Focus
- 13.1: Assessments
- 13.2: Staff engagement and retention
- 13.3: Health and wellbeing
- 13.4: Nutrition
- 13.5: Stress management and prevention
- 13.6: Resilience training and assessment
- 13.14: Creating a positive work culture
Challenges
- 20.1: Performance management
- 20.2: Negativity, conflict and stress
- 20.3: Sickness absence in the workplace
- 20.4: Staff turnover
- 20.5: Workplace bullying
- 20.6: Mergers and acquisitions
- 20.7: Recruitment and retention
- 20.8: Downsizing and redundancy
Solutions
- 21.4: Expert advice
- 21.5: Cultural change management
- 21.6: Leadership and manager behaviour
- 21.7: Team building
- 21.8: Training and development
- 21.9: Coaching and mentoring
- 21.10: Assessments and surveys
- 21.11: Therapy and motivation
- 21.12: Research and analysis
- 21.13: Executives retreat
- 21.14: Conflict resolution service
- 21.15: The Stress Advisory Service
- 21.16: Code for health and wellbeing
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Joan Baxter
B.Sc. Hons; M.Sc.; PG Dip; C.Psychol.; AFBPsS.
Joan Baxter has been a chartered psychologist for over twenty years. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a full member of the divisions of educational and child psychology and occupational psychology. She is a founder member of the special group in coaching psychology. Joan has a postgraduate qualification in psychoanalytic organisational consultancy and she has a particular interest in the emotional health of organisations.
Joan worked as a psychologist in the public sector for many years including as a senior manager of specialist services. She has also worked in senior roles in the voluntary sector, latterly as vice chair of trustees of a national mental health charity.
As a senior performance specialist with the Audit Commission, Joan has conducted reviews and inspections across a wide range of functions in the public sector, including corporate assessments of local authorities. She has been a regional lead for equalities and diversity and a national lead for policy on children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities. Joan is a trained mediator, a mentor, a very experienced trainer and facilitator and a regular presenter at conferences and seminars. She has been a visiting lecturer at University College London's Psychology Department for the past five years.
Joan is Director of Arreede Ltd., a small consultancy with a focus on improvement through consulting, coaching and training primarily in the public and not for profit sectors.