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Thrive

ESP’s wellbeing initiative aims to promote a happy, healthy workforce who have a proactive approach to wellbeing across the team. It is run by our Health and Wellbeing Advisor & Mental Health First Aider, Karen Brewer, who is passionate about people. Everyone has a ‘go to’ contact for any issues or concerns they have to enable intervention at the earliest opportunity.

If employees feel valued and supported they’ll achieve more.

With this in mind, ESP developed the Thrive initiative to ensure that, not only do you get to judge the organisation annually, you have a dedicated person at the end of a phone on a bad day and, of course, a supportive team to lend a hand. To date, our Thrive initiative has included:

– Annual 1-2-1 wellbeing assessment covering four key areas and looking at both physical and mental health.

– Annual collation, analysis and evaluation of the general results of the assessment, picking up trends and patterns.

– Board meeting discussion (where everyone is present) where the annual results are discussed to help us understand our wellbeing, and what we can do to improve. Measures we have implemented include:

  • Provision of counselling
  • Menopause workshops (for all the team)
  • Menopause online chat group.
  • Monthly online yoga.
  • Team ‘walk and lunch’ dates
  • ‘Stress’ awareness training and discussion
  • Mental Health First Aid presentation & discussion

The feedback from the team around the value of Thrive, which started in 2020, has been overwhelmingly positive. It continues to challenge us to improve the way we work together, helping each of us feel valued, supported and achieve our professional and personal goals.

Know Limits

Mandy Gutsell from Know Limits ltd, provides ESP the following services:

  • Coaching to step up into leadership roles and utilising the Enneagram Psychological tool.
  • Coaching teams using the Enneagram Psychological tool. Using the tool to learn more about one another can open up curiosity and increase compassion for each other. It can enable more objectivity about oneself and more subjectivity about your team.
  • Coaching to build inner confidence and reduce the impact of imposter syndrome.
  • Coaching to increase structure and confidence to have the courageous challenging conversations. 
  • Coaching to help HR/Well-being roles to look after their own well-being. In order to sustain the support, they can offer staff.
  • Menopause Awareness Webinars and training for Managers.
  • Menopause coaching groups to support employees though the menopause and how to manage the effects.
  • Mental health First Aid England training to equip designated staff with the role of encouraging mental health conversations. To be the first point of contact for an employee offering preventative strategies, sign posting and supportive resources.
  • Mental Health Awareness for Managers.
  • Therapy to support staff going through changes to help them function more effectively at work. E.g. Relationship Breakdown, Parenting challenges, Loss and Bereavement, Managing Anger, Managing short term stress and changes such as moving house, empty nest syndrome, and change in caring roles.

For more information on how Mandy can help your company, visit https://www.knowlimitscoach.com.