For the first monthly book review, council member Jupiter Humphrey-Bishop AIH chose author Debbie Mitchells’s book: Top 50 Tools for Employee Wellbeing: A Complete Toolkit for Developing Happy, Healthy, Productive and Engaged Employees, and considers what tips we can all use around self-care in our personal and working lives.
Top 50 tools for Employee Wellbeing by Debbie Mitchell | Review by Jupiter Humphrey-Bishop AIH
“Understand how to improve your business’s productivity, create positive working environments and improve staff wellbeing while working towards reaching new goals as a team. This book’s dynamic tools will bring you motivational positive change.”
Our employee’s wellbeing is a top priority, and we need to become proactive in bringing self-care into our working environments.
This book outlines how using just 50 tools, employee wellbeing can be achieved so I was intrigued to understand how to access the tools and how they could help improve working methods and improve the well-being of our teams.
The book provided a good overview of why wellbeing and the depth of how looking after staff’s health is crucial and so closely linked to a business’s success rates. This book takes you on an exciting journey, covering a wide range of points, helping you to think more clearly and bring fresh ideas into the workplace towards ‘wellbeing’.
This book is an energising step towards having a better understanding of your staff, understanding their potential and teaches us that as a role model you should lead forward with wellbeing at the centre of your business. A topic that we should be proud to embrace. The book provides a spotlight for developing a self-improvement mindset, helping us to develop a keen passion for growth, working together and increasing motivation levels. Although we should still take a moment to be grateful and appreciate the work we have already achieved, understanding the benefits of positive praise, recognising contribution and celebrating the team’s success along the way.
The book covers the overall picture of balanced wellbeing. How improving employees working spaces, providing fresh healthy food, a staff space away from the working area and adding health benefiting improvements will increase your staff’s productivity and help maximise staff retention.
As you read further, you’ll delve deeper into the complex topic of emotional intelligence and management techniques, bringing you authenticity and awareness of better wellbeing.
Typically, people spend around a third of their lives at work, so understanding how bringing people together to work towards shared visions can be beneficial.
With the author’s level-headed approach to these subjects, it helps you, as the reader to look at wellbeing from a different angle. How educating ourselves on this self-care can teach us how to be better managers, how you can make people feel valued and noticed and how to ‘be there every step of the way’ for our employees, improving working relationships.
The steps, tools and plans in this book can easily be tailored to fit your workplace and aligned with your business’s vision.
Part of the book talks about a ‘Growth Mindset’, which teaches you to listen to and understand your personal communication methods and how to challenge yourself to become more growth-focused.
The author talks about how “the balance between achievability and challenge is critical” to the flow of work and ideas in the workplace. And when inspirational coaches and people managers “demonstrate a real belief in the potential of others” it helps them develop through opportunity and challenge.
Its motivational discussions on resilience and the power of ‘YET’ shows us how a slight change is so powerful and can immediately turn a limiting situation into a statement full of opportunity. Changing mindsets to a more open-minded positive state.
The author also describes when managers help develop resilience with ‘resilience training’ in employees, it can minimize the impacts of organisational stress on employee’s mental health.
In the chapter the ‘Power of Reflecting’, it explains how you have the power to change, continuing to enhance your performance and how you can’t change the feedback you receive, or how it is delivered, but you can choose how you respond, giving yourself the opportunity for self-improvement.
Overall, I thought the book was well written, and has given me an insight into new ideas, embracing fresh new working ways. Self-development in the team will take us nearer to new possibilities, a clearer focus and one step closer to achieving our team’s goals, whilst finding our passion towards better health along the way.
4 stars =Very good – put it on your reading list. This review and rating is the opinion of the reviewer.
Suitability: This is book is suitable for managers at all levels
This book fits into the Self Care Pillar under the IoH’s Five Pillars off Learning, a new approach to CPD professional learning and development based on the five core areas of hospitality management.
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