What You Can Do About the Mental Health Crisis at Work Get Reworked

In the past year, an invisible virus amped up anxiety and worry and threw workers into months of isolation. On top of that, long simmering tensions exploded into a blaze of social protests across the country, and the presidential election and storming of the U.S. Capitol showed just how divided society has become. The result is a perfect storm of conditions to sap employee mental wellbeing.
In this episode of Get Reworked, Andrew Shatté, pyschologist, author and chief knowledge officer at Mequilibrium, shares why companies need to get serious about mental health and start having real conversations about wellbeing at work. The reality is less than a third of employees will come out of this experience stronger and more resilient.
"There's absolutely no reason why we shouldn't strive for 100% of those people in our workforce to come out of this stronger if we take steps now and do the right thing," Andrew said. "And I think organizations right now are staring down a choice point and they do not want to be on the wrong side of history here."
Highlights of the conversation include:
Why we're due for a renegotiation of the social contract between employers and employees. Managers' role in employee mental wellbeing and how to help them identify ways they can help. The seven skills to build a more resilient mindset. How the skills we learn now will help with the continued transformational change ahead. Plus, co-hosts Siobhan Fagan and Mike Prokopeak wonder just how awkward their face-to-face interactions will be as pandemic restrictions ease. Listen in for more.
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