Resources

According to the World Health Organization, one in four people globally will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their life. This means that it's highly possible that one of your employees will come to you someday with a mental health...

"Wellbeing means different things to different people, how can I get it right for people at work?"   Workplace wellbeing has become a hot topic over recent years and many organisations have jumped on the bandwagon organising Mental Health First Aid Training...

In 2005 a young woman left home to attend hospital for a routine operation. Little did she know that this would be the last time she would kiss her children goodbye. Sadly, she never returned home. Despite being in a well-equipped operating theatre with a team of...

Ensuring your workplace is equipped to handle mental health issues amongst employees is a hugely important task. Mental Health First Aid Training (MHFA) has become an increasingly popular way to provide employees with a basic understanding of how to recognise, respond...

Workplace wellbeing has been a hot topic for a while now, with the pandemic increasing global awareness of work-life balance, hybrid working, and a living wage. Although this push towards a more flexible style of working can put a strain on business owners to upheave...

With workplace wellbeing steadily becoming a focus of businesses, understanding how to foster an environment that promotes team productivity and morale can be tricky. But not impossible - reports from the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity have...

Life is beautiful, complex, and challenging all rolled into one. It never ceases to amaze me how we learn to manage and grow from the complexities and challenges we experience in our lives.   Life can get complicated... But sometimes it’s not easy. When our...

May is Mental Health Awareness month and the theme for 2022 is loneliness. It seems no coincidence that The Thrive Lab's recent survey into wellbeing at work highlighted isolation, loneliness and a lack of connection as the main problem impacting people's wellbeing at...

We have heard a lot about stress and burnout in the workplace over the last year. These terms are now used on a daily basis by many but do we actually understand what they are and how they show up? More importantly are you aware of how to reduce stress and boost...

In 2021, most businesses understand that wellbeing is an important part of their cultural or HR responsibilities. However, while a lot of people realise that they need to be doing something, it can be difficult for managers and business leaders to plan coherently for...

We're running a wellbeing in the workplace survey! It's about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected wellbeing at work. Have your say here. The last two years have thrown into sharp focus just how essential wellness and wellbeing are to businesses up and down the...

Company culture is an extremely hot topic at the moment, with many businesses who have never invested time and energy in understanding and developing a company culture bringing this higher up their agenda. There are lots of changes going on across the HR and wellbeing...

Mental Health Awareness Week is a key feature of May’s calendar with events and social media posts highlighting the need to look after our mental health. One of the things that is important for our mental health is to feel psychologically safe in the environments we...

When it comes to workplace burnout, we don’t think we need to restate some of the obvious facts. We all know that burnout is an issue in many businesses across the country, and indeed across the world. There are countless blogs and huge amounts of research that...

At The Thrive Lab, we believe it’s important that more women break through into business leadership. Not just for us – we’re a team of three women founders – but for our children too. Between us we have six children, all girls, and for their sake we believe it’s...