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- Who is responsible for staff wellbeing?
Who is responsible for staff wellbeing? Is someone specifically responsible? Does it fall to one person or one team e.g the leadership team? Should we nominate a wellbeing leader to be responsible? Does the responsibility sit with HR? Is it up to the individual alone?
Responsibility could belong to any or all of the above, and whilst elements or part of the responsibility may sit with one person or a team, it isn’t that simple. We shouldn’t be looking to nominate one person or team to take full responsibility for staff wellbeing, because, truth is, everyone is responsible.As we discovered in last fortnight’s article What is wellbeing? (if you didn’t catch it, read it here), staff wellbeing includes both everyday and workplace wellbeing. With this in mind, and knowing that these areas overlap both personally and professionally, the need for individual and collective responsibility comes into play.
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24 min - A Personal Wellbeing Reflection
Over the past few weeks, I have been reflecting on my own wellbeing journey.
Getting back to basics and asking myself 'What is wellbeing?'.
I have been reflecting on how I am living this, or if I am not, and what changes I may need to make.
What I share here is my own work on wellbeing and how it truly never ends.
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28 min - What is wellbeing? The information you need to know.
Wellbeing has become a buzzword in recent years, but what does it actually mean? To some, it is the pursuit of happiness, whilst for others it goes much further and includes things such as meaning, growth, connection and purpose. What is important to note is that welllbeing means different things to different people. This can make it hard to support, or even know what the other is talking about when we ask ‘How is your wellbeing?’.
Wellbeing, whilst complex and multifaceted, is also personal. Not only for individuals, but also for workplaces. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself ’What is wellbeing to me?’ or ‘What do we believe about wellbeing?’. Without understanding what wellbeing is, we can fall victim to seeing wellbeing as a number of activities to do that should make us feel better, yet, which often leaves us wondering: ‘If I am doing all the right things, why isn’t wellbeing improving?’.
Truth is, we need to look more broadly than the activities and events we so commonly do. Morning teas don’t shorten to-do lists, and yoga doesn’t address things that make us stressed. Yes, these activities may help us in the moment, and may give us tools or strategies to along the way, but wellbeing is not something that should be tackled with activities to make us feel better, it should be part of who we are, how we are being, how we work, how we interact and connect, and how we feel, not just what we do.
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25 min - Data to Inform Staff WellbeingAs the emphasis on staff wellbeing increases, and the connection between this and things such as teacher burnout, teachers leaving the classroom, and the need to attract more teachers to the profession is made, so too is the desire for data on staff and teacher wellbeing.
There is an influx of staff (and student) wellbeing trackers, apps, and surveys being offered and used in schools, with more and more hitting the market each week.
Yes, we need the data, but there are a few things missing that matter when it comes to using staff wellbeing data.Read more on LinkedInStay connected:
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28 min - Is de-implementation the key to supporting staff wellbeing?In education, we are great at adding things to our to-do lists, to our visions, and to meeting agendas. We add, add, add, but very rarely do we stop and take things away.
The need to always add more is an educational phenomenon. Do we do it because we feel we are not enough, because we are trying to keep up with everyone and everything else, or because we don’t really know what we are doing? Something is better than nothing, isn’t it?
Check out this week's podcast for my thoughts on how de-implementation may be to supporting staff wellbeing.Stay connected:
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23 min - We Need To Forgive
t’s time to forgive.
We know there have been things in the past that haven’t been supportive, well thought out or even planned for that have impacted staff and teacher wellbeing. We know that decisions have been made, changes have happened, and things were said that shouldn’t have been. We know some systems are outdated, and no longer work and old ways are clashing with the new.It can be hard, and challenging, and cause emotions to intensify as we discuss and reflect on these things. It can be hard to let go, to release emotions, and feel calm in this space when there are so many impacting and contributing factors that still exist. However, in order to move forward, we need to openly forgive.We need to forgive our leaders, each other and ourselves.We need to forgive the decisions that were made.We need to forgive things that were or weren’t done.We need to forgive change.Read the full article here.
