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Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries and Equip Themselves for Wellbeing Success

By setting the culture, the ethics and the standards, influential leaders show that wellbeing, health, and safety is not just a compliance requirement but is a fundamental way in which businesses conduct themselves. They recognise that identifying and mitigating risks in these areas will help to create a successful, harmonious, sustainable organisation.

From Surviving to Thriving

New research conducted by Ipsos Karian and Box and published last week, reinforced the message in our recent blog, by British Safety Council’s Director of Wellbeing, Stephen Haynes, on the importance of leadership to managing burnout, as well as the cost to society and our economy of inaction.

Beating burnout starts at the top of your business

Some workplace metrics are easy to measure - from levels of profit and loss to rates of sickness and absence - while measuring levels of burnout is an altogether more complex task. It’s also increasingly becoming an agenda item in the boardroom.

How can we support the health and wellbeing of employees?

When we look at workplace wellbeing, we need to look at our starting point and where we want to go, what obstacles might get in our way, and how can we mitigate them.