Fear of losing their job, of being a burden to colleagues but needing to work for all kinds of reasons.
Those worries are with someone right now, somewhere. The stark reality is too many businesses have no cancer awareness policy. Zero. And so when a staff member is diagnosed, no one has a clue how to respond.
How to support them, how to talk to them even and certainly not introducing a cancer awareness policy that all staff can benefit from in the long term.
Basically, we're still not having that conversation at work. And that breeds uncertainty and ignorance.
Sharron Moffatt is a mental health trainer and a supercharged workplace cancer support ambassador. And she's currently in treatment for triple-positive breast cancer.
It's that work-based cancer conversation that is seriously overdue in her opinion and needs to happen now...as she explains to Mike...
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Sharron's website
And on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharron-moffatt-mental-health-trainer
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