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...
Nearly all of the clients we work with or speak to see hybrid working as something that is here to stay. For many organisations with multiple offices or workforces distributed around the country or globe, the sort of hybrid model that mixes office time with remote working from a home or “on the road” location...
It barely needs stating that employee wellbeing has never been more important. Our Mental Fitness and resilience has been under strain like never before. Employee recruitment and retention are becoming more and more challenging and the idea of ‘The Great Resignation’ is becoming an everyday narrative, representing the sense that people are ‘voting with their...
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...
Whether or not you think New Year’s Resolutions are a good idea, it’s pretty common at this time of the year for people to make plans for things they want to achieve or “tick off the list” during the next 12 months. Taking some time to reflect and to define these goals can bring reward...
Whether or not you think New Year’s Resolutions are a good idea, it’s pretty common at this time of the year for people to make plans for things they want to achieve or “tick off the list” during the next 12 months. Taking some time to reflect and to define these goals can bring reward...
Can embracing complexity help HR departments build organisational resilience? The last two years of the Pandemic have been hard for everyone in the workplace and at home. But certain workplace roles have at times found themselves facing tougher challenges than others. The regular conversations we have with HR Professionals about their day to day experiences,...
Can embracing complexity help HR departments build organisational resilience? The last two years of the Pandemic have been hard for everyone in the workplace and at home. But certain workplace roles have at times found themselves facing tougher challenges than others. The regular conversations we have with HR Professionals about their day to day experiences,...
The idea that Eskimos have lots and lots of words for snow is a commonly understood shorthand for recognising that the more familiar we are with something, the more nuanced our abilities to describe it becomes. Here at Cognomie we share the view of a lot of people who work in Mental Fitness that this...
