Why Mental Health Is So Important for Success of a Business
It is estimated that one out of every five American adults experience some form of mental illness in a given year. So, this means that at any given point, it is likely that close to 20% of the workforce experiences some form of mental illness. With such a large number of people who have a…
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How to Cut Down Workplace Distractions
Employees can waste up to three working hours every day on office distractions. Personal messaging, reading the news, answering to emails, online shopping. There’s always something to draw your staff’s attention from their assignments. Reducing workplace distractions is hard work, especially if you don’t want to make your employees feel like supervised kids. So, quit…
How to Talk to Your Boss about Mental Health
While discussions about mental health are becoming more commonplace, people remain hesitant to have these discussions with their boss. This is, in part, due to fears of unfair treatment, loss of credibility, and being passed on opportunities and promotions. There are many misconceptions about mental health, especially in relation to one’s work ethic thus, discussions about mental…
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How Workers’ Stress is a Symptom of a Greater Problem
The modern organization is defined by stress. The workplace doesn’t just have stress, it’s saturated with it. There is ‘good’ stress – the kind that motivates people and is an integral part of any busy working life. And then there is bad stress – the kind that impacts people and erodes at organizational productivity. Organizational…
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Why Your Mental Health and Physical Health are Equally Important
Health practitioners always seem to remind their patients to exercise as well as eat healthy all the time to keep up a healthy body. Though this is great, they forget one more significant aspect that unless the patient is mentally healthy, physical health does not matter. The World Health Organization describes health as a state…
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How to Handle Being Bullied at Work
So often we think that when we leave high school or university, the turmoil of bullying is left behind upon entering the real world – the truth of the matter is, no matter how old one gets, bullying never ceases. Bullying is one of the few things that no matter how old we get, no…