Here are 5 resources we have found useful in supporting our own mental health at work. We hope the are of use to you too: Kindness matters guide – from Mentalhealth.org Self Help Mental Health Tracker – from Samaritans.org Wellness Action Plan – from Mind.org.uk Radio Headspace – from Headspace Little book of energy – […]
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Indeed.com have recently published a ‘Work Happiness Score’ as a feature of their advertised roles. The score is made up of 12 drivers of workplace happiness identified through their research: I’ve used these drivers to create a survey for you to evaluate your own workplace happiness. Click on the image below to take the survey. […]
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We’re sharing 30 days of free tools to support career and personal development. We hope you find these useful and share them with others. Work in Progress #1: More About Me First up is this editable PDF to share with your team members to find out more about each other’s strengths and how you can […]
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I really enjoyed diving into Matthew Syed’s book ‘Rebel Ideas’ and drawing out some practical career tips that were inspired by his work. Definitely recommend the book! Career Tip 1 Career Tip 2 Career Tip 3 Career Tip 4 For more Squiggly Careers tips, follow us @amazingif where we share them every day on our […]
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As part of our 12 days of Christmas campaign, we wanted to make a squiggly screensaver available to people to inspire them! If you’d like to get hold of your screensaver, click to download for Mac or PC. Happy squiggling! Helen & Sarah
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As part of our ’12 Days of Christmas’ competition that we are running @amazingif, we had a special meditation produced. Find some quiet, take a seat and have 20 minutes of peace for yourself. Listen here From Helen, Sarah and the lovely Alex who produced this for us.
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Our mission is to help make work better for everyone and we recognise that mental health at work plays a huge part in being able to realise that mission. We wanted to share a few tools that we have created that might help you to reflect, take time for yourself and invest in your mental […]
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Text to Audio The great thing about Squiggly Careers (one of them at least!), is that we don’t have to follow someone else’s path. In traditional, linear careers, there was a lot less variety and ability to personalise our career. Our future was predictable and to some extent standardised. Stepping off the path to do […]
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Does your day look anything like mine? Email. Meeting. Reading email in meeting. Eating in meeting. Grab coffee. Check email in queue. Need I go on? I hazard a guess that many of us are seemingly trapped in this cycle of ‘doing’. As work mounts up and time flies by, our addiction to back-to-back working […]
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It’s unlikely to be a surprise to you that the rate of job change is increasing. LinkedIn data shows that over the last 20 years the number of companies’ people work for in the five years after they graduate has nearly doubled, with the highest rates of job change for people working in media and […]
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Our engagement at work is at a destructively low level, according to polling company Gallup’s most recent Annual State of the Global Workforce report, with only 11% of people in the UK identified as being actively involved and enthusiastic about their jobs (four percentage points lower than the global average of 15%). This low level of […]
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When I worked for Virgin Management, we were asked a series of questions to help people get to know us better. Questions ranged from ‘what did you have for breakfast?’ to ‘what’s your favourite book?’ and one of the most memorable for me was ‘are you a planner or a daydreamer?’. As a part-planner, part-dreamer, […]
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