If you’re a primary school head, working in Leicestershire or Rutland and if you have an interested in exploring the emotional process of transition between primary and secondary education, the Embrace team would love to hear from you.
Year 6 leaver shirt – I will miss you
We’re in the process of creating brand new e-learning resources designed to build personal resilience and develop coping skills in young people at school and at home.
The goal is to prepare kids for this famously tricky journey of separation and independence, encourage them to adopt a positive outlook and stay in great emotional shape through the trials and tribulations of the year seven experience.
This is an exciting opportunity to form an ongoing partnership with a group of creative professionals and see your ideas and experience brought to life in our really useful e-learning modules.
For more information, call or email Tricia.foster@embrace-learning.co.uk /0161 928 9987
What is Debt?
Technically speaking, debt is any amount of money owed to another person or organisation.
Realistically, debt is money spent but not yet earned.
Practically, we think of debt as being unable to repay bills or borrowed money.
Research carried out in the UK found that more than 15% of us regularly miss bill repayments or feel overwhelmed by debts because even our best-laid plans occasionally go awry.
Here are the 5 most common characteristics of personal debt and their effect on resilience and well-being.
1. Debt is so often so Mundane
There’s a common misconception that money management issues are karma, the reasonable result of extravagant life style choices. Sadly, the truth is much grittier.
A lost job, relationship breakdown, an illness or anything that affects our ability to maintain consistent income can create debt problems within a matter of weeks and it can happen to anyone.
Judgement, therefore, just isn’t helpful.
Helpful is an open mind and a willingness to create a recovery plan.
Go to https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en for more advice on how to move forward when things are going wrong.
2. Debt is Super Stressful.
About 50% of people with diagnosed mental health issues live in debt but who can say how many became ill because of debt or vice versa?
What we do know is that stress related to debt makes money management even more challenging. Short term fixes often have long term consequences and filling the fridge with a payday loan is a great way to perpetuate the debt, stress cycle.
The ability to recognise the most common signs and symptoms of mental illness in yourself and others can help prevent debt and depression becoming partners for life.
Step Change is a charity who offer support with debt stress, find them here … https://www.stepchange.org/debt-info/debt-stress-and-mental-health.aspx
3. Debt is Incredibly Isolating.
Despite the overwhelming worry, people find it really hard to talk about debt to family and friends.
Honestly, family and friends often find it hard to talk about debt too.
A great support network can help reduce stress, maintain self-esteem and enable a rapid return to health, well-being and financial equilibrium.
If you’re worried about someone close to you, ask how you can help, make no judgement calls and keep it confidential.
http://• Ways to spot a friend in debt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40340737
4. Debt is Seriously Exhausting.
Night time worry is notorious for being the most profound and least productive worry pattern of all.
Losing sleep to worry will always have a negative effect on well-being and emotional resilience.
To protect your job, your relationships and your health, it’s important to get help with sleep loss as early as possible.
Make one appointment with your GP, and another with a debt counsellor, then have a long talk with your nearest and dearest.
http://www.frugalitymagazine.com/losing-sleep-over-debt-here-are-4-simple-solutions-89252/
5. Recovering from Debt is Exceptionally Empowering
Getting mad at debt and kicking it out is actively good for your personal resilience.
People who never worry about money often never think about it and that’s a risky strategy.
Once you’ve sorted your bills, negotiated with creditors and made a few basic changes you’ll feel stronger and more competent than ever.
For more advice on Resilience and Wellbeing go to https://embraceresilience.com/embrace-resilience-wellbeing/
The only thing worse than training your staff and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.
Organisations that want to work well, train well.
Here are 6 great reasons to commission our carefully crafted, bespoke learning for your team this year.
1. You get fabulously flexible training that uses your language, your goals and your reality.
Nothing embeds learning faster than familiar accents, images and language.
Bring the team on board and get a great ROI with brilliant e learning which delivers your message to your team, anytime, any place, anywhere you like.
You’ll create an asset that can be used repeatedly, across your entire organisation.
Snatch screens to make supporting work books and presentations.
Slip relevant sections into other learning materials.
Flip it onto social media and let it be known that you’ve generated an organisation specific piece of complete genius.
2. Because you already know that forcing a square thing into a round hole hardly ever works.
Pitch your training sessions at exactly the right level for your learners. Your training should reflect your organisation, not ours.
Use your images, your voices and your mission to build training that makes the most of every training minute.
3. Your confidence won’t go unnoticed.
Making them part of your training experience says plenty about your commitment your most valued customers, staff and supply chain partners. Tell them how much you appreciate their support by using real life case studies to show your best practice requirement meeting their needs.
4. Engage and retain your Team
Generate valuable buy in by using recognisable faces, images and commentary. Training investment creates a sense of belonging in teams, making your employees much less likely to leave before you want them to.
5. Hold the Focus.
Your bespoke e-learning modules will contain only what you want them to – no conflicting advice, no time wasted and no compromise required.
6. Bespoke e-learning will almost certainly improve your Training ROI
If you’ve never considered bespoke e-learning before you’ll probably be surprised at how cost effective it is.
Saving travel time, room hire, tutor costs and expenses is a serious advantage, but the ability to repeat the session whenever and where ever you choose outweighs all other savings.
One beautifully designed module with unlimited delivery potential, tailor made learning outcomes and the capacity to support your employees for years to come could generate income and reduce overheads from day one.
Get more information about bespoke e-learning fromhttps://embraceresilience.com/bespoke-course-development/
