Managing Loneliness and Working Away From Home In this third episode, we welcome Tony Steel, Operations Director at Band of Builders and Jonathon Moorhouse, Head of Business from DGCOS. The podcast explores loneliness, how much of a problem it is; strategies to manage loneliness and working away from home; the downside of using drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms, and signposting to hubs that a…
Read MoreDGCOS Chief Executive, Faisal Hussain, has recently observed how poor planning can cost installers both time and money. Here he discusses how making just a few changes would help installers add to their bottom line. So much money is lost to the construction industry each year through avoidable error that there is an organisation dedicated to researching and eliminating it. The Get It Right Initiat…
Read MoreHow To Achieve Work-Life Balance and Manage Demands Episode Two of the new six-part special mental health and well-being podcast is now available. In this episode, guests Michael McGougan, Head of Membership at DGCOS and George Jones from Cahill Renewables discuss the issues surrounding work life balance. Michael and George kick off the podcast by acknowledging that most organisations and individu…
Read MoreBuilding on our two-year campaign for better mental health and wellbeing for those who work tirelessly in our sector to deliver home improvements, we decided that there was so much more we can do to help. So, along with our other Schemes, we started a collaboration with the National Home Improvement Council (NHIC), to bring together medical experts, frontline charity workers and DGCOS representati…
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