Making it ok to ask for help 

Encourage staff to look after their physical and mental health and model this by looking after your own. Remember we all have different ways of doing this, some people may have taken up playing the ukulele during the pandemic; others re-watched Friends from Season 1, Episode 1. Both are OK!

Avoid assumptions that everyone will be adversely affected by working through difficult events as much as assumptions that everyone will be fine. Our resilience depends on a complex interaction between the demand placed on us and the resources we have available to respond.

Let people know that you’re happy to talk and what kind of help is available.