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According to the Health and Safety Executive, 12.8 million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2018/19.
Purposeful work tends to attract empathic, passionate, emotionally intelligent individuals, who often find themselves taking on emotional responsibility for others. Over time, such empathic, passionate and emotionally intelligent individuals can lose resilience. This, unfortunately, leads to burnout, stress and overwhelm, and can cost an organisation creativity, productivity, innovation and money.
Members of staff at senior levels can find they don’t have the capacity to serve their team, beneficiaries, trustees and the public to the degree that they would like. It can feel frustrating and overwhelming, particularly when so often not-for-profit organisations are firefighting against high levels of sick leave and high levels of staff turnover.
We know that a leadership team can do a lot of wellbeing work only to find it incredibly frustrating to implement new ways of being and working when the rest of the organisation is still holding on to the same issues, challenges and stories. Likewise, if we do work with the wider staff team, and encourage them to change behaviours and perspectives, the work can be lost when leaders and managers aren’t onboard.
At Bird we inspire leaders and managers to take ownership of their wellbeing and resilience, and to model that confidently to the rest of the organisation. We then work with the wider staff teams to equip them with skills and tools to support themselves and each other.
We deliver wellbeing workshops to all members of staff across an organisation, creating a collective sense of resilience.
“I would recommend everyone give themselves permission to have this amazing experience, to bring more happiness into their life.”
Eva, Human Rights Lawyer, Madrid, Spain
“I thought the first session was excellent, it’s actually such a privilege to be able to take time out of work to pause and reflect on things, something I know I should do, but often don’t make time in my day to day life, so having time set aside in the work day is fantastic. I’d encourage anyone thinking about it to sign up.”
WaterAid Resilience Programme attendee
“It’s fluid. It’s pure potential at work. And you get to learn about yourself… what is better than that..?”
Lynne | ISVA (Independent Sexual Violence Advocate), London
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