This PDF guide from Unilever has been designed to help line managers to start one-on-one conversations with their teams about how they are feeling about their return to work after a long period of working from home or furlough.
Unilever
Unilever produces over 400 brands of food, drink, beauty, personal care and household products. Its aim is for every product to make a positive impact on the lives of the people who buy them. Its products are sold in more than 190 countries and it employes 155,000 people.
As one of the founding partners of Heads Together and of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, the company has a particular focus on employee wellbeing. Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan underpins the company’s strategy and one of the commitments is to help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020.
Resources from this organisation:
Active meetings
This one-page guide from Unilever outlines one way to include physical activity in meetings, by changing them from the traditional sitting-down format into walking meetings.
Active travel
This one-page guide from Unilever explores some ways that you can include physical activity into your routine even if you spend a lot of time travelling.
Focus
This one-page PDF from Unilever explores ways of helping you to regain your focus, allowing you to give tasks your undivided attention.
Active wellbeing
This one-page guide from Unilever explores some ways that you can include physical activity in your day - including at work, during your commute, and at home.
Sleep hygiene
A good night’s sleep refuels, revitalises and re-energises you, making you feel refreshed, positive and equipped to cope with the stresses of a normal day. This guide makes some suggestions on how you might improve the quality of your sleep.
Active workplace
Getting active can help boost your mood, as well as helping to keep you mentally and physically healthy. This one-page guide from Unilever suggests some ways in which you can include more activity in your working day.
Active mobile working
Taking part in regular physical activity is one way of boosting your mood and looking after your health. This one-page PDF guide from Unilever explores ways that mobile and home workers can break up long periods of sitting without disrupting their work.
Importance of being active
This one-page PDF from Unilever suggests three tests you can perform to test your own flexibility and balance, which are key indicators of your physical health.
Line manager mental wellbeing training
This PDF is part of a mental health and wellbeing programme in Unilever. Its aim is to increase your awareness of employee emotional health and how to prevent stress in the workplace.
Collaboration
Collaboration is all about getting the best results and the best possible result through working together. Good collaboration supports positive mental health, as effective teamwork can reduce stress and keep workloads manageable.
Energy recovery
This one-page PDF guide covers how to build energy recovery into your day, including tips on what to eat, what helpful breaks are, and listening to signals from your body.
Unilever’s wellbeing playbook
This is an example of a document Unilever produced for their employees who attended a workshop, with ideas and suggestions for activities through the year.
Demands and pressures
Pressure can be a good thing, helping to keep us motivated and aware of the impact of your actions. However, if the pressure is inappropriate or too strong, it can result in stress.
Empowerment
Unilever defines empowerment as taking personal responsibility for your choices. When people feel empowered, they feel better able to manage their workload, so can result in lower stress and anxiety.
Active happiness
This one-page PDF from Unilever covers simple ways to increase the amount of exercise you do - from fitting in a walking break with your colleagues to starting DIY projects.
Purpose
This guide can help you and you colleagues discover your purpose, and ensure you are working towards it every day.
Emotional energy
This PDF guide from Unilever explains what emotional energy is, and how it interacts with your wellbeing.
Sleep enablers and preventers
This one-page PDF offers advice on what behaviours can help you to have a good night's sleep, and which habits you might want to change.
Adaptability
Adaptability is the ability to modify and change your thoughts, emotions and behaviours in response to change. When you and your colleagues are adaptable, you are able to better cope with stressful situations. This brief guide has advice that can help.
Sleep and lifestyle choices
This two-page PDF from Unilever explains how some common lifestyle choices - caffeine, alcohol, smoking and exercise - might affect how well we sleep.
Sleep and mental health
This one-page PDF fact sheet from Unilever highlights some of the reasons why poor mental health and sleep deprivation are linked, and offers techniques for improving the amount and quality of your sleep.
Sleep and shift work
Good sleep helps you to be able to cope with stress more effectively, and is important for memory and focus. However, for shift workers, getting a good sleep can be difficult. This guide has tips that can help.
Sleep and travel
This one-page PDF guide includes tips on how to prepare for an upcoming trip, how to reduce jetlag quickly, and what to eat to counter the effects of travel.
Sleep and food
Sleep and our mental health are closely related. This one-page PDF guide from Unilever explains the relationship between what we eat and drink and how well we sleep.