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Final agenda (minutes of the meeting are available on request - please contact mbc@byrnedean.com)
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DownloadFinal agenda (minutes of the meeting are available on request - please contact mbc@byrnedean.com)
DownloadAn article from a project team who work with law firms a lot with their thoughts on managing projects mindfully
DownloadA discussion event was held in September 2020 (as the UK's first lockdown restrictions began to be lifted) to explore collective thinking around and the application of MBC to the next phase of people working both in the office and remotely. This note summarises the output from breakout group discussions.
DownloadA tool to help organisations think about actions to take at different stages of involvement with MBC
Download• Mindful Connections consisted of 12 episodes which were emailed on a weekly basis to all of Barclays Legal globally (c.750 employees). • The Mindful Ninja was created as a mascot for the series, a character who shares small but meaningful actions that all of us can take to help improve wellbeing and mental health for everyone • This was followed up by 10 episodes of Mindful Reflections where we caught up with Legal colleagues (diversity across geography, role, corporate title, gender, ethnicity, etc) to understand their favourite episode of Mindful Connections, what they were consciously doing differently now and suggestions for further improvements of Legal’s supportive culture.
Download• Mindful Connections consisted of 12 episodes which were emailed on a weekly basis to all of Barclays Legal globally (c.750 employees). • The Mindful Ninja was created as a mascot for the series, a character who shares small but meaningful actions that all of us can take to help improve wellbeing and mental health for everyone • This was followed up by 10 episodes of Mindful Reflections where we caught up with Legal colleagues (diversity across geography, role, corporate title, gender, ethnicity, etc) to understand their favourite episode of Mindful Connections, what they were consciously doing differently now and suggestions for further improvements of Legal’s supportive culture.
Download• Mindful Connections consisted of 12 episodes which were emailed on a weekly basis to all of Barclays Legal globally (c.750 employees). • The Mindful Ninja was created as a mascot for the series, a character who shares small but meaningful actions that all of us can take to help improve wellbeing and mental health for everyone • This was followed up by 10 episodes of Mindful Reflections where we caught up with Legal colleagues (diversity across geography, role, corporate title, gender, ethnicity, etc) to understand their favourite episode of Mindful Connections, what they were consciously doing differently now and suggestions for further improvements of Legal’s supportive culture.
DownloadHow the Mindful Business Charter can serve as a blueprint for a more mentally healthy workplace. With panellists from RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and Burness Paull. Zoom registration link below.
Find out moreAn evening to reflect and welcome new signatories 13 May 2021 from 5.30 to 6.45 pm Via Zoom We are pleased to invite you to our Mindful Business Charter event on 13 May 2021, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. We will welcome a host of new signatories, have an update on broader developments with the MBC and hear from two speakers: DR EMMA JONES is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield with a particular interest in emotions and wellbeing within the profession. Emma is part of the International Bar Association’s global task force on mental health and wellbeing (of which Richard Martin is also part) and she will summarise both the findings of the recent global survey conducted by the IBA as well as the commentary on those findings from a team of academics that she led. She will particularly focus on those aspects that relate to the culture and environment in which we operate and which, of course, is what the MBC is all about. Although legal profession focussed, the insight is global and, like the Charter, of far broader sector relevance. DR MARK BERELOWITZ is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Along with his Thai colleague Dr Tee, Mark studied the Thai boys football team who were trapped in a cave in the summer of 2018, and identified key themes to their resilience and survival. More recently Mark has been involved in supporting frontline clinical NHS staff during the COVID pandemic, and is helping the hospital plan for the post pandemic recovery. Mark will draw on these and other learnings to offer insight into organisational resilience and what our organisations can be doing to enable each of us to make a difference, for ourselves and for each other. There will be time for Q & A and the event will close around 6.45pm. Please register using the link below to let us know that you will be attending.
Find out moreWe are taking part in a panel event to promote the Charter to a US audience. It is part of a week of focus on activity organisations can adopt to follow on from the annual week of focus on individual actions to promote lawyer wellbeing. It is a great opportunity to introduce and promote the Charter to a US audience. If you have US colleagues or offices, or US clients or contacts, please take a moment to think about whether you want to send them the link and encourage them to join the event. The registration link is below.
Find out moreOur bi-monthly call to share updates. 20 May 11am-12pm
Find out moreOur bi-monthly call to share updates. 15 July 2-3pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82418499455?pwd=QVUrYXZzSmI2Qm56QmxBeStPbTY0UT09 Meeting ID: 824 1849 9455 Passcode: 430861
Find out moreYou can’t really think about MBC without thinking about digital technology and how we interact with it. It is a great enabler but at the same time digital tools are reported by employees to be one of their greatest sources of workplace stress and disruptors to work life balance - when asked 83% say their digital causes them stress and overwhelm and 90% say distractions from technology impairs their performance at work. Shine Offline (please see www.shineoffline.com for more information about them and their work) have been working with organisations for many years to help them think about digital wellbeing and our relationship with our technology. Over the last couple of years they have been working with some MBC signatories to expressly build this thinking into the organisations’ MBC strategy. We wanted to share that thinking more broadly with the signatory group. We have invited Shine Offline Co-founder and digital wellbeing and management expert Laura Willis to run an exclusive MBC focussed 90 minute webinar to help us to explore our current digital habits and the impact they are having on ourselves and colleagues. Effective email management, meaningful meetings, good use of workplace digital technologies to maximise collaboration and minimise overload, and successful out of hours work tech management will all be addressed. Laura will share insights from the worlds of neuroscience and psychology as well as learnings from a host of businesses Shine Offline have worked with over the past 5 years.
Find out moreOur bi-monthly signatories call to share updates. 20 September 11am-12pm
Find out moreOur bi-monthly call to share updates. 10 November 2-3pm
Find out moreOur bi-monthly signatories call. Thank you to Laura Tokell (Womble Bond Dickinson) and Rachel Holder (Lloyds Banking Group) for their updates
Find out moreOur bi-monthly signatories call. Thank you to Lizzy Stewart (4 New Square), Lynda Clark (Morton Fraser) and Moira Slape (Travers Smith) for their updates.
Find out moreAn event hosted by the Law Society of Scotland with knowledge sharing and practical tips from Charter organisations. • Introduction - Olivia Moore – Law Society of Scotland • An introduction to the Mindful Business Charter – Richard Martin • Embedding MBC in a transactional team – Simon Rajgopaul - Lloyds Banking Group • A client relationship perspective - Ilona McGowan – RBS • Business incentives, getting partners involved and using MBC as an HR tool - Emma Smith and Alasdair Sutherland - Burness Paull
Find out moreOur Mindful Business Charter event on 13 May 2021 marked Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. We welcomed 15 new signatories and heard from two speakers: Dr Emma Jones - senior lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield and part of the International Bar Association’s global task force on mental health and wellbeing. Dr Mark Berelowitz - Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Along with his Thai colleague Dr Tee, Mark studied the Thai boys football team who were trapped in a cave in the summer of 2018, and identified key themes to their resilience and survival. More recently Mark has been involved in supporting frontline clinical NHS staff during the COVID pandemic, and is helping the hospital plan for the post pandemic recovery.
Find out moreDuring the session Richard Martin encouraged participants to be more aware of when they are feeling stressed and of what that is doing to them, gave insight and guidance as to how we can each individually better manage stress and stressful situations and reminded us of what MBC tells us about how we can help each other.
Find out moreInsight from Kate Dodd and Matt Morgan of Pinsent Masons
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