Insights
Split your wellbeing spend in two and look at the ratio
Take everything you spent on psychological health last year and split it into two columns. Prevention, and response. Then look at the ratio.
Safe work is about life. So is the harm.
This year's Safe Work Month theme is Safe work is for life. The word life is doing two jobs, and the second one is the part nobody plans for.
Why most mental health training fails, and it is not the content
Almost every organisation has done some mental health training. Almost none can point to what changed as a result.
The mind is not the brain
The brain is a physical object you could hold in your hand. The mind is not. What sits between them, and why it matters for anyone who leads people.
The hazards most leaders cannot name
Ask a manager to name the hazards in their workplace and you will get a decent list. Ask about the psychosocial ones and it gets very short, very fast.
What happens after they say no
The question gets asked right across the country. Almost nobody has been taught what to do if the answer is no.
Most of your people are at the wide end. Most of your spend is at the point.
Most of your workforce sits in the widest band of the cone. Most of the money sits at the point. Those two shapes rarely match.
An EAP is three things. Most organisations bought one.
Ask a senior leader what their organisation is doing about psychological health and the answer is often "we have an EAP". Usually that means there is a phone number.