best practice in staying healthy and ensuring social distancing, especially during a pandemic. Everyone needs to be aware of their own hygiene boundaries and learn basic skills to be able to tell others when they have crossed those boundaries.

In this video, you will learn to manage hygiene boundaries by choosing to: • Be aware of your hygiene impact. • Be sensitive and direct. • Agree on safe hygiene rules. • Manage personal boundaries.

Section 2: Resilience, Mindfulness & Emotions

Resilience is an essential skill in the workplace that can be learned and is linked to better health. Developing resilience is something we can all learn and is one of the most vital emotional coping mechanisms at our disposal.

Corporate culture has long stated that when you go to work, “leave emotions at home”. But that precept is changing: when leaders really tune into the use of emotions, they can be used to overcome conflict and drive inspiration, engagement and higher performance in the workplace.

In this section you will see three videos:

• How to Increase Resilience • Mindfulness at Work • Emotions at Work

How to Increase Resilience is a video in which psychologist Eve Ash interviews leadership consultant Kylie Bell and how to build resilience and reduce stress.

Kylie Bell describes resilience as “bouncing forward” from difficult or upsetting events. We can learn to process stress constructively and perform better because we learn to override our emergency brain and problem-solve instead. You can choose to look at stressful situations as challenges, remembering past successes as we go, and taking time for self-care and rest.

You will learn that resilience is: • The capacity to process stress in a constructive way rather than absorbing it. • Choosing to override our emergency brain (which responds to adverse events). • Clicking back into our thinking brain which is necessary to resolve problems. • Calming, which has a ripple effect for other people (as well as ourselves). • An effective way to de-age our bodies.

Mindfulness at Work is a video in which psychologist Eve Ash interviews leadership consultant Kylie Bell. With so many of us focused on the past (you can rewind it but you can’t change it!) or fixated on the future, mindfulness is a refreshing yet age-old way to focus on making your present count.

This video covers the many benefits of learning and practicing mindfulness techniques. Kylie Bell discusses a Roy Baumeister study which found that participants with the highest wellbeing were those who focused on the present. When people are practicing being mindful, they are less stressed, more youthful and resilient with higher productivity.

You will learn that when you engage in mindfulness, you are: • Focusing on the present without judgment. • Less stressed and more resilient. • Less likely to enter conflict because of feeling calmer. • Generating physical results (telomeres in chromosomes lengthen). • More productive. • More effective in decision-making.

Emotions at Work is a video in which psychologist Eve Ash interviews leadership consultant Kylie Bell. Negative emotions narrow our focus, whereas positive emotions broaden people to a wider sense of possibilities. We become far better thinkers and problem-solvers, when we use the full range of our emotions, especially positive emotions. We also become calmer. These emotions enhance customer experience.

In this video will learn that positive emotions: • Soothe physiological responses to stress. • Lift the general workplace mood (e.g. saying hello, being friendly). • Teach people to listen to each other. • Acknowledge frustrations. • Provide constructive ways of sharing problems. • “Broaden and build” our experience in the workplace.