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To maximise your profit, you have to stop seeing your employees as a transaction and see them as an investment. 💼 Scalability doesn't begin with strategy. It begins with HOW people feel in the workplace. You can't expect to maximise profits when your team feels abandoned, unappreciated and overworked. 📈 Imagine the energy that would be unleashed into the workplace when people feel connected & taken care of, the brain influences how people connect with their work and the world around them. 🧠 When they are stressed/burnt out, they aren't going to feel committed to their work. When they have things going on in their home life that they don't know how to process, they are going to struggle to focus on their work. When they feel like profit matters more than their health, they are going to feel taken advantage of. ❎ How your team FEEL, matters. 🧡 When people feel good, their attitude to everything changes. 🌈 To kick off 2024 with a bang, we are offering tailor-made wellbeing packages for businesses. We will evaluate the current state of wellbeing in your workplace and provide a boost of positive energy. 🚀 Reach out to us today at hello@kuutch.com and start 2024 with a powerful commitment to the wellbeing of your people. #employeeengagement #workplacewellbeing #hrcommunity

#payitforwardfriday As usual my shout outs for the week. Lovely to chat to Paul Edmondson today talking all things people 😀 Been really lovely talking with Kyriakos Baxevanis about exciting collaborations this year for wellbeing workshops. We've had more amazing chats with Rosie McGilvray at vitality. Working to support their customers to embed the vitality membership and however can motivate people to help themselves. The start to the year has involved a mass sort out: in the business in my environment and in myself. Sometimes you just have to tip everything out and work out what's what. You can then re organise and reset. So many metaphors in my creative mess this week. As we evolve as business owners we sometimes spill out of our boxes, make mistakes and lose our containers. But this is how we stretch, grow and develop. We then value and appreciate the reset. Noone is perfect, the key is we learn from Mistakes, communicate effectively and reset containers. Being able to talk about the mess and redefine projects expectations is pivotal. How do you do this in your business?

Did you know that UK is the only country that has a weekly measure of happiness? We have been tracking it since the pandemic and it shows happiness levels rise every Christmas and we collectively experience post-summer blues! Moreover, happiness isn’t just important for the individual, it is good for business with happy employees staying longer and working better. A fascinating insight into creating happy teams and work environments from Nic Marks, the Happiness Expert this morning at the #ISErec24 conference.

The ideas I share were intended to help creators in the arts to create healthy boundaries. But they’re applicable to everybody. https://lnkd.in/gnzVdQXc Do you think I’m missing any? What would you add? ASCAP #Psychology #PsychologyTips #Relationships#Wellness.

2024 IN RETROSPECT Phew!!!! What a Year. I can't believe I thought 2024 was going to be my year. Today is 30th day of June, 2024. Six of the Twelve months already gone. Hey, don't lose hope just yet. If there is one thing I have witnessed and believe with my whole heart, it is that a person's life can miraculously and drastically changed for the better in a single, random day. Really? It isn't that bad for you to lose it totally because six months have already gone by? That is just a side of the coin, what of the other side? The other side of the coin means there are still six months left. Guy, that is plenty of time for a breakthrough to happen. You never know when a significant opportunity or positive change might come your way. Trust me, I have seen it happen. Sometimes, when things seem the bleakest, the most amazing transformations occur. Keep believing and stay open to the possibilities. Six months is more than enough time for your fortunes to turn around. I believe it can happen for you. Keep your hopes up. A Broken Crayon still Colours. PS: My forte in Virtual Support is Office Administration and Business Development I am Aishah, Multi-faceted and Multi-talented Skills and Proficiencies, Virtually Yours 30062024 #keeppushing #keepbelieving #stayopen Digital Witch Support Community Digital Exchange Academy - DEXA Leadership: Empowering Teams💪 Workplace Wellbeing Initiative (Global Wellness Institute) Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre

It is widely known that when your people thrive, your business thrives, but it appears to be much more well-known than it is well-implemented. Providing greater health and well-being, stronger skills, greater employability, opportunities for advancement, and so on, have to be taken off the back burner. Your people are your company, their health and growth cannot be separated from that of your business. #wellbeing #peoplesustainability #employeewellbeing

[Part 2/2] Recent discussions on health and well-being served as a powerful reminder that investing in ourselves is not just an individual pursuit, but a collective one. It's with this spirit that we embarked on the i30 WALK-A-THON Challenge, a journey that went beyond individual achievements and fostered a culture of shared commitment to well-being. It wasn't a race to the finish line, but a collective step towards healthier, happier selves. Whether it was conquering personal bests, supporting teammates, or simply rediscovering the joy of movement, the journey was filled with moments of individual growth and shared encouragement. While there may not be a single "winner" in this story, we celebrate every participant for their commitment to their own well-being and for contributing to a culture of health and happiness at i30. The true victory lies in the collective shift towards prioritizing physical activity, fostering community, and embracing a holistic approach to well-being. This challenge is just the beginning of our journey. We are committed to creating an environment that empowers employees to prioritize their health and well-being, both inside and outside the workplace. #i30learningcentre #edtech #bangalorestartups #bangalorejobseekers #EmployeeWellbeing #employeeengagement #employeeexperience #employeebenefits