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16 min - 5 Things All Schools Can Do Now to Elevate Staff Wellbeing
If you have read my book, you will know one of the chapters focuses on the mistakes we have made regarding teacher wellbeing. I included this because, to move forward, we need to have conversations about teacher wellbeing, recognise where we may have gone wrong, and reflect on some of the beliefs we may be holding onto that we no longer need.
This chapter is by far the most popular, and one that I get the most feedback on. Words to describe this chapter include bold, brave, and courageous (all of which I am very proud of). Interestingly, isn't this what we need in the space of teacher and staff wellbeing? We need people to be bold and say what others won’t, we need bravery to stand in uncomfortable spaces as others question us and we need courage to make changes when others see it as impossible.
In all the work I do with individuals and workplaces (schools), it is those who act boldly, with bravery and courage that are making the changes we need.
It takes boldness to go to a 4-day week, bravery to introduce flexible working hours for staff, and courage to listen and act upon what staff are saying they need, especially when these things are so foreign to the education space and how schools operate. Excitingly though, these are all things that are happening across schools and in spaces where people are willing to do things differently.
Whilst these changes might seem a somewhat significant place to start (and they are), there are some things all schools can do now to strengthen and elevate staff wellbeing.
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24 min - 10 mistakes we have made with teacher wellbeing!
This week's podcast episode is based on my favourite chapter from my book. I share with you the ten mistakes we have made when it comes to teacher wellbeing, and give you my current thoughts on each.
This could be a great episode to listen to as a team or whole staff too!
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27 min - Ways to Build Staff Wellbeing and Culture
There are many ways to build staff wellbeing that go beyond the traditional approaches. When we look to enhance and strategically build better staff wellbeing, we need to actively move past tokenistic, one-off events to building a culture that supports all staff.
Now I love a fruit bowl, yoga class, and fun afternoon doing team activities with colleagues, however, whilst these support some aspects of our wellbeing (e.g building positive relationships and physical health), they don't allow us to focus on or tackle some of the more pressing items that contribute to and influence workplace wellbeing.To create meaningful workplaces that support staff wellbeing, we need to understand and look at things that influence professional wellbeing and culture. How we work in teams, our systems and structures, if our work is engaging and meaningful, working productively; this all matters just as much (if not more), than cancelling a meeting when staff are tired.The more we positively impact workplace culture and how we work, the more we positively impact both personal and professional wellbeing. It's a win/win for all.Amy Green - The Wellness StrategyJoin ELEVATE
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Check out the TED TALK I mentioned here:
Christine Porath: Incivility - Disrespect at workplace.
27 min - It's OK to rest, and it doesn't mean you have to do nothing!
I wish someone told me it was OK to rest and that there are so many different ways to do so.
Rest doesn't mean just stopping or doing nothing. We need to rest in multiple ways.I struggled with rest for a long time as I didn't know how to stop or slow down, when I realised you could rest in a variety of ways, I also realised what I was missing in my life.No time to be creative, meditation was a task not an opportunity to rest, social events weren't valued, and I didn't understand the need for mental or emotional rest and how this could benefit my wellbeing.Now, I look for ways to add different types of rest into my daily and weekly routine. I don't wait until the weekend or end of term, feel guilty for taking a nap or starting a new craft project, and I value time to meditate and socialise.It's OK to rest, you just need to find the type of rest that works for you.FREE WEBINAR RECORDING
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About Rethinking Success
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Rethinking Success is where Amy Green asks the questions that sit underneath everything else, about the stories we've inherited, the definitions we've never actually chosen, and what it would look…
like to build a life and a way of working that's genuinely fit for how we want to live now. This isn't a show about recovering from burnout or optimising your morning routine. It's a show for people who sense that something in the current model is fundamentally misaligned, and who are ready to think about what comes next. Bold, warm, and intellectually honest, Rethinking Success is a different kind of conversation about what it means to live and work well. Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Wellness Paradox — a book that interrogates the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a version of success that was never designed to make us well. She is the founder of The Wellness Strategy and has spent years studying the intersection of work, life, and the systems that shape both.