Your EAP Can’t Help Someone Who Won’t Ask for Help
Your EAP is built for the moment someone asks for help. Most employees carrying an aging parent, grief, a family member who drinks, money worries or a struggling teenager never get there. Chris Coulter explains why people stay quiet, what managers say that shuts them down, and how First Conversation Coaching and LifeLine Parent Workshops reach people earlier.
When One Person Struggles, Five Others Feel It
When a teenager struggles, the whole circle around them struggles too: parents performing normal at work, siblings who shrink their needs, grandparents who worry twice, and managers guessing at a drop in output. Chris Coulter of The MentorWell counts who's affected, what it costs families and employers, and why earlier awareness shrinks the load everyone carries.
7 Things I Got Wrong About Mental Health as a Business Owner
Chris Coulter co-owned a 70-person office furniture company from 1992 to 2010. Here are seven things he got wrong about mental health at work: calling it an excuse, doubting parents with sick kids, banning remote work, saying "let us know how we can help," ignoring the EAP, pushing through his own depression, and keeping it hidden. What to say when an employee shares a personal struggle.
HR Can Build the Programme. HR Can't Make It Safe.
A mental health programme only works if people believe it's safe to use. Chris Coulter, founder of The MentorWell, shows how psychological safety at work gets set at the top: by a CEO who says something true about their own life, or who responds well when a leader discloses a struggle. Includes a real CEO story for leaders and HR teams, and what it costs when good people leave without saying why.
What Happened Last Night Is Sitting in Your 9 A.M. Meeting
Somebody on your team sat outside their kid's bedroom last night and was on your 9 a.m. call anyway. Gallup now finds more US workers struggling in their lives than thriving. Most will never tell their manager, because they don't believe it's safe. They don't complain. They start looking. And the reason they give in the exit interview is never the real one.
She Checked If Her Daughter was Breathing. Then She Went to Work
1 in 4 working parents is dealing with an emotionally struggling child right now. In a 200-person company that’s roughly 30 employees carrying something heavy in silence. This post breaks down what parenting stress is actually costing your organization, why EAP isn’t enough, and what companies can do to support the working parents who show up every day pretending everything is fine. Includes the free Workplace Signal Check.