Discover why business leaders prioritise Fika for their teams
Fika is on a mission to mainstream mental fitness, and make everyday at work a bit better. Find out more from our team about the organisations that we’re working with, our underpinning mental fitness science and other exciting announcements.
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Workplace
Fed up of talking about stress? Ready to take action?
Stress is a reflection of poor working practices and behaviours. The best way to manage stress is to take action, and stop it at the source. So, when I saw the theme for Stress Awareness Month 2023, I breathed a sigh of relief.
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Mental Fitness: The key to wellbeing and performance.
Our mental health isn't something we should only pay attention to when we're struggling. Psychologists have been working on a recipe for both success and happiness. And mental fitness is the key ingredient. And just like our physical fitness, it’s something that we need to work on proactively.
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Workplace
No jargon, just impact. 3 guaranteed ways to improve wellbeing at work
The jargon approach to wellbeing can make it hard to talk about important topics and can lead to inaction. Being overly focused on a concept rather than the behaviours that help lead to it, doesn’t make work any better, in fact it likely makes it less inclusive.
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Workplace wellbeing trends: March 2023
In March 2023, Fika surveyed 202 workers in the US (working a minimum of 30 hours per week) to better understand current workplace wellbeing trends. Here's what we found.
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Zurich x Fika - Workplace wellbeing starts with how we work
Workplace wellbeing is in a state of decline, with rising numbers of UK workers struggling with poor wellbeing. There are countless wellbeing initiatives available, but many fail to get to the heart of dysfunctional working practices. Zurich Municipal’s partner, Fika, have developed team training software to support teams to work together more effectively and healthily.
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How Fika team training improves teams at work
At Fika, we’ve shown that our individual training works. Having launched team training software, we wanted to make sure it was equally effective.

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Announcing Brian Posner as Executive Chair of Fika - Press Release
Fika is honoured to name Brian Posner as Executive Chair of Fika, effective the 1st of February 2023. Having previously served as the company's non-Executive Chair, Mr Posner will not only serve shareholders as Chair of Fika’s board, but support Fika’s leadership team on the planning and implementation of our strategy.
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Workplace wellbeing trends: February 2023
Much has been made of the impact that the pandemic had on workers’ wellbeing. But our data shows that we’re certainly not out of the woods yet. Fika surveyed 650 workers in the UK to better understand current workplace wellbeing trends.
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People work for people: 4 skills you can train to become a good manager
The awareness that makes us great managers doesn’t come from a one off manager training course but from daily moments where we practise good communication, compassion and inclusion. And most importantly, knowing we need to practise these skills when we’re stressed and pressure is high, not just during the good times. So, what skills should we focus on when training managers? At Fika we have created a series of exercises that identify 4 trainable behaviours that help managers to support themselves and their people.

Mental Fitness
The science behind Fika’s proprietary Mental Fitness Scale and its predictive qualities
Just like physical fitness is made up of different systems and structures, so is mental fitness - the 7 skills of mental fitness which include; confidence, positivity, focus, motivation, meaning, connection and stress management. At Fika we have validated our own proprietary mental fitness scale to quantify the role that mental fitness plays in these outcomes at an individual, team and organisational level. While also using it to inform our smart recommendation engine.

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Fika x Healogix - Press Release
Fika is proud to announce it has launched with the US-based market research firm Healogix Consulting LLC as the first US-based client for its fully integrated, micro-training, Mental Fitness platform.
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Mental Fitness
Winning the Battle Against Burnout at Work: How Teamwork and Sport Can Help
Walking the thin line between burning bright and burning out is a challenge in the modern world of work. Despite employers best efforts, people are still exhausted, detached, and feeling "stuck". But burnout is rarely about the individual. It's about the environment where the individual works in. We surveyed the workforce to find out and developed a new approach to burnout prevention that tackles it at an organisational level.

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Let's make every day at work a bit better. Join our mission.
We think we can make every day at work a bit better. Agree? Join our mission.

