Bedford for Business

Employees are a businesses’ best asset and there has never been a more important time to prioritise workplace health and wellbeing.  Promoting a happy, healthy workforce through a positive culture and supportive environment guarantees improved productivity and staff retention, reduced sickness absence and recruitment costs, not to mention the reputational benefits of being a good employer. Did you know that there is a return of between £2 and £34 for every £1 spent on workplace health interventions?

The Public Health Workplace Health Team are proud to announce the launch of the Healthy Workplace Standards; a free best practice framework to help workplaces support the health and wellbeing of their workforce, across Milton Keynes, Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire.

Register for the Standards now and we will support you to achieve the Standards at your own pace and at a level that’s right for you!

The Healthy Workplace Standards have been developed in collaboration with The Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (Public Health England).  For further information about the Healthy Workplace Standards and details of the offer of support to workplaces within Milton Keynes, Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire, please visit workplace health webpages.

If you would rather speak to a member of the Public Health Workplace Health Team, please email Public.Health@Milton-keynes.gov.uk.

Please share this information with relevant colleagues within your workplace. Thank you.

Growth Curve is a fully-funded, intensive and interactive leadership development workshop for business owners. During the programme, you will explore and develop the essential skills needed to create and implement business plans and achieve personal growth as a business leader.

The eligibility criteria have been recently updated to give more businesses than ever before in the South East Midlands the chance to participate. Previously, to participate a business had to be a small or medium enterprise (SME) operating in the South East Midlands, have between 3 and 250 employees and a minimum annual turnover of £200,000. This has now been changed so that a business can have a minimum of 2 employees, and an annual turnover of £100,000.

After an initial one-to-one diagnostic meeting to look at your business and understand your plans for it, you will have the opportunity to join a university-led masterclass.

These masterclasses will help you come up with strategies to stabilise your business, identify your priorities and objectives, and put yourself in the best possible position to achieve future growth.

Register here at Growth Curve – SEMLEP Growth Hub

MIND BLMK are holding free online training sessions for staff and managers to find out more about ‘Managing difficult conversations with concern for mental health distress or in crisis’.

The training sessions will help you to identify colleagues struggling with their mental health and understand how to encourage them to open up and share their thoughts, feelings and emotions. It will also equip you with the tools to hold difficult conversations with other members of staff and signpost them to local and national mental wellbeing support.

The training will be held monthly and virtually on Microsoft Teams from Sept to Jan 2023.

View the posters for the training sessions and how to book onto a session:

• Training for Staff (90 minutes)
• Training for Managers (30 minutes)

For more information please email:-

Mind BLMK Training

Email: training@mind-blmk.org.uk

Telephone: 0300 330 0648 Ext: 6

Visit our website: www.mind-blmk.org.uk