The Hard Truth Series
Thought-provoking articles that challenge our preconceived ideas of mental health in the workplace.
The Hard Truth: The Reality of Disclosing Mental Health in a New Job
He can’t believe it. His dream job is finally his. The verbal offer came through this morning and he can feel the excitement penetrating throughout his body. He calls his wife with heightened exhilaration to tell her the news. As his body settles into the news, the...
The Hard Truth: Is Your Workplace Mentally Unsafe?
One of the reasons businesses don’t invest into mental health is because we have little to benchmark it against. Mental health has always been something we have tended to sweep under the rug. It wasn’t even until the early 1900’s that we stopped calling those with...
The Hard Truth: Are You Ignoring the Mental Health of our High Performers?
It was that time of year again – performance reviews. The managers were discussing the team’s work from throughout the year, talking through each employee, figuring out who was performing and who perhaps wasn’t. They had gone through most of the team with one employee...
The Hard Truth: Where organisations are going wrong in addressing mental health
Many of the organisations that I speak with, when I ask what they are doing to support mental health in their workplace, is met with a similar answer each time: EAP, wellness initiatives and, maybe if they are lucky, they’ve run some mental health awareness sessions....
The Hard Truth: How are we addressing our mental health in the new freelance economy?
It was a wonderful evening at Expert360’s debut community summit last week. The platform and work that Expert360 are building is where the future is headed – the land of freelance and consulting work with rotating projects and high-end talent suddenly becoming on...
The Hard Truth: Why are corporate wellbeing initiatives are failing?
The workplace wellness industry has seen a significant boom in recent decades with employers providing more perks than ever to support employee’s health and wellbeing. Traditionally, this has been seen in providing gym discounts, in-house fitness classes, and healthy...