Sharon will be co-delivering a workshop at the IOSH event with HSE on the 6th March. The workshop will be about managing stress in the workplace and understanding the factors to consider when designing and implementing a policy on stress. The workshop will also look at what managers can do to better manage stress in the workplace.

http://www.ioshconference.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=47/t=m/goSection=6

Sharon and her colleagues at the ‘Centre for Mental Health’ worked jointly with ‘Business in the Community’ to produce a guide to managing presenteeism in the workplace.  You can see it under our ‘Guides’ page.

Sharon was interviewd by ‘The Guardian’ recently regarding an article that they were writing about mental health at work. The article was published last Friday, see it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/01/mental-health-problems-at-work.

This is a summary of a piece of research that was carried out earlier this year looking at the return on investment in mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. wellbeing and ROI

Sharon is speaking at next week’s ‘Inside Government, Health and Wellbeing Forum’ in London. Please see the attached link, if you would like to attend the conference www.insidegovernment.co.uk/health/health-and-wellbeing.

Sharon is now spending some of her time acting as ‘Program Manager’ for a national charity i.e the ‘Centre for Mental Health’. Some of you may recognise it under it’s previous title as the ‘Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health’.  The Centre was established in 1985 and it works with policy and research to help improve the mental health of employees nationally. The Centre for mental health offers training to raise employee’s awareness of common mental health in the workplace. The centre also offers training for Managers to spot the early warning signs of common mental health problems and then intervene to support employees in the workplace. Further information will be added to this site in the near future. In the  interim, please see www.impactondepression.co.uk