Great Leaders Look for These Signs of Distress, Know their Employees & Care about Them

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We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.

What you will learn in this episode:

- Why sharing personal experience is a powerful way to create psychological safety
- 3 simple measures that are making a big difference for employees struggling 
- 4 things leaders should be looking for in employees who are in mental duress

Our guest is our friend Ruth Pott, Head of Workplace Wellbeing at B.A.M. She oversees wellbeing for this construction and civil engineering company with 6500 people in the UK and Ireland. B.A.M. has many of its employees working on temporary sites across the country. We are excited to learn how she is helping build resilience in her workforce.

Ruth also tells us why we shouldn't shy away from tough subjects, like suicide, in a tough industry.

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Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.

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Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.

They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.
 
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