Two Teesside wellbeing firms team up to help employers fight anger in the workplace

Employee wellbeing organisation, Key Wellbeing, and Matthew Williams, men’s mental health support advocate and founder of Knock Out Depression have joined forces to create a knockout toolkit for organisations ahead of Anger Awareness Week (1-7th December).

The kit includes a week’s worth of carefully-crafted resources for employers to use throughout Anger Awareness Week and beyond to better understand office rage, support employees and ultimately create an open, safe and supportive workplace.

Employers will learn everything from the key ways to handle an angry employee and how staff can keep their cool at work to interactive calming techniques and the many lessons that boxing can unexpectedly teach us about anger in the workplace.

Key Wellbeing’s Commercial Director, Marie Ranson said:

“Anger is an emotion that is often hugely misunderstood by many. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, we’re all HUMAN and feel it at some point. It’s how we manage it that’s important. We hope that with our free resources we can help employers to gain a better understanding of anger in the workplace and how to handle it.”

Matthew Williams said:

“I’ve really enjoyed working with Key Wellbeing and using some of my boxing examples to raise more awareness of difficult emotions like anger at work. Businesses may be wondering what on earth boxing has to do with the workplace, but it can actually teach us some really important lessons to rethink and refocus office rage.”

Marie Ranson, added:

“It’s great to collab with another Teesside University Launchpad business, especially someone that shares our passion for supporting wellbeing and starting those all-important conversations around mental health, like Matthew does.”

And this isn’t the first collaboration that Key Wellbeing have had with fellow Launchpad businesses in the Victoria Road building. Earlier this year the team worked with creative games studio OmniPlay and Teesside University Masters Animation student to develop creative assets for their Wellbeing Workshop Weeks.

Lizzie Dixon, Enterprise Officer at Teesside University said:

“Launchpad is all about community, so it is exciting to see two companies that have been through Launchpad’s FUEL programme working together on such an important project.”

Employers can download the knock-out toolkit on anger in the workplace at: https://keywellbeing.co.uk/employers-knockout-toolkit-for-anger-at-work/