Today on The Work Well Podcast, our host, Brian Crooke interviews Dr. Mark Rowe, a practising GP for over 20 years, whose area of expertise is lifestyle medicine. Dr Rowe advocates lifestyle change as the best medicine for burnout prevention and real vitality by incorporating his principles of self-care with his extensive medical experience, he enables lasting positive change in people and their organisations. His work with organisations started unexpectedly when a patient asked him to talk at their company’s annual wellness day. Since then he has gone on to complete a one-man show called “A prescription for Happiness”, written a book with the same title, and is constantly doing workshops with leadership teams in different organisations.
In this podcast episode, we are looking at the employment and recruitment industry in the current climate. How are recruitment professionals coping in the midst of the global pandemic? What type of businesses are seeing a negative impact from this situation and how are they dealing with the uncertainty of the future?
Donal O'Donoghue, our guest today, is the Managing Director of Sanderson, a recruitment business that focuses on placing people from graduate level up to a senior level in different organizations in marketing, finance, H.R. procurement, IT, and business change. He is also President of the National Recruitment Federation, the representative body for most of the recruitment companies and employment agencies around the country. On this episode he gives us his take on the state of the employment market and on the future of this sector.
Mental health is such an important consideration for a healthy working environment and even more for a balanced personal life. During the COVID-19 crisis, we feel this is an aspect that needs to be addressed again and again by all of us. It’s something that we need to be mindful of for ourselves and for the people around us.
On this episode of the podcast we are talking about mental health with Barbara Brennan, the programme coordinator with See Change Ireland, the national stigma reduction partnership. See Change focuses on changing people’s attitudes, perception and the whole conversation related to mental health. Their work is informed by people with lived experiences of mental health difficulties, who are best placed to give insight into mental health stigma.
The Work Well Podcast focuses on creating and improving healthy workplaces. Why should we be in a role or an environment that doesn't support our health and wellbeing? Even more, in today's context, it is more important than ever to focus on our physical and mental health while working remotely during the isolation period.
The guest of today's episode is Dr. Sarah-Jane Cullinane, assistant professor at the Trinity Business School with ten years of experience teaching and researching in the areas of HR, organisational behaviour, and well being at work.