Promoting Wellbeing for Chartered Accountants
At Chartered Accountants Worldwide, we acknowledge the profound impact of mental health on work performance, relationships, and the overall quality of life. We delve into the importance of fostering employee wellbeing in our fast-paced industry. Depression and anxiety, prevalent mental health conditions, exert a significant economic toll, amounting to US$ 1 trillion each year on the global economy.
The Gallup Global Employee Survey paints a concerning picture, revealing that less than a quarter of the world’s employees feel they are thriving at work, underscoring the urgency to address this growing challenge. The McKinsey Health Institute’s extensive survey across 15 countries and 15,000 employees unearths a stark reality – 59% of the workforce grapples with mental health challenges, highlighting the imperative for employers to intervene and support their teams.
This holds true for the Chartered Accountancy profession as well, where stress and burnout are issues, affecting over half of Chartered Accountants. Managers within this industry play a pivotal role in shaping a conducive work environment that fosters mental, emotional, and physical health. Recognising the direct link between comprehensive support and heightened engagement and productivity, it becomes both an ethical and strategic responsibility to manage wellbeing effectively.
The Chartered Accountants Worldwide global wellbeing taskforce acknowledges this imperative and is proud to introduce our revamped wellbeing toolkit for managers. This toolkit stands as a comprehensive guide, arming managers with crucial insights, strategies, and best practices to cultivate a thriving and dynamic team. Above all, it emphasises the critical need to build resilience and purpose within the workplace, contributing to a more productive, rewarding, and compassionate work environment. Together, let’s pave the way towards a brighter future for the Chartered Accountancy profession by prioritising mental health and fostering a culture of holistic wellbeing.
Wellbeing Poll
Mental Health resources for Chartered Accountants
Here is a list of dedicated wellbeing hubs setup from some of the Chartered Accountants Worldwide Member Institutes:
Download the Toolkit
Wellbeing Toolkit
This toolkit stands as a comprehensive guide, arming managers with crucial insights, strategies, and best practices to cultivate a thriving and dynamic team. Above all, it emphasises the critical need to build resilience and purpose within the workplace, contributing to a more productive, rewarding, and compassionate work environment. Together, let’s pave the way towards a brighter future for the Chartered Accountancy profession by prioritising mental health and fostering a culture of holistic wellbeing.
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Difference Makers Discuss… Mental Health Matters
Join our Difference Makers as we uncover the issues around mental health and wellbeing affecting Chartered Accountants and the business & finance sector more broadly. In this episode our Difference Makers discuss Mental Health Matters. Guests include Ronan Dunne, Jonny Jacobs, and Dee France.
Insights on Wellbeing
Insights on Wellbeing
As we observe Stress Awareness Week 2024, it’s crucial to highlight the challenges faced by all of us in the accountancy profession—a high-stakes, detail-oriented field that often grapples with tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and complex regulatory environments. Whether you’re a seasoned accountant or just starting your career, managing stress is essential for both your amental health and professional performance.
Whistleblowing is not the magic cure for unethical behaviour, but there is a place for it.
An unprecedented number of corporate and government scandals in recent years have revealed an apparent shortcoming in the governance and ethics framework. This newfound focus has led to the introduction of a plethora of new rules and codes aimed at achieving a desired outcome.
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Jonny Jacobs – Ending the stigma around mental health
In this episode Indy meets Jonny Jacobs CA, is the Finance Director EMEA at Starbucks, he is also a passionate advocate for positive mental health.
Jonny speaks openly about his own struggles with mental health in his teens and talks about the importance of acknowledging challenges people may be experiencing in their lives.
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Online Events & Webinars
Online Events & Webinars
One clear way that Chartered Accountant Member Institutes are rising to this challenge is in the creation and hosting of online events and activities.
We are working with the Institutes to present the events that have a global perspective and are available to Chartered Accountants everywhere.
Webinars on demand
In this episode of Difference Makers Discuss Live, we meet SAICA member Thembeka Maseko. Raised by her grandparents in Cape Town’s informal settlements after being abandoned by her parents, Thembeka’s journey is a compelling testament to resilience and the transformative power of education.
In this episode of Difference Makers Discuss Live, we meet SAICA member Thembeka Maseko. Raised by her grandparents in Cape Town’s informal settlements after being abandoned by her parents, Thembeka’s journey is a compelling testament to resilience and the transformative power of education.
In this episode of Difference Makers Discuss Live, we explore the transformative role of Chartered Accountants in driving global sustainability. The conversation, led by Ainslie van Onselen, Chair of CAW and CEO of CA ANZ sees Jessica Fries, Executive Chair of A4S, shed light on the pivotal shift from voluntary to mandatory sustainability practices.
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Grace Tighe | Global Connectedness
Grace Tighe | Global Connectedness
Grace Tighe | Global Connectedness
Grace Tighe | Global Connectedness
While some fell down internet rabbit holes, Lewis Drummond from ICAS - The Professional Body of CAs used lockdowns to expand his knowledge and explore creative ideas – before opting to commence CA training straight from school. To mark International Men’s Day, he talks about his hopes for ...deeper ICAS engagement and his determination to make an impact : https://camagazine.icas.com/ca-november-2024/people/unique-perspectives-lewis-drummond/index.html #DifferenceMaker #InternationalMensDay
Lewis Drummond used his time in lockdown to expand his knowledge and explore the power of positive role models
camagazine.icas.com
Highlights from "Integrating Finance, Fashion, and Family with CFO Michelle Shuttleworth"
Integrating Finance, Fashion, and Family: Michelle Shuttleworth’s Inspiring Journey
Fantastic Presidents dinner @Stationer’s Hall, London. Thank you @charteredaccountantsanz for having us. #differencemakers
ICAS - The Professional Body of CAs summit is BACK!!!
Join them – 19 – 20 November 15.00 to 17.00 GMT each day
Connect to the big ideas in business and finance
The CA Summit is back for 2024. Join our award-winning virtual event to connect with the big ideas that are ...shaping the way you live and work.
Hear from leading voices in business, technology, economics and politics, with interviews, panel discussions and interactive sessions, all broadcast live from the CA Summit studio.
Over two hours each day we’ll break down the big ideas, offer insights, answers to your questions and strategies to help you stay ahead of the curve.
More here: https://charteredaccountantsworldwide.com/event/icas-ca-summit-2024/
Well now - episode 2 of season 2 of DMD Live is almost upon us. @icas - The Professional Body of CAs member, @Michelle Shuttleworth is our guest. She is a force of nature, hugely entertaining, inspiring and so easy to listen to. Don't miss her - live on CAW's LinkedIn feed on 14th Sept. ...at 1800 GMT. #differencemakers
Next episode of DMD live with the amazing @icas_accounting member, Michelle Shuttleworth is being broadcast on 14th Nov @1800 GMT live on our LinkedIn #differencemakers #webinar
