Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Michelle O’Sullivan and Douglas Talbot about how managers and team leads can support the mental wellness of their teams through turbulent times Why listen to this podcast: • Good work is one of the best things for our mental health. It gives us a sense of purpose and it provides us with a community • Mental wellness is about how to speak with people, having open conversations, giving people practical support when they need it, and also just creating a safe space and a good culture within your team. Most of it is just about good line management in general. • Checking in in about how people are sleeping can be a safe conversation and can be good indicator of potential deeper issues • So if somebody is quite stressed by the pandemic or what's happening with their loved ones, or someone's sick, these are very real fears, and we don't want to pathologize what is a very normal reaction to an abnormal situation • As a manager it is import