Mar 8, 2022
If we didn’t already know it, the pandemic laid bare the fact that, as humans, we inevitably bring our whole selves to our jobs - including a range of emotions. This episode of Building Better Cultures focuses on mental health, which has taken center stage in the workplace and softened the separation between personal and professional.
Our guest, Niamh Fitzpatrick, a psychologist who works with business and sportspeople alike The pandemic deprived us of the ability to congregate among our favourite tribes (sports, entertainment, extended family, volunteer activities) but it also delivered a critical pause — a chance to get honest with ourselves and assess our priorities.
Our workplaces can be a source of the safety and acceptance on which humans thrive, particularly when leaders (themselves humans in need of support) foster cultures of openness and psychological safety.
This episode offers advice about how to recognize and respond to workers in distress; the role of communication and empathy in fostering healthy, productive workplace cultures; and how to bring out the best in teams by seeing, accepting and supporting the very real impacts of mental health.
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ABOUT SCOTT MCINNES
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ABOUT NIAMH FITZPATRICK
Niamh Fitzpatrick is a psychologist who works
in the area of peak performance in sport and business, helping
sportspeople and business leaders with performing under pressure,
confidence in business, resilience in the face of setbacks, team
cohesion and corporate wellness. She also works with people around
loss and grief and wrote ‘Tell Me the Truth About Loss,' following
the tragic death of her sister, Daire Fitzpatrick, an Irish
Coastguard pilot in 2017.
Website: http://www.niamhfitzpatrickpsychology.ie
Twitter: @NFitzPsychology
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