The Mental Health, Wellness, Leadership and EQ Workplace Crisis

Yesterday’s article underlines the mental wellness crisis in the workplace and the fact that it is now at long last recognised at large by various big reports and, more momentously, the World Health Organisation has released workplace mental health guidelines, further underpinning how severe the crisis is and how imperative that something concrete and immediate is being done.

In this video we continue that conversation and we also discuss two other topics - how we, at PeopleNotTech have taken some time ourselves to recognise the existence of the crisis and then, how, if we accept it is upon us then our measures to diminish it must be effective.

We consider our readers here a team so we have every reason to believe we ought to be honest about our journey and learnings so we all progress and find solutions, this is bigger than all of us put together. So yes, we will be the first ones to admit we have ran too fast and have taken a number of wrong turns in our development of our “human work platform” aka our Team Wellbeing and Psychological Safety Dashboard at PeopleNotTech.

For a while we tried to create the perfect teams - crack dynamic teaming and perfect team chemistry. Spoiler alert - that was wrong, anyone attempting that is going down the wrong garden path, no such thing as the perfect team and should we have believed the Google research sooner we wouldn’t have done it;

We then spent time designing the most efficient leadership development tool ever so that leaders drive the Psychological Safety of the team - a preposterous idea that we soon realised was bankrupt as PS is a team dynamic of the entire group and as such it has to be affected by the group together and not any one individual can improve it single-handedly - which is incidentally why today we are so vehemently against workshops, training or coaching that advises that modelling vulnerability at the leadership level alone is even remotely sufficient to affect the team dynamic;