Benefits to Support Our Women Employees and Families
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Manager Tips: Model the Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
Empower your team members to create and maintain healthy habits simply by practicing healthy habits yourself. What type of habits are you modeling for your team? Here are some habits to pursue to become a more effective leader: Identify and change unhealthy habits you may be modeling in front of your team, such as joining meetings late, working long hours or drinking sugary drinks in meetings. During team and one-on-one meetings, share WellBeingAtAECOM.com and AECOM University resources that can help your team create healthy habits. Consider recommending resources as part
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Safeguard Your Physical and Mental Health
Workplace safety is not simply about reducing hazardous work conditions and minimizing safety errors. It’s also about practicing healthy behaviors that make all employees feel safe and secure to perform their jobs to the best of their abilities. We all can take steps to create an environment where all employees thrive by practicing healthy habits that promote physical and psychological safety. Here are ways you can improve physical safety: Sleep is critical to your overall well-being and can have significant impact on your work productivity, mental health and safety performance.
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Manager Tips: Create a Safe Space to Work
Providing a safe space where employees feel comfortable being and expressing their most authentic selves is integral to the well-being of our employees and organization. Teams in which employees feel safe both physically and psychologically benefit from higher levels of trust, resilience, creativity and engagement. Here are five ways to create both physical and psychological safety on your team: Review this manager presentation and these FAQs to get familiar with the global resources available to support your employees’ mental health and discover resources to support your own mental health. Review
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Break Unhealthy Habits with Intention
Forming habits is our brain’s way of helping us complete routine activities with less effort and energy. This is great for tasks like brushing our teeth, but some habits are not so great for us —like smoking, overspending, unhealthy eating and alcohol consumption. The more we repeat certain behaviors, the more automatic and “rewarding” they become to our brains. The good news is we can change our habits with proven methods and a little time. While some new habits can even be formed in as little as 18 days, it
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Ways to Increase Your Daily Steps
We’ve all heard that we should walk 10,000 steps per day. While some may welcome this challenge, others may feel like it’s an impossible task. Across more than 110 countries, on average, people take fewer than 5,000 steps per day. However, there is a significant country-level — and even city-level — variation in average steps per day, with people in countries such as Hong Kong, China, the U.K., France and Germany taking an average of more than 5,000 steps per day, and people in France, Australia, Canada, the U.S., India
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Ways to Move Your Body
Run, walk, dance, row, play tag or ski. There are so many ways to be active and move your body each day. By moving your body, you can increase your longevity and quality of life by preventing illness, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes, reducing anxiety, stress and depression, enhancing learning and creative thinking and improving your quality of sleep. Nearly everyone knows that physical activity is critical to our overall well-being. Unfortunately, many of us have a hard time fitting it into our busy schedules. In fact, studies
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The Hidden Costs of Caregiving
As the elderly population grows, many of us are put in the position to provide emotional and financial support for our children and parents at the same time. The situation is common around the world. It’s estimated that over 2.5 million people are unpaid caregivers in Australia. In Great Britain, approximately 2.4 million people are combining childcare with caring for older or disabled relatives. In the U.S., 6.5 million American adults are raising a child and caring for a parent. The numbers and percentages are similar in Asia—in fact, in
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Ways to Connect Through Conversation
Whether you’re working to strengthen a connection with a colleague, friend or family member, a few topics to keep the conversation going can help. Here are some ideas to help you get to know your connections better. Questions to Ask What are you looking forward to this week? Is there anything I can help you with today? If you could live anywhere else in the world, where would it be and why? If you could trade places with someone for a day, who would it be? If you could time
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Ways to Cultivate Your Creativity
Many believe creativity is something you’re born with — either you have it or you don’t. However, like many other skills, it can be developed and strengthened over time with practice, the right setting and a little focus. Unleashing your creativity is fun, and it’s good for your brain too. Research suggests that engaging in activities that cultivate creativity can radically alter and improve the brain by boosting serotonin levels, improving memory, focus and mental alertness and decreasing the chances of dementia. Engaging in these activities can even increase life
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