Posts by Raelynn Douglas
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness: Small Moments, Big Impact Introduction Kindness isn’t just a feel-good sentiment—it can be a powerful tool to improve well-being, enhance workplace culture, and support employee retention. This Random Acts of Kindness Week, let’s explore how small but intentional gestures can create a positive ripple effect that improves mental health, strengthens teams,…
Read MoreThe Art of Caring: Building Resilience in Home Healthcare
Home healthcare providers play an essential role in delivering compassionate care to individuals who need support in their own homes. However, with this responsibility comes a unique set of challenges that can take a toll on both physical and emotional well-being. Whether it’s balancing long hours with personal time or managing the emotional weight of…
Read MoreCreating a Resilient Workforce
Creating a Resilient Workforce In today’s dynamic and often challenging healthcare environment, fostering a resilient workforce is more critical than ever. A resilient workforce is one that can adapt to change, bounce back from setbacks, and continue to deliver high-quality care in the face of adversity. Building resilience within your team not only improves individual…
Read MoreBuilding Personal Resilience
Personal resilience is the ability to adapt and bounce back when faced with challenges, adversity, or stress. It’s not about avoiding difficulties but rather developing the capacity to face and overcome them. Building a stronger capacity for resilience helps to maintain mental and emotional well-being, especially in today’s fast-paced and often stressful and unpredictable world.…
Read MoreTurn-over – a $Trillion Preventable Problem
How is the Great Resignation affecting you? Is your organization losing its workforce because of burn-out, stress, a lack of purpose or a toxic culture? Do you know why people are leaving? Have you asked your staff if they are happy or looking for something more? Have you asked them why they stay; what matters…
Read MoreThe Great Resignation or the Great Awakening?
The global pandemic continues to rage – thrusting experiences at us that rattle our brains and make us sit up and take notice. I won’t attempt to summarize the collective COVID experience here – we all know what it is, the destruction it’s causing, and what our own unique circumstances are. What I’m pondering is… the…
Read MoreTackling Burn-out
Way back in May of 2019, long before COVID-19 hit us, the World Health Organization identified burn-out as an occupational phenomenon resulting from “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”. The WHO says burn-out is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion increased mental distance from one’s job, feeling negativity…
Read MoreDealing with Setbacks
It happens to all of us. We are going about our lives thinking things are just fine… and then out of the blue – it happens! We lose a job, or someone we love becomes ill, or injured, or we get some bad news. It is inevitable. Life is a journey filled with hills and…
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