Blog. New Step-By-Step Guide to Wellbeing launches

Looking after your employee’s mental health is vital in any industry – and hospitality is no different. That’s why today we’re proud to launch our brand-new Step-by-Step guide to wellbeing – a free downloadable resource to empower hospitality teams to better support their employees’ mental health.

Created in partnership with Emma Keeble, mental health expert and Founder of Anchor People, and to support our current Walk for Wellbeing campaign, the guide offers a six-step strategy to help promote wellbeing in the workplace, including how to foster an open and supportive culture and how to cultivate a positive work environment.

Working in hospitality is incredibly fun and rewarding – but it is also often accompanied with long irregular hours within high-pressure environments.  Combine that with the many issues the industry as a whole continues to face, it’s perhaps little surprise that 64% of those in the hospitality industry have experienced increasingly poor mental health at work over the past 12 months when compared to the previous year. 

It is therefore our hope that the Step-by-Step guide provides a stepping stone for employers to better support their teams during difficult times.

Speaking on the launch of the Step-by-Step guide, Emma Keeble said:

“We are definitely getting better as an industry at putting our people’s wellbeing front and centre, but long, irregular hours, physically demanding shifts and ever-increasing customer demands continue to make hospitality a highly pressured environment. This guide gives managers tangible resources to make a big difference to their teams’ mental health and wellbeing – which ultimately benefit teams and businesses alike.”

The Step-by-Step guide is one of our many initiatives to promote this year’s Walk for Wellbeing, a fun flexible event that encourages the hospitality community to come together and take simple steps towards raising vital funds to support individuals and their families in the sector who are facing challenging times.

Speaking about the launch of the Step-by-Step guide, Craig Prentice, Creator of Walk for Wellbeing and founder of hospitality recruitment and talent partner, mum, said:

“I know from personal experience how important it is to have an understanding, empathetic work environment. Even the smallest steps can make a big difference and we’d encourage all hospitality businesses to not only download this vital resource, but also to sign up for this year’s Walk for Wellbeing and show their support for an important industry wide issue.”

You can download your copy of the Step-by-Step guide here.

For more information about Walk for Wellbeing and how to get involved, click here.