Aug 16, 2022
Diving into the world of well-being, James shares with us the importance of listening and recognising that as individuals, the way we each deal with our mental health will be different. Having worked at several universities, we explore James’ approach to leadership and why he believes you should say yes to everything, give it a go and have no regrets.
KEY TAKEAWAY
“Sometimes we all get up in the morning, and think I can't be doing with work today, I can't, I'm really stressed. I think it's healthy to have those open discussions with your line manager around how best to structure your work. Sometimes that might mean having a day off here and there and treating wellbeing and mental health a bit more like physical health when we wake up with the flu or a cold. We should be openly discussing wellbeing in a much more positive way. But that's a new skill to learn.”
ABOUT JAMES
James is Head of Residential Life at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), taking the strategic lead for all aspects of community building and wellbeing support. He has worked within residential life for nearly 10 years at various universities across the UK and has created award-winning student experience programmes. Currently James is the UK Ambassador for the International Association of College and University Housing Officers. Additionally, James chairs the UK Residential Life and Student Experience groups as part of College and University Business Officers (CUBO) professional body.
CONNECT WITH JAMES
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgreenwood1/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesResLife
ABOUT THE HOST – MEL LOIZOU
Mel is a Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, Podcast Host & Mum. Specialising in leadership and change management in the Higher Education sector, Mel uses her Fish Climb Trees philosophy to help individuals, teams and organisations, shift from that place of believing they can’t, to one where they know they absolutely can.
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