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Workplace Wellbeing
90, 000 hours. That's how long you will spend in your career, which is approximately one third of your life. With the demands work places on us within those hours its no wonder why work plays a massive role on our wellbeing.
That's why I'm working with schools and businesses to make the workplace a great place to be.
Here's what I do:
My aim is for the workplace to BE A GREAT PLACE – staff feel valued, enjoy coming to work, bring their unique skills to life and connect to the business purpose.
I begin by GETTING AN UNDERSTANDING of your business and your employees and ask you two questions:
1. Tell me about your WORKPLACE NOW.
2. What does being a GREAT WORKPLACE look like for you?
Then I go to work and provide a TAILOR-MADE wellbeing experience for your workplace. This can include vision and values setting, workshops, leadership wellbeing support, all-staff speaking and events, or one-on-one coaching.
"To say our first session exceeded our expectations is an understatement."
"love working with you!"
Saxony Construction
Here's some examples:
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Wellbeing Workshop - Values and Connection
Delivered to a family owned construction company, the business had just established their values and wanted to bring them to life - which means they wanted to see them in action every day. It was important that each staff member (carpenters and apprentices) had 'buy-in' and explain what each value looked like for them. This wasn't just telling staff what to do, it was establishing every staff member's connection and ownership to the company's values. Together we developed behaviours (what each value looks like) and outcomes (benefits we get from the behaviours). In addition each employee walked away with a clear understanding of their own strengths as seen through the eyes of their colleagues - it was a feel good activity that is still talked about! The company now explains their values to new employees and contractors 'this is who we are and this is what we do'. They have even referred to their values and behaviours in times of challenge to help remind them what's really important to them.
Guest Speaker - Wellbeing Support
Speaking to 150 Education staff, I shared wellbeing tips each person can use in their own lives. I talked about my life experience and how my own wellbeing strategies supported me in the most difficult time of my life, my wife's 12 year cancer journey prior to her death in 2023. I explained how life lessons, values, and daily intentions formed my approach to care for myself, my wife, and my children as best I could and this approach is still supporting me now. Based on a theme of joy, kindness, and love, I highlighted how important these values are to me, how I apply them every day, and how each person in the audience can adopt a similar approach. Perhaps the most important message was recognising where each person spends their energy caring for and serving others as opposed to looking after their own needs. Each staff member walked away with a simple method to prioritise their own needs, amongst the needs of others. The wellbeing strategies I discussed in the 30 minute presentation, are now adopted by my own clients, and are regarded as proven techniques that are simple to understand and easy to apply.
Leadership Support - Feeling Better about Themselves.
Working with a leadership team of 6 people in a science and tech team, the aim was to provide one-on-one wellbeing support to each person so that they could find better ways to balance their busy professional and personal lives. Working long hours in high pressure roles meant staff were feeling burned out, found themselves in conflict often and weren’t enjoying their positions as they did when they first commenced. The impact for the company was significant given each staff member were managing 10+ staff each. Beginning with getting to know each person’s ‘story’ and then what is front of their mind, I was able to develop some simple wellbeing techniques they could apply straight away, both in the workplace and in their personal lives. My approach was to focus on life lessons, values, and daily intentions, firstly using my own examples and applying them in the context of each person’s life. After a few individual sessions, each team leader claimed they now had wellbeing supports they could easily apply, both at home and in the workplace, as well as alternate ways to look at their life which helped them manage challenges and stress.
Here's what people say
We engaged Mark to bring our thoughts to life. He created a custom program for us to identify what our values mean to every person in our workplace & what this actually looks like in action when we are working.
To say our first session exceeded our expectations is an understatement, to have our team of carpenters & apprentices openly identify each other’s personal strengths and then look at actionable ways we can ensure our workplace is a space where our values and wellbeing are at the forefront was amazing.
Thank you, thank you 🙌 love working with you!
