The best tools and ideas for workplace wellbeing, packed into 90 minutes
Delivered at your offices at a time that suits you
Why go espresso?
- Short talks that don’t disrupt the workings day;
- Delivered at a time and place that suits your staff;
- Highly focused content concentrates on the ideas, tools and techniques that are most useful to your audience;
- Expert speakers specialising in workplace wellbeing;
- Content flexed to suit your needs;
- Can be delivered as a one-off talk or built into a series linked by a common theme.
- Learning supported by online resources to access after the talk.
We’ve distilled our years of experience and research on workplace wellbeing into a set of punchy, 90 minute talks. Each focuses in on a specific topic or issue we look at on our longer courses, and can stand alone or be delivered with other sessions to build into a comprehensive wellbeing series.
These concise ‘espresso’ talks provide access to the best and most effective ideas, tools and techniques in workplace wellbeing with the minimum of disruption to the working day. They can be adapted to suit the needs of difference audiences, and can be delivered at any time to fit around your working patterns.
Delegates will also get access to our online resource pages, helping them build on their learning and explore the topic further after the talk.
Workplace wellbeing espresso menu
Practical Resilience Tools
This course equips you with a set of essential tools and techniques to build and maintain your emotional and physical resilience.
During the session you will learn about:
- What resilience is – and isn’t
- Building physical resilience – a brief overview of hydration, sleep, types of food, exercise, the value of breaks
- Resilience is not just about how you endure it’s about how you recharge – identifying the ways we recharge effectively during the working day, day by day and week by week
- Building your emotional resilience
- Managing your emotional response under pressure
- Action planning
Building a Resilient Team
A resilient team copes with uncertainty, overcomes setbacks and is positively focussed on moving forward. This session helps managers develop resilience in their teams.
The session includes:
- Building engagement across your team and different ways to achieve this
- The role of emotional intelligence in building team resilience
- Dealing with knock-backs and uncertainties in the team
- Developing a positive team attitude and gaining perspective
- Coping with change – identifying what different members of staff need at different stages of change
- Action planning
Putting the Body Back into Business
We are not heads on sticks but often behave as if we are; working long hours sitting at our desk, failure to take breaks and sacrificing sleep. If we don’t look after our bodies we will not be able to look after business effectively.
This session will include activities and discussion on:
- We are not heads on sticks – we must take care of our self physically
- The four pillars of physical energy – nutrition, hydration, movement and recovery
- Stress is not the bad guy – balancing energy out with energy in
- Healthy habits to build mental toughness and positivity
- Action planning
Insights from Postive Psychology
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what humans need to be happy and to thrive. Its insights can help us improve our wellbeing and mental health, overcome adversity and be the best version of yourself. A key finding from Positive Psychology is that emotions and behaviours spread – positive and negative. So by applying an understanding of Positive Psychology to improve our own wellbeing, we play our part in creating a positive working environment for the organisation as a whole.
This session includes:
- An introduction to Positive Psychology – history and key concepts
- The PERMA – PP model (Martin Seligman)
- Positive Emotions – moving out of ‘victim’ mindset into one of positive influence / ratio of 3:1 positive to negative / choosing a positive attitude / think, feel, do model – Video clip / activity
- Engagement – celebrating success / looking for what is good / brain’s negative bias - activity
- Relationships – being kind / behaviour spreads – Candid camera clip - activity
- Meaning – Gratitudes activity
- Accomplishment - goal setting activity
- Commitments forward – action planning and next steps
Resilience – A Bounce Back Toolkit
As change in the workplace has become the norm, we are constantly facing new and bigger challenges. When things don’t always go as planned, our ability to bounce back is put to the test. To thrive in this climate, it’s essential to learn from our setbacks and move forward, rather than wallowing or dwelling on them.
This 90 minute session will include discussion and practical activities on the following:
- What is resilience?
- The six keys to resilience
- How we sometimes get in our own way (and how not to!)
- Self-care tips and techniques
Starting the Conversation about Mental Health at Work
Mental health issues affect around one in six workers at any given time, yet few ask their employers for help. The result can be bad for the individual concerned, as well as for the organisation. This session helps build delegates understanding of mental health and introduces an approach for talking more openly and supportively about this important issue.
During the session you will learn about:
- Why is it important to talk about mental health at work?
- A story of depression based on lived experience and why this is relevant.
- The language of mental health - let’s talk about energy and talk about it more often.
- What is mental health stigma?
- The business case for wellbeing – this is not a fluffy subject.
- The good news with case studies.
- Where does mental health fit into the business agenda?
- How can we support our people?
- Four tips to normalise mental like physical health.
Client feedback
The below feedback comes from a variety of our wellbeing courses.
“Filled me with positive energy and feeling very motivated at a much needed time.”
Delegate, John Lewis Partnership
“Excellent facilitator who really knows her stuff.”
Head of HR, Arts Council England
“Fab… looking forward to putting my learning into practice.”
Delegate, Mitchells and Butlers PLC
“Great session… feeling much more confident about how I can control my own levels of resilience.”
Delegate, Boehringer Ingleheim
“Fantastic learning… interactive, interesting and fun.”
Delegate, CMR Group
Find out more and get a quote
If you have any questions about our espresso wellbeing sessions or if you would like a quote please get in touch with an idea of what you are looking for and where and when you would like it delivered and we will respond on the same day.
If you would like to have a more detailed discussion with one our experts about how they could be made to work for you please also get in touch and we will arrange a convenient time for a call.
Cambridge Executive Development is a boutique learning consultancy with a small and select team. Over fifteen years we’ve helped delegates from hundreds of companies, including many of the country’s biggest brands, boost their productivity and confidence, and transform their impact at work.
