During mental health awareness month, there’s no shortage of companies who communicate what they’re doing to support their employees. Internally, we have also tried to celebrate the event with month-long initiatives that reiterate our own focus on mental health. However, when it came to how we could externally communicate why and how this issue mattered to our brand it is very hard not to seem self-serving.

Therefore, in this article, I want to present a retrospective on mental health month at Precis. In the same way that we might analyse a client’s account activities, I will look at the challenges, opportunities and long-term focus for how Precis can become better at taking care of our colleagues’ mental health. Our hope is that those of you wanting to understand our business will get an accurate picture of what we’re doing in this area and those who might be interested in joining us, understand exactly why and how this is a focus for us.