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Practical Jokes. If we don’t get back soon, we’ll lose the fine art of rearranging the keys on a colleague’s keyboards, supergluing coffee cups to desks and attaching airhorns to office chairs. Gossip. Seriously, it’s not just the same at home. My wife was recently telling me about some creepy old guy she works with…

I shall stop exaggerating I shall stop wearing track pants in public… …and start wearing pants on Zoom calls I shall stop telling my wife she is married to a sex God – just a God will do I shall feel the top of my head before asking if anyone has seen my glasses? I…

I recently read an eighteenth-century economic paper on productivity entitled See-Saw Margery Daw. The central premise is that if Jack could just work quicker, he’d make more money. On the surface, it makes sense. But every time I try and work faster my mind spins like a top. All of a sudden, I’m bouncing between…

I’ve found that one of the advantages of having a mental illness that lasts a lifetime, is that you get good at sensing changes. A dip towards depression or a potential manic high can be felt and dealt with quickly, thanks to professional help and finely-tuned medication. Now I appreciate not everyone is an old…

It didn’t take a global pandemic for me to start spending a lot of time living in my head. I’ve done it for years. I’ve never been sure whether it’s part of my mental health, my personality, or my love of writing. Whatever, I don’t think it’s all that healthy for you. One thing I…

Building a culture in your workplace where employees feel safe to call out biases and behaviours needs to be a key priority of senior leadership teams, not just an action for the HR team to address. Enough is enough! He may be your closest work colleague but the regular wolf whistles directed at females on…

Working in the People and Culture space I am often asked as to how to best support clients from a mental health perspective. Okay, we have experienced unique scenarios…