
We now recognise that measuring resilience is as important (if not more) as measuring engagement.”
– Treesan Boonma, Regional HR Manager
Providing businesses with people insights to achieve goals and manage risk
We now recognise that measuring resilience is as important (if not more) as measuring engagement.”
– Treesan Boonma, Regional HR Manager
An exciting and important step forward in workplace mental health with the World Health Organisation’s new guidelines. These guidelines promote an integrated and systemic approach to mental health at work with 3 levels of intervention; Prevent, protect and promote, and support. Its great to see the strong focus on the need to take a systemic approach through taking action at both the employee and employer level, with psychosocial risk management as a key strategy for organisations – something that has been a core part of the psychological research into workplace stress for decades now.
What does this mean for organisations?
If you’re looking to implement a workplace mental health initiative, the guidelines suggest;
More information
You can download the joint WHO/ILO policy brief here.
The full guidelines are available here.
Get in touch for a chat to understand how to implement a practical and impactful programme in your organisation.
Following the launch of AURA in 2015, it has been used very successfully in many organisations to gain data-driven insights into stress and implement focused remedies to build both collective and individual resilience. By pinpointing hotspots and shining a light on issues impeding resilience, which tend to go unrecognised, it has provided a confidential yet practical channel for taking action and led to real improvement in both the short and long term.
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Psychologist & resilience specialist, Rachel Austen has teamed up with a yoga teacher and wellbeing coach to run a resilience retreat in Snowdonia, Wales.
… Read More»“I have been on many leadership programmes and this was by far the most valuable development process I have ever gone through. I found it extremely thought provoking and had a very positive experience! My report was extremely insightful and a very accurate reflection of me. I have already started applying some of the insights to help handle a challenging situation I am currently facing.”
– Country CEO
… Read More»I was honoured to be featured by Profile Asia as a guest blogger, sharing my insights on this topic and drawing on their recent survey data which revealed 45% employees feel leaders’ response has amplified their stress levels.
In the blog post, I consider the business case for tackling stress and share some practical actions that companies can take.
Austen Advisory were delighted to partner with PWC’s Sean Maywood on a webinar for The Whitehall & Industry Group. Listen to the recording of our interactive webinar where we explored:
Feel like you need a little help building the reserves needed to not only survive, but thrive, through difficult times?… Read More»
At Austen Advisory, we draw on years of experience of helping organisations across the world build resilience. In response to the global pandemic, we aspire to help businesses and their people transition from a surviving to a thriving state as quickly as possible. To that end, here are 4 of our solutions that are aimed at evaluating, building, growing and developing employees.
It should be part of the normal management system of most organisations much as reward or health and safety are today. Sadly and misguidedly, identifying stress and building resilience is a rare topic in many boardrooms and is often only dealt with in an ad-hoc and inconsistent way after a crisis has happened. Many managements now need to exercise their proper duty of care for the mental health and wellbeing of their employees particularly with regards to identifying and quantifying the level of stress they are under and their levels of resilience to handle it.… Read More»