Leaders in East Anglia attended a major conference which put put wellbeing at the heart of leadership in the region on Mental Health Awareness Week. The event took place on Tuesday 15 May at The Space, Norwich and was attended by 80 guests and had a range of speakers from Adnams, Nelsonspirit, Yellow Brick Road, Aviva, The Engaging People Company and the UEA.

1. WELLBEING AT WORK
LEADERS IN WELLBEING
WELCOME!
Please take your seats, the event will be starting momentarily

2. This Event is Proudly Sponsored By:

3. Welcome and Introduction to
Mindfulness

4. Mindfulness means
Paying attention in a particular
way, on purpose, in the present
moment, non-judgementally.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

5. The Science – Why Mindfulness in the
workplace is so important
Emotion
Management &
Problem Solving
Pre-frontal cortex
Increased grey matter
Decrease in
Anxiety & Fear
Amygdala, fight or
flight centre decreased
in size
Improved Learning
& Memory
Increased cortical
thickness of
Hippocampus
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6. Stuart Rimmer
Principal and CEO
East Coast College
s.rimmer@eastcoast.ac.uk
@coachinception
Gemma Sandwell
Mindfulness Teacher and
Leadership Capability People
Function at Aviva
gemma.sandwell@aviva.com
@gemmasandwell
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7. “ACTION STATIONS!
Dealing with stress, mental
health and performance.”

8. Nigel Cushion
Founder of Nelsonspirit
nigel@nelsonspirit.co.uk
@nelsonspirit

9. Performance
Stress
Stress =
But some stress =

10. Performance
Stressed - Wellbeing - MHA
Stress
Severe?
Sustained? XStress

11. 1 on 1?
32-15

13. Thank you
Nigel Cushion
Founder of Nelsonspirit
nigel@nelsonspirit.co.uk
@nelsonspirit
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14. Discovering personal productivity
through wellbeing

17. Photo by Charles Deluvio
🇵🇭🇨🇦 on Unsplash

24. Staff Engagement

25. Customer Love

26. Environmental Performance

27. Profits

33. Ian Hacon
Founder of Yellow Brick Road
ian.hacon@yellowbrickroad.co.uk
@ianhacon
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34. “Coaching Moments”
Activity

35. Refreshments and Building our
“Wellbeing Wall”

36. The Adnams Wellbeing Journey -
Using Wellbeing to Enable
Change

37. Some
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580
75
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Numbers
8
6.5
4/3/3/3
25ish
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38. Our Approach to Well Being
•Fit with our wider business model
•Build skills
•Deliver business goals
•Focus on behaviours
•Omnipresent
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39. Our Challenges
•Financial Constraints
•Multi Site Business
•Diverse workforce
•Physical constraints
•Communication
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40. We have really tried!
Nordic Walking, Weight Loss Clubs, Yoga, Walking
Meetings, Running Groups, Cycling Groups, Rowing
Competitions, Juice Machines, Mental Health
Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, Mindfulness,
Health Checks, Massage Therapies, Holistic
Therapies, Hypnosis, Free Fruit………….
(Employee Assistance Programme, Flexible
Working, Occupational Health, Health Care Plan)
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41. What we learnt
•Collective responsibility
•Must be embedded
•Has to evolve
•One essential element
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42. The essential element
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43. What you gain
•Increased Engagement
•Enhanced Employer Brand
•Increased productivity
•Increased customer satisfaction – and spend!
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44. “It really is too expensive, we simply don’t have any budget for it”
It doesn’t have to cost ANYTHING!
“We’ve tried but only a few people engaged with it”
It doesn’t matter if you don’t engage all the people all the time
“Our business is too small / complicated / unique”
There is always something that will work – be creative
“We don’t have anyone who can organise it”
This has to be owned by everyone – it’s not an HR responsibility
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45. The essential part
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46. Sadie Lofthouse
Director of Culture and
Performance at Adnams
Sadie.lofthouse@adnams.co.uk
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47. The Impact of Wellbeing on
Leadership

48. Aviva: Public Wellbeing@Aviva
A whole lot of Wellbeing!
Katherine Billingham-Mohamed

49. Aviva: Public

50. Aviva: Public
Wellbeing – why bother?
• What happens when you listen to your people and respond to their need?
• It’s all about data!
• Mental ill health cases are on the increase
• Healthy & Happy employees = happy customers
• I can’t afford it / it’s not where I would choose to invest my money

51. Aviva: Public
Here’s what we created

52. Aviva: Public Wellbeing@Aviva
Our Health Heroes

53. Aviva: Public

54. Aviva: Public Wellbeing@Aviva
Purpose
Passion
Present
Progress
Positive

55. Aviva: Public

56. Katherine Billingham Mohamed
People Function at Aviva
katherine.billingham-mohamed@aviva.com
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57. Increasing People Satisfaction

59. “It’s a nice
to have”.
“Where do
I start?”

61. Happy, motivated,
engaged employees
Physical Community

62. “How do we
engage
people?”
“I don’t do
stress.”

63. It started with me.
It starts with you.

64. Michelle Gant
Director of the Engaging People Company
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65. Wellbeing at Work – Challenging
the Rhetoric and Recognising
Realities

66. Wellbeing at Work
Challenging the Rhetoric and Recognising the
Realities
Professor Kevin Daniels
@whatworksWB
@WorkLearnWell
www.whatworkswellbeing.org.uk

67. 67
unemployment
Low
wellbeing
– can get
stuck
Poor jobs
for the
young
worsens
wellbeing
Job training Adult
learning
Self-confidence
Self-efficacy
Skill/capability
Personal
resources
Social & relational capital
SWB
Community engagement

68. GOOD
MANAGEMENT
GOOD SOCIAL
RELATIONS
HWB
PROGRAMME
HELP FOR
THOSE
STRUGGLING
QUALITY
WORK &
SUPPORTING
HRM
Bridging jobs
Preventing
involuntary
early retirement
“We just want you to fire a magic bullet
and make our lives better!”
Invest time in actions
Visioning and planning
Understanding your workforce
Skilled in people management
Learning organisation
Change is an opportunity

69. Consistency and coherence with company values
Things don’t get in the way
Part of every day conversations
Considered in major decisions
We want to help
BEIS and DWP want to help us to
support (smaller) businesses
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What Brings It All Together?

70. Kevin Daniels
UEA Professor of Organisational Behaviour and
leader of the Work, Learning and Wellbeing
evidence programme for the Economic and Social
Research Council funded What Works Wellbeing
Centre
Kevin.Daniels@uea.ac.uk
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71. Plenary – What Next?
Table Activity

72. Thank you for attending today,
please enjoy the lunch!