Paula Allen - Wellbeing in your workday

Habits & Health episode 94 with Paula Allen who is  a Senior Vice- President at LifeWorks, trusted mental health & wellbeing partner to over 15,000 organizations around the world. She is the creator of the LifeWorks' Mental Health Index. We discuss mental health in the workplace and many other issues around mental wellbeing.

She is the Global Leader, Research and Total Wellbeing and a Senior Vice- President at LifeWorks, now a part of Telus Health and is the creator of the LifeWorks' Mental Health Index. Paula manages the research agenda for LifeWorks, which includes primary research conducted by LifeWorks, exploratory data science, research collaborations and meta-analyses. Given her focus on industry-leading research, Paula also leads LifeWorks thought leadership and is co-chair of the organization’s product and innovation strategy.

Timestamps for topics discussed in this episode:

01:54 Who are LifeWorks? 04:06 Is awareness around mental health improving? 05:16 Stigma around mental health 07:16 How the pandemic effected mental health issues 09:42 Mental Health First Aid 10:04 Mental health in the workplace training 11:48 Does Lifeworks only work with large organisations? 12:50 The many benefits a company receives by caring for their employees mental health 14:06 Employee retention 14:30 Confidentiality 15:48 The Mental Health Index 19:42 How different nations approach this topic 20:39 Examples of orgainsations that tackle this well 21:51 Training managers 22:54 Not forcing employees to speak about issues 24:07 How Paula got into this line of work 26:01 How things might change in the near future 28:10 Social media and mental health 29:32 General good habits for reducing mental health issues 31:10 Japanese teenagers not going outside 33:12 Social judgement 35:13 Paula's favourite books 35:46 The Stockdale Paradox 37:16 The importance of purpose 37:43 Details on how to contact Paula and Lifeworks 39:05 Favourite quote 39:57 Next week-episode 95 Dr Joe Mather

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