In the Media
Workplace Wellness or Branding Charade: The Workplace Wellbeing Debate
Lesley answers some of these questions on our site, or as part of the conversation:
I gave a brief introduction about your background, Can you let
listeners know more about your background? Could you explain what workplace wellbeing is? Why is it important to have a wellbeing program in a company? Can workplace wellbeing be seen as an element of a company's brand identity?
Read more and listen here.
Productivity Paranoia | Business author says this is the key to growth - but is it a toxic mindset?
“Let’s not confuse paranoia with conscientiousness!” counters WorkingWell’s Vicky Smith. “We want conscientious employees who are considered, thoughtful and thorough, who are motivated to deliver high quality outputs.”
Read more at HR Grapevine.
The M&S boss is right – executives need to get their hands dirty
Senior leaders need to get out of the boardroom and onto the checkouts, says M&S boss Stuart Machin – or risk failing their appraisals. Read more at The Independent where WorkingWell’s CEO Lesley Cooper weighs in.
From Burnout to Bliss: Building a culture of well-being
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out at work? We know how tough that can be, and this week's guest Lesley Cooper is here to help you leap from burnout to bliss. Lesley is the proud owner of WorkingWell Limited, which helps businesses across the globe create engaged and energised cultures whilst supporting sustainable and healthy performance levels.
Get ready to discover how employee well-being and performance are increasingly intertwined within the modern workplace. Lesley shares fascinating insights on creating a psychologically safe culture and emphasises the importance of addressing work-related stress, recognising internal narratives, and prioritising physical and emotional well-being.
Listen below, or at happier at work.
Pressure, Stress and Resilience with Lesley Cooper and Michael Glazer
Learn how to differentiate between pressure and stress, discover the benefits of resilience-building in teams and organizations, and explore practical methods to increase adaptability and maintain focus in high-pressure situations with WorkingWell CEO Lesley Cooper.
Listen below, or at People Focus Consulting.
A Proactive Response to Well-Being in the Cost-of-Living Crisis
In light of the cost-of-living crisis, the impact on employee mental health poses new challenges for leaders, who will need to guide the workforce through these turbulent times. Money concerns can have a range of effects on mental health, which may result in performance depletion. A recent study found that one in four employees said money worries affected their ability to do their work; including those earning higher incomes.
Read WorkingWell CEO Lesley Cooper’s article at CEO Today Magazine.
FIVE COMMON MISTAKES FOR LEADERS SUPPORTING WOMEN’S HEALTH AT WORK
With the recent rejection of the menopause bill by the UK parliament, a discussion into women’s health in the workplace has opened up on a larger scale than ever before.
Read WorkingWell CEO Lesley Cooper’s article at StartupsMagazine.
Marie Claire: 27 stress management techniques that promise to help
WorkingWell CEO Lesley Cooper is one of the expert contributors to a recent Marie Claire article on stress management.
HR L&D Podcast
The HR L&D Podcast episode featuring WorkingWell CEO Lesley Cooper and Nick Day who explore whether or not managing employee wellbeing is a job for HR?
In this episode we discuss:
🚀 How #employeewellbeing can influence employee performance?
🚀 Is managing wellbeing the job of HR?
🚀 How manager behaviour influences wellbeing outcomes
🚀 The commercial benefits of improving employee wellbeing
🚀 Lesley's top 5 workable solutions for managing stress at work
Workplace stress: turning pressure into growth
How can employers break the link between pressure and stress and turn pressure into growth, engagement, and performance?
Workplace stress not only causes lost sleep, but research shows that in the UK alone, stress is also triggering almost half of the workforce to look for an alternative job. Despite becoming a more mainstream topic, changing employer attitudes to mental wellbeing is still overdue.
On this episode of The AMBITION Podcast, Lesley Cooper, CEO of Working Well joins us to talk about her passion for helping companies, both large and small, to manage workplace pressure in a way that facilitates growth and development for individuals’ teams and leaders, instead of energy and performance defeating stress.
Worker wellness in the food industry
Bethan and Josh from New Food’s editorial team speak to Lesley Cooper, founder of WorkingWell, to find out how food and beverage workers can keep themselves healthy during an extremely pressurised period.
Bethan and Josh from New Food’s editorial team speak to Lesley Cooper, founder of WorkingWell, to find out how food and beverage workers can keep themselves healthy during an extremely pressurised period.
As the food and beverage industry continues to battle against unprecedented difficulty, including record levels of food inflation and worries around cold chain logistics, Lesley points out some key signs of burnout to watch out for, and shares some strategies to utilise if you are feeling overwhelmed.