Stop Stressing Me Out Victoria Smith
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Join Stress Management Coach, Victoria Smith, as she shares digestible stress less tools and interviews experts to help you thrive.
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Why Cutting DEI Budgets Is Bad for Workplace Wellbeing with Janelle St Omer
It's the penultimate episode of this season on workplace wellbeing, so we wanted to talk about what's going on in real-time. Companies are cutting their DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) budgets left, right and center. We'll talk a little bit about why that's happening, but also why it's the biggest mistake an organization can make. DEI and your wellbeing in the workplace are intricately connected, which is why I wanted to have this conversation today with Sr DEI Consultant, Janelle St Omer.
In this episode we talk about:
the many ways DEI shows up at work that you may not even realize
how it correlates positively or negatively to stress and retention
why companies are cutting their DEI budgets
why that is an EPIC mistake
what individuals, teams and leaders can do about it
what gives us hope
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Organizational Readiness for Engagement with Denise Lloyd
Engagement surveys. Love them or hate them, they're an incredibly useful tool to understand where an organization is at, and where their people feel they need to go. They're also a useful tool to understand workplace wellbeing. But how do we use them to their maximum effect so they don't become something that organizations dread?
We dive into this and more with Denise Lloyd, the Founder and CEO of Engaged, an award-winning, Victoria based human resource consulting firm that provides leading-edge HR services to organizations across Canada. Denise is a leader that brings new ideas and innovation to the way HR contributes to an organization and is known for transforming workplaces. Denise has over 25 years of HR leadership experience, has a Master of Arts in Leadership, and holds the prestigious designation of Fellow Chartered Human Resources Professional (FCPHR).
In this episode we talk about:
the core differences between engagement, pulse and engagement surveys, when to do them and why
the criticality of organizational readiness to seeing improvements to workplace engagement
the key elements to effectively rolling out and communicating an engagement survey and its results
how to diagnose stress and burnout using engagement surveys as a tool, and how to get to the root cause of a complex issue
and much more!
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Managing the Stress of Job Hunting with Career Coach Darci Smith
Job hunting consistently ranks as one of the most stressful experiences. It triggers feelings around self-esteem, financial security, worth and purpose, all massively important areas of our lives. That's why this week I wanted to bring Career Coach and Financial Recruiter Darci Smith to the microphone.
In this episode we talk about:
current state of the job market
tips to be successful in your job search
the importance in finding clarity in your needs and fine-tuning your search
how to keep your spirits up and maintain momentum
job hunting myth-busting!
navigating internal job moves
and much more!
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Darci's Recruitment Firm - Roklyn
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The Evidence Connecting Goodness and Wellbeing with Ryan Adams
We've talked a couple of times now about the connection between purpose, volunteerism and wellbeing... but where is the evidence? I'm all for evidence-based decision-making, so today on the podcast we're joined by Ryan Adams, the head of Strategic Partnerships at Benevity.
Benevity is a corporate purpose software that provides charitable donation-management, volunteer-management and grant-management solutions for corporations. It also happens to be my former workplace, and one of my favourite parts of the job was the data that was produced from the 1000+ clients and millions of participants. In March 2024, Benevity produced its most recent State of Corporate Volunteering Report and the data is fascinating, and for me, I couldn't help but see the connections between corporate purpose programs and an employee's wellbeing.
Ryan has a deep background in all things social impact, which we discuss in the podcast, and we also talk about:
turning implicit understandings about volunteerism into explicit findings
the push-pull between high participation and the quality of volunteer activities
the fine line between being courageous and cautious in your social impact program
the individual search for purpose in the workplace and how it ties to stress
the connection (to be studied!) between psychological safety and acts of kindness in volunteer programs
why hard economic times are NOT the time to pull back on corporate purpose programs
and so much more!
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The Book: Stress Less in 90 Days: Your Guide to Beat Burnout, Build Resilience and Actually Enjoy Your Daily Life
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Workplace Purpose Through Volunteerism with Jerome Tennille
Multiple studies have shown that most workplace wellness features don't actually make a difference to employee wellbeing. But there is one that has been proven to work at retaining people, giving them a sense of purpose and improving their wellbeing - employee volunteerism.
Today I am joined by social impact leader, Jerome Tennille, to talk about why employee volunteer programs make such a difference to our wellbeing, how to thoughtfully develop your own program, how we can better measure impact and much more.
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What Does HR Have to Do With Employee Stress with Michelle Berg
This week on the podcast I'm very excited to bring Michelle Berg to the mic. Michelle is the Chief Visionary Officer of Elevated HR, a fractional HR services firm that believe fiercely that work shouldn't suck.
To continue our conversation on workplace wellbeing and organizational stress, I wanted to have a frank conversation about what is the role HR can and/or should play in supporting organizations to reduce stress and burnout. In this conversation we talk about:
How the motto work shouldn't suck is their north star and what organizations should aim for
Whether or not engagement surveys should exist
Workplace trends regarding stress and burnout
Tips for transitioning employees back to the office after stress leave (and tips for leaders to see early warning signs in the first place)
Why HR may not be the team to teach leaders about psychological safety, and the role HR play vs department leads in building psychological safety
Why more part-time professional roles don't exist and how we can get to a more flexible workplace
And much more!
To check out the Less Stressed Leaders training go to impactfulengagement.com/training