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Inclusion is a choice: Micro-exclusions you are probably guilty of and how you can stop them
Not all exclusion is direct and intentional. The majority of exclusions we experience are micro-exclusions i.e. small behaviours that go under the radar but when experienced consistently are causal in our feelings of individual exclusion. As a result, people often come to believe that things will never change and, eventually, leave their roles. At Fika, we propose some micro-behaviour changes you and your teams should make that will help your colleagues feel more included.

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Boost your team mojo in 5 steps
Team morale is essential for effective collaboration and results. However, with our world of work changing rapidly, it has never been more difficult to keep teams engaged, committed, and connected.
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Lost your mojo? [5 techniques to try when you’re just not feeling it]
Temperatures have dropped and summer is well and truly over. And as sunrise gets later so does our wake up time which means early morning runs and gym routines start to slide.

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The perks of onboarding into a remote team: An employee’s story
At Fika we champion flexibility by being a remote first business. However, working remotely can be daunting at first, especially for new hires. So, we sat down for a conversation with one of our team members to learn more about his experience.

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Great onboarding: a secret weapon against attrition?
More than 1/4 of new hires leave a company within 6 weeks. More than 1/3 leave in the first 6 months. And of those who leave in the first year, half were thinking of leaving for 6 months or more. The impact of disengaged, one-foot-out-the-door employees on existing employees and clients is well known not to mention their reduced productivity levels and larger number of errors (Jaman et al, 2002).
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Unlock Successful Flexible Working with 3 Key Skills
Flexible working patterns (location and hours) remain the number one sought employee benefit. The opportunities to avoid rush hour traffic, to walk children to school and to repurpose commute times to exercise have all been cited as key quality of life reasons to continue working flexibly.

Education
Rebuilding post-16 education around mental fitness
As the dust settles and we assess life after lockdown, we will need to equip today’s learners with the skills they need to rebuild the economy, culture and society. Further education and post-16 education will play a vital role in this rebuilding – ‘ensuring more people can gain the skills they need to get ahead as the Skills Minister notes.

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Returning from maternity leave
I'd been told returning from maternity leave would be challenging ... but no one could have prepared me for how tough it would be.

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TEDx Talk: The 'Why' Behind Fika Mental Fitness
Fika Co-Founder & Co-CEO shares the 'why' behind Fika Mental Fitness

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It's time to celebrate positive mental health
When are we going to start celebrating it, not just keep trying to 'fix' it?

Workplace
What can prepare you for life as a working mum?
Earlier this week I spoke about the importance of building mental fitness before different career transitions. It was a timely reminder as I’m currently going through undoubtedly the biggest transition in my career to date.

Mental Fitness
Mental Fitness starts with our leaders
I’m sure at some point in our career we’ve all sat in front of a line manager and had a conversation about how overwhelmed or overworked we feel.

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Preparing for career transitions
I am a Sports Psychologist, and in sport, we take career transitions extremely seriously. We spend a huge amount of time working with athletes to better prepare them for the next stage of their career. Whether that be moving from junior to senior competition or preparing for life after sport.

Mental Fitness
Your mental health is within your control
The truth is it’s no wonder we’re so bad at acknowledging our mental fitness as our own responsibility, when as a society we haven’t been given the knowledge, skills or value system that would enable us to manage it.

Education
Making connections: a forgotten but essential education need
Fika and NCFE have worked together to recover vital career skills like connection, confidence and motivation for more than 18,000 young people across 69 further education centres in the wake of COVID-19

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Fika Mental Fitness to speak at The Watercooler Event in February
A new study has shown that over 54% of workers who take two or more mental health absences would ultimately leave their current job with the direct cost of absences throughout 2021 estimated to be a shocking £43 billion (excluding additional costs such as overtime, temporary staff, admin fees etc)

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Fika Mental Fitness joins prestigious DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme
Today Fika Mental Fitness is proud to announce we are one of the 21 digital health companies selected for DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator programme. The 21 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) selected for the Accelerator 2022 programme have digital solutions or services that have the highest potential to meet London’s NHS and social care challenges.

