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Mental Health First Aid: The Critical Skill Set Every Workplace Needs

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However, the same consideration is seldom extended toward mental stress and strain—otherwise known as mental health first aid—and that needs to change. workers rate their mental health as fair or poor” and are four times more likely to miss work due to poor mental health than peers who rate their mental health as good, very good or excellent.

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How To Create A Happy Workplace? Business Environment Design Matters

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Visionary leaders recognize that an employee-focused environment promoting happiness and engagement enhances productivity, sales, and retention, thereby improving the company’s overall performance. Designs that incorporate active spaces such as stairs, quiet rooms, and learning spaces also support the hormone’s release.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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It’s hard to imagine Jewel—full name Jewel Kilcher—wrote it when she was just 17, two years after leaving an unstable home environment, moving into her own cabin and then leaving Alaska to study operatic voice at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. After school, she moved to San Diego. This year, it’s estimated that the U.S.

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Culturally Diverse Workforces Require Bespoke Mental Health Support

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There are barriers for specific minority groups to access mental health support in the workplace. Personalized mental health support is a solution to improving mental health outcomes at work, but this requires training, understanding, and insight into individual needs. According to Mental Health U.K., In the U.K.,

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Creating an Environment for Success with Dr. Adeel Khan

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During and after medical school, Khan discovered that people were focused on preventative care and immediate treatments rather than health and lifestyle tools that would create a lasting impact. Wanting to learn more, he traveled the world to learn from conferences and people in countries including Europe and Asia.

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When It Come to Employee Mental Health, These 10 Companies Are Setting the Example

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Mental health has been top of mind for employees and employers alike for a few years now. But some companies are continuing to push to improve the lives of their employees or their clients as innovators in the future of mental health. Here are the companies pushing toward change in mental health in 2024.

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Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Create The Safest Work Environments

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A psychologically safe work environment enables individuals to take interpersonal risks and organizations to become more innovative and creative. Psychological safety is required to create high-performing, innovative teams and to engender positive, inclusive and productive work environments where employees feel valued.