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  Health Coaching: Innovation and Adoption

  Stories of impact from NHS organisations

  Edwards M, Carter A, Hey L, Arnill Graham K  | Jun 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report explores four case studies of successful health coaching adoption, adaptation and embedding, and explores the impact they report has resulted from health coaching.

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  Reflections and insights from a place-based approach to implementing coaching

  Better Conversations Test and Learn Pilot at Berkeley Vale

  Carter A, Hey L | Jun 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The focus of the ‘test and learn’ training pilot exercise at Berkeley Vale was to generate learning about ‘how’ health coaching is introduced in support of an Integrated Care System (ICS) to integrate working practices and create an ICS culture.

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  Obesity and Work

  Challenging stigma and discrimination

  Bajorek Z, Bevan S | May 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This IES research looks to enhance workplace practice surrounding obesity - a condition that many believe has reached epidemic proportion and is of global concern.

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  Mindfulness in the Military

  Improving mental fitness in the UK Armed Forces using next generation team mindfulness training

  Carter A, Tobias Mortlock J | May 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) commissioned IES and Cranfield University to investigate if, and how, mindfulness could be leveraged for strategic benefits. The team examined and compared different types of mindfulness-based mental fitness training to determine effectiveness in generating improved resilience, cognitive capacity and team work.

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  Employment support for people with epilepsy

  Qualitative research to identify what good employment support for people with epilepsy should look like

  Francis R, Byford M, Wilson S | May 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Epilepsy Action commissioned IES to conduct research exploring the factors that contribute to people with epilepsy being disadvantaged at work, and to identify what good employment support should look like.

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  Slides: Capitalising on neurodiverse talent

  Optimising the talents of diverse thinkers

  Hey Z, Iceton L, Callen A, Gray H, Goldman A | Feb 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies, River & Mercantile Group, Auticon

  Ian Iceton, Amanda Callen, Helen Gray, Adam Goldman and Liz Hey's slides from IES HR workshop 'Capitalising on neurodiverse talent', 7 February 2019.

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  Planning and preparing for later life: A social survey feasibility study

  Collins D, Toomse-Smith M, Comanaru R, Fenton C, Gloster R, Silcock D, Dodd T | Feb 2019 | Department for Work and Pensions

  What are the most appropriate and cost-effective means to get policy-relevant evidence on people’s behaviours and attitudes towards planning and preparation for later in life?

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  Designing and testing a return on investment tool for EAPs

  Final report

  Bevan S, Bajorek Z | Jan 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  How we designed and tested a tool to assess whether investing in Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) can deliver a return on investment by reducing sickness absence and preventing mental health problems in the workplace.

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  2019: a totally rewarding year?

  IES Perspectives on HR 2019

  Brown D | Jan 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

  What can employers and policymakers do to make total rewards a reality for UK employees? In this paper, IES head of HR consultancy, Duncan Brown, analyses trends in total rewards, UK workplaces and the wider economy to consider the state of play on total rewards in UK organisations.

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  Evaluation of Mind's mental health and resilience training for new recruits to the Blue Light sector

  Huxley C, Wilson S, Gay R, Hey L | Oct 2018 | Mind

  This report contains the findings from our evaluation of Mind's training interventions for new recruits in the Blue Light services in England and Wales.