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Welcome to Kate Cook's workplace wellbeing blog. Explore practical insights on workplace wellbeing, nutrition, resilience and employee health from a nutrition expert and corporate speaker with 25+ years experience.
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Fit for leadership. Are you fit to lead?
When the business case for wellbeing in companies is emerging as significant and the evidence of having a healthy workforce is growing, why does there seem to be a gulf between talking about the benefits of having wellness programmes at work and actually engaging in […]
International Women’s Day
Although in many countries the political roots of Women’s Day might have lost its significance (early pioneers in women’s rights) and in many countries the message is around love for women, a merging of Mothering Sunday and Valentines’ Day – International Women’s Day (8th March) is a chance […]
Have a Heart
February is traditionally the month of the heart – St Valentine has a lot to answer for! We’ve just got the Christmas bulge under control and then we are encouraged to dive into the chocolates! I like February because in February there is hope for […]
Dry January – How are you doing?
It’s really not a bad time to give your liver and system a rest after the excesses of the Christmas season, so many of us will try and knock off the booze and have a dry January. It’s also traditional for many of us to […]
Corporate Wellness Better Work Performance
Detox Your Diet for Maximum Performance at Work. Switched on employers are starting to realise that one vital key to a flourishing business is the health of their employees. In Corporate Wellness Better Work Performance the overall aim of the programme is to promote a […]
Top Tips For A Happy Healthy Christmas
At this time of year, despite our intentions not to go crazy and let go of our health foundations, Christmas is a time of excess which we often pay for as we return to our desks in January sluggish and having let out a belt […]
Wellness Strategy Not Benefit
Is Wellness at work the latest business-trend bandwagon? Many companies want to jump on but is this out of genuine concern and thought out strategy or a look-good strategy to all the right tick boxes, and without joined up thinking? Over the last 10 years […]
Last Summer Song and Avoiding the Holiday Blues
It might be difficult to believe that the last balmy days of summer are behind us and the prospect is to descend into the gloom of the long winter nights. It’s really hard to motivate ourselves when we have been used to the lazier pace […]
The Family that Eat Together Stay Together – Work/Life Balance is Eating as a Family
Food surrounds us – we all need to eat and it is something that we all share in terms of need. But Food is more than just a need to eat. Food is the glue that holds us together as a community in the wider […]
Keeping Sane in a Mad World
Many of you will know that this week (15 June) has been “Men’s’ Health Week” where men’s’ health is highlighted. A few topics come up that might be of more concern to men e.g. Heart Disease (by no means a problem just for men), prostate […]
5 Key Tips For Optimum Mental Performance
“One of the greatest shortcomings of human logic is the unquestioned belief that psychological problems, be it of behaviour or intelligence, are influenced only by psychological factors and that physiological factors are only influenced by physiological factors. This presupposes that the mind and body are separate, […]
