I’ve been reflecting this week on excellence. Excellence is a core value for us here at Cognomie. As an internal driver ensuring we are always striving for better. And as a more external sense of purpose, striving to help more individuals, teams and businesses achieve more than they thought possible. And it’s been a personal...
One of our first recommendations for any organisation developing a wellbeing strategy is to undertake a wellbeing audit. Assessing the business, both in terms of the current wellbeing landscape within the organisation, and in terms of the current Mental Fitness status of employees, ensures that the developing strategy is tailored around the business and what...
Many conversations we have with clients start by discussing where their organisation is in terms of developing their wellbeing strategy. Commonly their company does have some elements of a strategy in place, but it is quite reactive. In many organisations, support is there for people who are facing challenges with Mental Fitness or personal wellbeing....
There are typically three overlapping models that tend to get used by businesses for leadership development. The career stage model – Businesses invest in an individual (or individuals) at a particular stage of their career, often later into their career when significant experience has been gained and sometimes associated with a promotion to a more...
When we first founded Cognomie a few years ago we were incredibly excited to make Dubai one of our first conference destinations. All of the founding team had worked in Dubai in various roles prior to launching Cognomie and all thrived on the energy of life in the region and the combined commitment to innovation...
We live in stressful times. Even prior to the Pandemic HSE figures for 2019/20 reported that depression or anxiety accounted for 51% of all work-related ill health cases and 55% of all working days lost due to work-related ill health. Over the last 18 months we have also noticed a dramatic increase in people reporting...
Hello, I’m Robin Cartwright. I’m a Cognomie coach. I wanted to share a little about my story, and why I’ve invested in Cognomie, because I want to encourage you to do the same. Bear with me, this isn’t a hard sell, but I do think it is an opportunity. A little about me. I’m an...
We’ve been thinking and talking a lot recently about the idea of duty of care for wellbeing and Mental Fitness in organisations. Historically the term has been used in the context of an employer’s responsibilities in terms of Health and Safety where it is the employer’s job to spot potential hazards or safety issues and...
Mental fitness always matters in the workplace but it matters now more than ever. Whilst it might be years before researchers understand the true cost of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that incorporating employee mental wellbeing into their COVID-19 recovery plan, will help leaders to ensure their workforce and businesses thrive as we...
How can Mental Fitness help create better leaders? Leading organisations in a fast changing world is challenging and requires constant agility and the ability to perform at the limits of one’s personal capabilities. Here’s 5 reasons why we think monitoring, managing and improving Mental Fitness is a foundational requirement for today’s business leaders. Improved cognitive...