JT Galloway

Right now, there is an overwhelming amount of wellbeing portals. You have no shortage of choices out there with basic one-off challenge material, app-only portals, customizable apps, or even building your own. We get asked a lot "What makes any of these any more special than the other?"

So, most years organizations look towards outside help in order to help their employees "cut the butt" or some similar cute tagline that ropes in most people. Here's what you can expect:

While there is NO WAY to know all the ins and outs of an entirely new platform, I do think there are some staples that will carry most organizations further than others.

Just as leaders can tell if someone is just working for a paycheck, employees can tell when leaders are just there for a (larger) paycheck.

But as I read the headlines and dive deeper into the stories about the last 6 months, the more I began to wonder what was actually happening.

Over the past twelve months, how many of you have found yourselves working that little bit longer each day, having trouble switching off or finding it more difficult to address that work-life boundary?

Iceland is making moves to show the world how far we've come in efficiency, productivity, and even wellbeing...all by requiring their employees to, wait for it, work LESS.

Over 69% of employees said the pandemic had negatively impacted their mental health, and 40% were already battling burnout. This was only four months into the pandemic. It's now a year later and these numbers have not changed much.

Often, we feel obligated at work to do some sort of recognition of this day. If you've ever tried to set something up with office politics and trying to celebrate each person individually...I feel for you. So what should you do for people?

I was overstressed, and in a place that had me searching for a reset.

This blog post though is to celebrate us, the collective us, and celebrate us making it. There NEEDS to be celebration. Not just from saying we survived the virus as so many didn't, but even making it this far for our mental wellbeing just as much as our physical wellbeing.

You're not imagining it, nobody seems to want to talk right now. Message are brief and replies late. Talk of catch ups on zoom are perpetually put on hold. Group chats are no longer pinging all night long.

I still remember that fateful day where it truly showed, during a point they would love to forget. Take a look at a post I wrote from a little over 2 years ago that Google just paid $3.8Mil in a settlement over

I'm not here to say EAP programs aren't good - but I will say they aren't the whole picture. Here's a glaring point:

Every year I set New Year’s resolutions but tend to give up after a few weeks. How can I set resolutions that stick?

There has even been a shift in priorities due to the recent pandemic. Let’s take a deeper look at some of the workforce management trends pre and post coronavirus.

Emotions don't need to control us because once they have been acknowledged we can move past them courageously! We are in a season of uncertainty and with that will come emotions that we have never felt before.

Technology. It’s a word that conjures up thoughts of a love-hate relationship. Living in a tech-saturated world has its pros and cons. Am I right? It’s time we take inventory and deconstruct our relationship with our devices in order to build it back better.

What gets measured, gets managed... Now, with a more focused and intentional approach from companies in the field of organizational culture and wellbeing we're often asked, "What's my ROI?" or "What can we expect from doing this?"

most of the same things that help companies be stronger outside of a pandemic, are ones that help MORE during one. Here's what we mean

People now are having a strain on their mental health. It's no secret, yet, so many leaders aren't taking steps to address it with their workforce....To summarize, that means more people are having more severe and more frequent mental health issues earlier now that we're in the pandemic.

We wanted to give just a few low-to-no cost ways to inject some fun into your remote culture. After all, we all need more fun this year!

With so many employees remote, this will force leadership in many companies to take a second look on profitability models.