The podcast series that looks at how good communication can build better wellbeing

Welcome to our Better Wellbeing podcast series. The six episodes in this series are designed to help small and medium sized businesses look at employee communication in a way that creates the conditions for a culture of wellbeing – and all the business benefits that come with that.

Hosted by internal Communications expert Suzanne Clarkson, Founder and Managing Director of Coach House Communication; the packed – yet practical – series is aimed at SME business owners, HR professionals and financial advisers who support SMEs.


The series starts with three Communication Clinic episodes, which take a statistics from our 2022 SME Workplace Wellbeing barometer survey as the basis for each episode. You can find our episodes, hosted externally on Podbean, by clicking the links below:

Please note the competition mentioned in our Better Wellbeing Podcast closed on 31/10/2022, if you have any questions please contact LandG.groupprotectioncommunications@landg.com

Episode 1: How storytelling is a social wellbeing superpower

SME Barometer statistic: 93% of businesses (both 10-49 and 50-249) say that providing employees with social wellbeing is one of the most important aspects of health and wellbeing. But only 36% and 42% respectively think they do it very well.

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Episode 2: Leadership communication: the key to new ways of working success

SME Barometer statistic: 30% of businesses with 10-49 employees and 28% with 50-249 plan to redesign their wellbeing strategy to align with new ways of working in the next 12 months.

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Episode 3: Why culture is central to holistic & measurable wellbeing

SME Barometer statistic: 68% of businesses with 50-249 employees struggle to find the right resources (expertise and people) to effectively communicate their health and wellbeing strategy.

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Episode 4: SME Swopshop 1: Sally Pritchett, CEO of Something Big

In this our first ‘swopshop’ episode – where SME business owners talk about all things wellbeing and communication - Suzanne is joined by Sally Pritchett, CEO of Something Big, a creative communications agency based in Surrey.

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Episode 5: SME Swopshop 2: Duncan Martin, Director at Pro-Motion Hire Ltd

In this our second ‘swopshop’ episode – where SME business owners talk about all things wellbeing and communication - Suzanne is joined by Duncan Martin, Director at Pro-Motion Hire, a camera and lighting business covering both the North and South of the country.

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Episode 6: SME Swopshop 3: Geoff McDonald, Co-Founder of Minds@Work

In this our third and final ‘swopshop’ episode in Series One, Suzanne is joined by Geoff McDonald, Co-founder of Minds@Work, a charity committed to helping people navigate the challenges of creating mentally and emotionally healthy and human workplaces where individuals can flourish and organisations prosper.

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In the subsequent three Communication Swopshop episodes,  Suzanne interviews two SME business owners and the Co-Founder of Minds@Work, a charity that’s partnered with Legal & General to provide SMEs with mental health support. Each interview looks at employee communication and wellbeing in action: what’s working; what isn’t; and what could be.

 

 

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HR toolkit

Communication needn’t be complex. At the same time, there isn’t a ‘plug in and play’ solution.

We’ve created a communication toolkit to help you communicate their benefit and wellbeing programme more effectively, enabling you to get the best value and engagement with your employee benefits.

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