World Mental Health Day 2023
Mental health, a vital aspect of our wellbeing, plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It affects how we think, feel, and navigate life’s challenges.
Building Workplace Trust
Being a close-knit team is fundamental to our shared success, based on a positive workplace culture, and our shared ethics and values.
Taking Responsibility and Ownership
Taking responsibility means acknowledging and accepting accountability for one’s actions, decisions, and their consequences, whether positive or negative. It involves being honest about your role in a situation and being willing to face the outcomes, both good and bad. It’s an important trait that helps build trust and respect in personal and professional relationships. Here … Read more
What is Executive Stress ?
“Executive stress” primarily refers to the specific type of stress experienced by individuals in high-level or executive positions within organisations. These positions often come with substantial responsibilities, demanding workloads, high-pressure decision-making, and accountability for the company’s performance. The sources of executive stress can vary but often include: Managing executive stress is crucial not only for … Read more
Mental Fitness
Mental fitness refers to the state of having good mental health and wellbeing. It involves maintaining a positive and balanced mindset, emotional resilience, and cognitive abilities. Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness for overall health. Indeed, mental fitness is crucial for a person’s psychological wellbeing and functioning. Life & Progress is an … Read more
MHR Workshops 2023
Our Mental Health Responsive (MHR) workshops aim to equip managers and team leaders with the skills and tools needed to recognise signs of mental health problems within the respective teams, provide support to those experiencing difficulties, referring people to the organisation’s EAP service, and how to foster a mentally healthy environment within the workplace. Here … Read more
What is an EAP? Benefits of an Employee Assistance Programme
It’s important that employees have somewhere to turn to for in-the-moment support. To make sure that your employees can get the right help when they need it, we recommend offering an Employee Assistance Programme, or EAP. If you’re asking yourself questions like “What is an EAP?” or “How can an EAP help my organisation?” then … Read more
What is Imposter Syndrome?
Imposter syndrome is a common psychological phenomenon where individuals doubt their achievements, feelings of inadequacy and incompetence, and a fear of being exposed as a fraud. People that experience imposter syndrome often believe that they don’t deserve their success, doubting their skills, talents, and accomplishments. If you’re experiencing imposter syndrome, here are some strategies to … Read more
Beat Procrastination
Beat Procrastination Although some people procrastinate more than others most of us are guilty of it at times. An estimated 20% of the population are chronic procrastinators. It is the act of putting off tasks until later. Most often we put off tasks when we perceive them to be unpleasant, difficult or risky but we … Read more
Break free from depression
Depression Most people have down days and feel a bit flat from time to time. Usually, these feelings can be managed but if they interfere with your life and don’t go away after a couple of weeks, or keep coming back, it can be a sign of depression in the medical sense. In its mildest … Read more
