I found a gem of a conversation between two outstanding people: Dr. Dieter Veldsman, who hosts the AIHR podcast entitled – The HR Dialogues, and Linda Mthenjane, a Clinical Psychologist (Managing Director of The Space Between Us) who speaks passionately about how we might interpret HR’s role in forming policy and procedure on employee wellbeing. Linda decodes this hard-to-grasp role as being comparable to that of a healthcare paramedic.
Linda, whose consultancy work as a practitioner is focused mainly on clients on the continent (South Africa), goes on to explain to Dieter how mental health skills have quickly become a figurative “currency” through which we must learn to adapt to solve the wellbeing conundrum and to persevere through the context of post-COVID work life.
An important listen.