MCB’s Wellness Blog
Cultivate, Create & Keep Calm in Chaos
Exploring the multifaceted demands on modern leaders, this blog emphasizes that holistic wellness forms the cornerstone of effective leadership. It elucidates how cultivating a balanced approach to physical, mental, and emotional health enhances a leader's capacity for innovation, resilience, and decision-making.
What is DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion?)
Diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) is a concept with many applications. Diversity training focuses on fostering functional knowledge of fellow employees' identities and the diversity and inclusion processes within an organization. This training format encourages employees to understand diversity in all its forms. In addition, diversity training teaches how to navigate an organization's diversity and inclusion process effectively.
Re-Building Relationships with Others After COVID Isolation
If you suffer from COVID isolation, it can be difficult to build relationships with others. It is essential to understand that building relationships with others begins with you. However, you can still isolate yourself. There are many ways to develop relationships. For example, you can try to build a connection with your family.
Dealing with the Fear of the Unknown
Dealing with the fear of the unknown can be difficult. However, several techniques can help you overcome your fear of the unknown. These techniques include the infinite game approach, becoming part of a community, hypnosis, and reprogramming your mind. If the fear of the unknown has plagued you, there is no need to feel hopeless about the future.
Creating Psychological Safety Nets at Work
Creating psychological safety nets for employees at work is integral to building a well-being culture. It can help employees feel like they belong and contribute to the well-being of the entire organization. However, establishing psychological safety nets for employees at work are significant commitment from senior leaders.
Transformational Leadership
The development of leadership skills begins with the orderly arrangement of group functions. The leader's job is to assign roles and tasks so that the group's members can satisfy their significant interests and motives. This requires influencing others, communicating effectively, and creating a vision that enlightens the group and its people.
How to Reduce Burnout
While the idea of flexible hours and eight-hour shifts may seem counter-intuitive and impractical in the current staff supply shortage, it's crucial for employees' psychological health and preventing the departure of key staff. Despite their seeming infeasibility, these burnout mitigation strategies may be easier said than done. Financial pressures, tight staff supply, and ever-increasing workloads can contribute to an increased risk of burnout.
Synchronize Wellness & DEI
According to the researchers at BrightPlan, "It is not uncommon for companies to treat workplace wellness and DE&I as separate initiatives. However, they’re not mutually exclusive. You can’t have an engaged workforce without focusing on wellness, and you can’t have a wellness culture if you don’t foster DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion)."
Black Women and Stress
Research on black women and stress indicates that the most common coping mechanisms used by African American women are problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies. In addition, African American women experience sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and other isms at work, which may contribute to stress and depression. To address these issues, there are many different strategies and approaches.
On Letting Go
The hardest part about letting go, is well, letting go. Letting go involves letting go of what no longer serves you. For example, a new job may require you to relinquish your previous identity and colloquial relationships with colleagues. Assessing what you can let go of and finding the courage to release those elements and start anew is vital.
Preventing a Toxic Workplace
Signs of a toxic workplace include high turnover, a lack of genuine friendships and office gossip. If you have a feeling that your workplace is toxic, you can take the appropriate steps to prevent it. You can start by looking at your gut feeling. A toxic workplace can be a dangerous place to work and you should consider leaving as soon as possible.
Setting Boundaries
Setting boundaries is a skill that can be learned and practiced, and it can help you maintain healthy relationships with people in your life. It can also help you avoid burnout and resentment. By following your boundaries, you are communicating that you are the person who should be respected. By practicing your boundaries, you can improve your relationships in every arena (work, love, life) AND boost your self-esteem.
Embracing Change
Embracing Change is a powerful mindset to have when navigating life. It allows you to embrace new challenges and opportunities without getting caught up amid uncertainty. Doing so will minimize your risk of missing your organization's next big idea and maximize your confidence level.
It's Okay to Fail
Learning from failure can be one of the most challenging aspects of life. But if you learn from it, you can turn a negative experience into a positive one. The first step is admitting your mistakes. It is difficult to acknowledge your shortcomings, but admitting them is integral to learning from failure. It will allow you to improve on the areas that you need to improve.
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