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What are the benefits to our wellbeing of being in nature? How does nature help our wellbeing? What are some practical steps I can take?

"Culture is a form of protection that has evolved from situational pressures" Michael D. Watkins Photo by Wyron A on Unsplash In 2013 Michael Watkins conducted a survey on LinkedIn to obtain a definition of culture, whilst it is not the most scientific of approaches, there are interesting ideas that have emerged from his survey. Regular readers will be aware that the culture of your organisation will impact many domains such as ethics, profit, employee engagement, customer

Click on the picture for a fun way to reduce workplace loneliness. Click on the picture to watch my 54 second minute Vlog , for a fun way to reduce workplace loneliness. Read my past blog and look at the references for some practical shared activities that are a nice antidote to loneliness. Please drop me an email and share your ideas . References: more are available on request Eat Sleep Work Repeat: Reinventing work 1: why you need to understand the ‘self other overlap’

I fear that as our work continues to be disrupted and we are not seeing our colleagues we are forgetting about social support.

So how can we best reflect on the months that have passed? Should we be looking for a silver lining?

Photo by Blaz Erzetic on Unsplash Readers would be acutely aware of the pressing need for increased innovation at work. However we often don't pause to think about creating the right conditions and making the time to allow for it to occur. Recent experiments found that the initial 20 ideas people generated were the most conventional. Once they had thought of those, they were free to start dreaming up unconventional possibilities. So if you want your team to generate out o