Resources
Here you’ll find lots of great content from case studies and posters to training and advice.
Your quarterly newsletter
Breaking Waves is our quarterly newsletter. It’s full of the latest news, events and initiatives and it's tailored especially for you. We believe it's not only a great way to keep you up to date with what's happening at Wave but also to encourage collaboration and find new ways we can work together.
Don't forget, if you have any successes, stories or pictures you'd like to feature in our next issue, just let your account manager know.
Take a look at our latest editions!
Wave resources
In this section you’ll find links to some of the great resources we’ve created to support our customers. Not only do we have blogs on all kinds of topics that you can share with your employees, why not keep water at the forefront of their minds and download some of our posters for your organisation. Plus, see how we can help when things go wrong with our bank of case studies.
Download our posters to raise awareness across your organisation
Get help using My Account with our how to videos
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Cost of Living resources
With 12 million people borrowing money for food and essential bills, our partner Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has shared links to resources to help support people through the challenging cost-of-living rise.
Whether it’s increasing bills, managing debt, or understanding your pension, here’s a link to some useful tools, calculators and guides to help with money management.
MaPS’s cost of living campaign has downloadable assets, so you can share these valuable resources with your employees. Visit their website to find:
- Newsletter content
- Intranet content
- Social media posts
- Posters
- Cost of living booklet
- Videos covering topics such as budgeting
Visit Money and Pensions Service
Wholesaler freebies
Did you know that lots of wholesalers offer free water saving kits to use around your home and in your garden? These kits include easy-to-use products such as shower regulators, shower timers, sink plugs and tap inserts to name just a few – we can all do our bit to use less water.
Simply click on your wholesaler and follow the instructions on their website to access your free water saving devices to use at home.
Wellbeing resources
Our HR team works tirelessly to share helpful resources that support our people’s physical and mental health. Take a look at some of the content we’re sharing over the coming months that you can use to support your employees.
World Breastfeeding Awareness Week: 1 – 7 August
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a global celebration to champion breastfeeding. From 1st – 7th of August the aim is to raise awareness, share knowledge, and advocate for policies that support breastfeeding.
- 2 in 5 children in low and middle-income countries are put to the breast within the first hour of life.
- The World Health Assembly (WHA) aims to increase the global rate of exclusive breastfeeding to at least 50% by 2025.
- Breastfeeding aligns with all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It’s a powerful force for positive change.
How to support breastfeeding at work
Employers play a pivotal role in a breastfeeding-friendly workplace. Here’s some of the things that can be put in place:
- Flexible Work Arrangements - New mothers need flexibility. Consider options like working from home, adjusted hours, or part-time schedules. A supportive work environment allows mothers to balance their professional and maternal roles.
- Private Spaces - Designate private, comfortable spaces where mothers can express milk or breastfeed.
- Breastfeeding Breaks - Encourage regular breaks for breastfeeding.
- Education and Awareness - Educate employees about the benefits of breastfeeding.
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action – A global network of individuals and organisations dedicated to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide.
Training resources
We're lucky to work with some great training partners who want to help your organisation support employee wellbeing, improve staff resilience and keep people learning each and every day. Take a look at some of the recent content from the likes of Wishfish and JS Achieve.
Wishfish
Wishfish was founded by Debbie Green and delivers wellness coaching to support an extraordinary life. The team help you to explore your individual potential and connect with others to unlock a more compassionate existence.
Wishfish offer personal coaching and team coaching to develop your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness and can provide support across a variety of topics including anxiety, confidence, communication skills, imposter syndrome, stress, career change, leadership, resilience, motivation plus much more.
Meet the Wishfish trainers
Debbie Green, Coach & Facilitator - Owner and Founder
Debbie believes that anything is possible with the right attitude, the right mindset and unwavering confidence, faith and self-belief. And, having moved from the wonderful and eclectic world of HR into the brilliant world of learning and development and coaching she has found her passion and her niche in being able to work with everyone and anyone. She’s passionate about empowering, inspiring and supporting people, their teams, their leaders, their managers, their nearest and dearest to be the very best version of themselves.
Laura Thompson, Future Skills Consultant
With a background in Psychology, Laura has been developing and delivering phenomenal culture change, communication and leadership programmes for organisations since 2000. She’s co-created some awesome learning events with a breadth of clients which include Unilever, Heathrow Airport, The Body Shop, Thames Tideway, Southampton Port and various school leadership teams. As well as chairing panel discussions, speaking at conferences and writing articles, she has had her careers advice featured in various publications and her 2016 TEDx talk focuses on how we can stay human amid the digital revolution.
Wishfish resources
Creating Professional Headspace
We’re all adjusting to new ways of working and with more home working than ever before, it can be easy for boundaries to slip and lines to blur. This session from Wishfish aims to help you maintain your headspace and protect your time to think, breathe and look after yourself, helping you thrive both now and in the future.
From hacking your neurotransmitters to channelling your emotions, this session explores three main areas:
- Hack Your Synapses: The four brain chemicals for success and how to unlock and activate day to day
- Max Your Headroom: Dealing with disruption and channelling your attention
- The Power of Stillness: Essentialism; the human need for stillness creating boundaries to think
Secrets from a coach podcast
Join in the fun of learning with Debs and Lau each Friday lunchtime. With the emphasis on action Debs & Lau mix in guests to keep things fresh and diverse. Topics include teamship, resilience, change, leadership, mindset, careers, success, wellness, motivation, mental health, self-care, time management, hybrid working and confidence.
If you're looking for ways to help you thrive and maximise your potential in the evolving workplace, have a listen today.
JS Achieve
John Sunderland-Wright is experienced in the design and delivery of performance improvement plans to help motivate people to be the best they can be. He uses a range of tools and techniques to help those who suffer from a lack of confidence and performance issues to improve their energy and health and see positive improvements in their performance.
His expertise lies in personal resilience. He works with the latest biofeedback technology and uses developments in neuroscience to establish a simple range of health and wellbeing tools as well as techniques to help build neuroplasticity and cardio health.
John has delivered mentoring, coaching and training sessions over the past 20 years to tens of thousands of individuals and groups working in start-ups, SMEs, corporates, public sector organisations and with a number of elite sports performers, including the Olympic Diving Team, British gymnastics, professional golfers, cricket and football teams.
Boosting Your Resilience
If you want to change your life, you need to change your brain! Boosting your resilience from John Sunderland-Wright is all about learning to deal with situations, through proven techniques to help rewire your brain.
This session will give you useful and practical tools from leading experts, to help you cope with the pressures of work and home. This session covers:
- Salutogenesis and how it may link to resilience
- How to fuel your brain
- How to wire positive thinking and realistic optimism
- How shifting left helps and how to gain better access to left frontal lobe
- FEED method and how it can help you start rewiring your brain
- Improving sleep
- How gratitude is a key emotion to build neurons and aid mindfulness.