#HLTH2023 – The Link between Workplace Culture and Wellbeing   Last week at HLTH 2023 in Las Vegas, Vision Health Pioneers Incubator Program Manager Darja Kota attended the panel “𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈” with Headspace CEO Russell Glass and LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. As #mentalhealth is moving out of the shadows, more people are talking openly about mental health issues such as #burnout. 🤯 In the US, 4 out of 10 workers report that their job negatively or somewhat negatively impacts their mental health. In Europe, mental health problems have become one of the leading causes of #absenteeism from work and early retirement. 🤔 How can organizations take preventative measures to promote the #wellbeing of their staff? While providing access to self-care tools is an important first step, investing in a healthy organizational culture is crucial. Ask yourself critical questions, such as: 🔍 How are we enabling people to take ownership and have agency? 🔍 What are we doing to create a sense of belonging among people at all levels of the organization? 🔍 What systems are in place to ensure your people have access to personal and professional learning opportunities? 📈 There’s also an important business case to be made: Investing in leadership effectiveness and workplace culture can lead to 3x returns to shareholders for top-performing companies and leads to higher employee engagement and retention, which in turn serves as a great attractor for top talent. Recently selected as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2023 in Germany, our alumni startup nilo.health is leading the way in providing comprehensive and accessible workplace mental health support. HLTH Europe 🇺🇦 Maren Lesche Niels Devisscher Habibe Çıkılıoğlu Sandra Buchholz Aline Noizet #HLTH2023 #innovation #workplaceculture #culture #organizationaltransformation

"Individually we are one drop but together we are an ocean" 🌊 Wellbeing done well is never achievable by just one person's efforts, It takes a team, it takes support and it takes the right tools 🧰 And having the right tools to be able to execute a mission in a way no others can is pretty powerful My main aim is to always provide value to our clients and their people in the best way possible, and making sure I collab with the best people is always my biggest intention So 🥁 roll please 🥁 It should come as a no brainer idea that Work It Well ™️ have partnered up with Hapstar and their team The strategies and solutions that we offer our clients is pretty special already but what we can now offer with the addition of Hapstar REAL TIME data is going to set us apart from anyone in this industry Yeah I said it .. SET US APART 🤌 You see Data is insightful but having somebody drive that data and use it to create powerful strategies is GAME CHANGING With the addition of data it now means that the tools we are now equipped with can 📈 INCREASE ✔️ Engagement ✔️ Motivation ✔️ Staff retention ✔️ Accountability Which will 📉 REDUCE ❌ Poor Mental Health ❌ Absenteeism/Presenteeism ❌ Costs & Compliance issues Whilst 📊 PROVING ROI PLUS ( With every £1 spent there is a potential ROI of £5 why would you not be investing into your people and your culture ?) AND Because it's REAL TIME data and BESPOKE to your organisation Wellbeing strategies can be adapted more frequently MEANING 👇 YOU spend less on what your people don't want and more on what your people actually NEED 👏🏼 We love what Hapstar stand for and can’t wait to see what their tools can bring to our unique offering at Work It Well ™️ First partnership baby please raise that glass with us 2024 is going to be HUGE 🥂 If you want to see what Work It Well ™️ can create for your business then get in touch I promise you will kick yourself if you don’t especially when you find out your competitors have ✌️ #justsaying 🤷♀️😜 Quote - (Ryunosuke Satoro) 🌊 #wellbeing #partnership #bettertogether #workplacewellbeing #mentalhealthatwork #hr #2024letsgo

This year's #iap2conference2023 was another success. Many insights and constructive discussions were shared in the past three days. Here are some of my highlights: 💡 The sector must improve our reach to First Nations people and the CALD communities. There is a general sense that the marginalised population is also the most disengaged in public decision-making. If we don’t hear from them, it’s most likely that the engagement has not been designed for them – David Bartlett CF, CEO of The LOTE Agency, has great insights and experiences to share on their work in this space. 💡 Face-to-face engagement is coming back. Communities and stakeholders value personal connections, respect and active listening, in addition to other accessible channels. GenAI will make a big difference but community trust is built on in-person interaction – this might be even more prominent for regional/remote communities. 💡 Engagement fatigue/cumulative impact is real. Dr Sara Bice and The Institute for Infrastructure in Society (I2S) at The Australian National University have valuable data from the past six years through Australia’s largest infrastructure and engagement surveys. It shows the correlation between community resilience and the volume of infrastructure projects, their impacts, and other environmental and social risks. 💡 What’s in it for me (WIIFM)? Lucy Holder, Customer Engagement Manager of AusNet, and Dr Michaela Jackson, Engagement Specialist and Honorary Principal Research Fellow of RMIT, shared the synergistic engagement approach to AusNet’s regulatory pricing reset. I asked them whether there was merit in expanding the pricing cycle from every five to ten years to ease investment risks. Lucy said that with all the rapid changes in the energy transition, customers are asking to be engaged within an even smaller regulatory window so they can keep up with all the changes. It’ll be an invaluable experience for any organisation to get Lucy and Dr Jackson’s insights into the AusNet engagement case study. 💡 ‘Meet them where they are, and land them.’ – this was the quote I wrote down at MITCH WALLIS' keynote about mental health, resilience and emotional wellbeing. As an entrepreneur and a leader in wellbeing, he’s now most known as the founder of Heart On My Sleeve. Go listen to his podcast and share it with your friends, family and colleagues because ‘Learning how to say “I’m not OK” can save your life’. Overall, it was an action-packed event and an important opportunity to build best practices and resilience within our industry. Congratulations to Marion Short and the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia. I can’t wait for next year in Sydney.