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Fika Mental Fitness Selected for the GSV Cup Elite 200
Fika Mental Fitness has been selected as one of the The Elite 200, the acclaimed list of semifinalists in The GSV Cup — the world’s largest pitch competition for EdTech startups run by female-led, multi-stage venture capital firm GSV Ventures.
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DFS Group rolls out staff mental fitness training with Fika
DFS Group has joined forces with Fika Mental Fitness to embed mental fitness training into its employee experience - aiming to improve staff engagement and productivity, and proactively train its people in how to be the best versions of themselves.

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How to turn your leaders into mental fitness role models
The Great Resignation. COVID-19. Hybrid. Today’s managers and leaders face the perfect storm of headwinds – and two years on from the start of the pandemic, they’re running on empty.

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Stress, performance and productivity: the role of leadership
‘What tools and techniques can I give to my staff to help them better manage stress?’ This is one of the most common requests that I get as a Psychologist. And it’s a perfectly reasonable request in view of the fact that last year UK employees were found to be working an extra 2 hours each day.

Mental Fitness
How to model mental fitness at work
Culture starts at the top - so as leaders, the first step we can take to creating a culture of mental fitness in our organisations is to become mental fitness role models ourselves.

Workplace
Three steps you can take to look after your leaders
COVID-19. Hybrid. The Great Resignation. Mass reports of staff burnout.

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Time to Talk Day: the power of active listening
When it comes to important conversations - don't underestimate the power of active listening.
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Fika partners with Zurich Municipal to address mental health in education
Fika Mental Fitness has partnered with Zurich Municipal insurance to address mental health in education - as four in five school leaders say mental health is the biggest challenge facing their organisation.

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Crest Nicholson invests in staff mental fitness training with Fika
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has today announced a pioneering new partnership with mental fitness platform Fika to proactively prevent mental health decline and improve performance by building the mental fitness skills of its 700 employees.

Workplace
How to turn 'conversations' into meaningful connections
When it comes to talking - there's talking, and there's really talking, isn't there?

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Offsetting the risks of hybrid working: Is Mental Fitness the answer?
Breakfast with family, longer sleep, quieter space to focus, few unwelcome interruptions, you would be forgiven for thinking that hybrid working was one of the few perfect outcomes from a two year long pandemic. It presents a crystal clear antidote for those employees who want to keep in person social connections with colleagues and those who have found their true life balance in working from home.

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How digital solutions can play a role in building inclusion, belonging and diversity in the workplace
What if a digital solution existed that had the potential to grant permission and structure for every employee in the workplace to have a voice and be heard? Would this increase their sense of belonging and inclusion? And more importantly, could it tackle the lack of diversity in some workplaces?

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The Great Resignation: how to hold onto your staff by keeping them engaged
Recent reports into the great resignation suggest as many as a quarter of us are intending to leave our jobs within the next six months, and resignation rates are already at their highest since 2009. The financial impact of this mass exodus could be enormous, with the average cost of employee turnover in those earning over £25,000 a year estimated to be £30,614.

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From 'time off' to 'time in': how to replace burnout culture
Taking time off is essential for wellbeing. Our physical and mental health benefit from hitting pause. But many of us are unable to keep the pause button on. We check our emails, our messaging channels and even attend some meetings in our downtime. A staggering 65% of us eat into our leave time with work, making it a regular, almost expected occurrence.

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Why it’s time to invest in your teams
The rise in agile, digital and knowledge-based businesses is making effective teamwork more important than ever, as companies compete to innovate. At the same time, the increase in remote working is challenging teams in ways they’ve never been challenged before. So, what can businesses do to ensure confident and cohesive team performance, despite the challenges that come with working remotely?
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