Resources

Terminal illness, caring for a loved one, and bereavement can affect anyone. Hospice UK's Compassionate Employers programme offers advice and support for organisations who want to look out for their employees during these difficult times.

Throughout the pandemic, there are new issues for line managers to consider. Mind produced this guidance to support and inform their own line managers. It's a useful example of the subjects you might cover with your own colleagues.

A wellness action plan (WAP) is a useful tool to help us identify what keeps us well and what impacts our mental health. This revised WAP has been modified to support you when you’re working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak.

In the last decade, there has been a rise in mental health issues for those working in healthcare. YOD aims to help doctors to feel able to seek support, speak freely about their mental health and be equipped to deal with the pressures of their job.

Randomised coffee trials are the simple idea of connecting pairs of people in an organisation at random, and giving them time to talk. This article explains the benefits and how to get started.

Racism can affect every part of someone's life. This series of TED Talks explores this link in great detail from a number of angles, and covers some ways in which we and society as a whole can help fix it.

If you'd like to talk to someone about what you're going through as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hospice UK have created a free phone line for frontline workers, staffed by Just B.

Bereavement is sadly something that can affect any of your employees at any time. Business in the Community (BITC) have created a webinar which explores the impact of bereavement on employees, and explains what organisations can do to help.

This short blog post on Engage Education's website explores what causes teachers to feel anxious, and offers some tips on coping when you're feeling stressed.

Long periods of home working might make you feel less productive or affect your mental wellbeing. This guide explores ways to tackle these challenges.

This guide from Our NHS People includes three webinars on the topic of supporting colleagues, designed to help leaders within the NHS understand the best ways to aid their staff through difficult times and avoid some easy mistakes.

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to understand the emotions you and others feel, and be able to use those feelings in positive ways. This guide can help you and your team develop your EQ skills.

Mind have created a web page filled with advice and support for you and your team to help manage your wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mind has created this PDF guide to support organisations to tailor their existing workplace interventions to support staff during the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

This toolkit from Business in the Community provides guidance on developing a compassionate and inclusive response to the impact of death, bereavement and grief.

Team resilience is your team’s ability to withstand and overcome periods of extreme stress. This guide from Our NHS People aims to teach you the basics.

This one-page PDF from Nuffield Health suggests some warning signs to look out for that could indicate someone is experiencing poor mental or emotional wellbeing.

The ABC guide is a simple set of ideas for maintaining and enhancing your personal resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal resilience is the way we cope with challenging and difficult situations in order to overcome them. This guide offers advice on improving your resilience and managing uncertainty.

This guide from Our NHS People is designed to help leaders and managers within the NHS to understand the importance of compassion and apply it to their role.

Psychological first aid is used for supporting people during emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. This free course can teach you how to use it.

This training session from the Hummingbird Project is designed to help your staff to focus on their emotional wellbeing, encouraging the group to identify their own barriers and difficulties and thinking of solutions that work for them as individuals.

The physical and mental health of footballers is scrutinised by millions - but for those who report on the game for a living, there are all sorts of pressures too. This guide outlines the issues, with advice and tips for supporting good mental health.

Trauma at work can have lasting consequences. This guide explains the effects of trauma using the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as an example, and discusses what a managed recovery time might look like.

It's likely that, at some point, you will be working alongside somebody who is grieving the death of a loved one. This PDF guide from Dying Matters explains what you might expect to see when someone is grieving, and suggests ways you can help.

This web page from Dying Matters provides information on finding bereavement services along with advice on how to support someone who has been bereaved, which might be helpful if someone in your workplace has lost a loved one recently.

As the UK begins to lift its lockdown, many people are returning to their usual places of work. This page from Mind explores what you might be feeling about the lockdown lifting, and offers ways to help you manage these changes.

This web page from the NHS is designed to help team leaders working in healthcare to understand the impact of difficult decision-making while under pressure, and offers ways you can help to ease that strain.

Working at home whilst looking after children can be very stressful. This information sheet is aimed at those working from home with school aged children.