Global Wellness Digest

Occupational Wellness – The American Counselling Association provided some salient broad-based pointers on occupational wellness:

• Know the signs of stress, burnout and fatigue eg depression, anxiety

• Optimise work/life balance – devote scheduled time to work and self-care activities

• Find a sense of purpose and meaning in your life, connecting with your values, interests, personality and strengths (VIPS)

• Build new skills and competencies – develop psychological flexibility to cope with the relentless changes in life and to be relevant to the new world

• Develop communication skills and assertiveness skills to navigate around workplace politics and to negotiate workload equity

• Optimise your working conditions to suit you while fitting into the broader work environment of your workplace

• Match your personality type to the job description in order to increase job satisfaction and productivity. Use a tool like Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or DISC or BIG 5 – Global Wellness Digest