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With nearly one in two workplace leaders experiencing severe stress week to week, there is an urgent need to build leaders’ sense of self and have them embrace self-care, so they are better placed to identify and support workers who are struggling themselves.

In this episode of The HR Leader Podcast, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with R U OK? founding director and author Graeme Cowan about what his career has taught him about leadership and wellness, the urgent need to improve leaders’ health in the workplace, the prevalence of severe workplace stress, how difficult it is to be a manager right now, what leaders must be asking of themselves moving forward, what it means to care in the workplace, the three arms of care, and how HR teams can better support leaders’ holistic wellbeing.

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