Following a very stressful year last year I’m happy to say that I’m now through the other side and have learned ...
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often go Awry – A Very Personal Story
A personal story about dealing with stress
Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace – a Preventative, Proactive Approach
Psychological health and safety in the workplace now have the same levels of recognition and importance as physical ...
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7 Lessons in Leadership, Teamwork and Resilience from Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
70 years ago today 29th may 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit ...
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A Christmas ‘To Do’ List with a Difference – from Doing to Being in 5 Easy Steps
What’s in a List? A friend recently shared this meme and it spoke volumes to me about how we can best serve ...
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Why fixing Dripping Taps and Squeaky Hinges can Trump a New Coffee Machine!
When leading people we can often get disgruntled by their quibbles, gripes and complaints but taking a moment to ...
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Shaking up Leadership – The Shifting Expectations of Employees on Leaders
The face of leadership is changing and the qualities desired of a leader are being driven by the people. It's time ...
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Why am I so Tired? Exploring our Allostatic Load
Feeling ‘MEH’? Wherever you are reading this, it’s probably safe to assume that things are still very ...
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The Changing Face of Wellbeing at Work
Sometimes you have to look for the gift in the challenge. The particular gift I’d like to share in this article is ...
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Mastering your GAME PLAY this Holiday Season
How to make sure you leave 2020 and start 2021 in the best mindset possible. Learn to relax, play, be present and ...
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Resilience Bites #10 – Getting Comfortable with Change
We’re starting to hear conversations about ‘getting back to normal’ and ‘returning to the old ways’. This is a ...
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Resilience Bites #8 – Masterfully Managing Distraction in Action
Are you noticing yourself getting more distracted? Working from home, you might be aware that you are making more ...
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Resilience Bites #7 – The Enduring Power of Gratitude
It has been very moving to see people beginning to go back to some parts of the lives they once knew and sharing ...
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Resilience Bites #5 – Why Connection is Critical
Our need for connection is being challenged more than ever before - it is critical for us human beings to stay ...
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Resilience Bites #4 – Control the Controllables
When we see a social media post starting with ‘Good morning inmates’ we know that we are not alone in our sense of ...
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Resilience Bites #3 – Feeding Our Brain for Resilience
Our willpower is being tested to the hilt whilst we're in 'lockdown' resulting in the temptation to raid the fridge ...
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Resilience Bites #2 – How to Unleash our Superhero Brain
One of the critical skills of resilience lies between our ears, learning how to calm our instinctual emotional ...
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Resilience Bites #1 – Self-isolating doesn’t mean self-isolation
As Australia does what it needs to do to contain this pandemic, we are being told to self-isolate. A friend posted ...
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Change Management, Neuroscience and Toilet Rolls
An understanding as to how our brains are behaving when we rush to the supermarket to buy toilet rolls when the ...
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How to Grow Your Mindset and Thrive in the Silly Season
As we move towards the end of another busy year with all the excitement and challenges of ‘the silly season’, ...
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Expand your Knowledge with some Inspiring Summer Reading
Often when I speak or run development programmes I’m asked what books I might recommend – therein lies ...
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Exploring the Predictable Dynamics of Change
There is so much that we can predict about how we react or respond to change and once we know this we can change ...
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Why Zebras* (and probably Reindeer) won’t be stressing this Christmas
Understanding your Brain on Stress How many of us are worrying about organising Christmas, stressing about ...
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Strategies for Building Certainty in Chaos and Change
When our core needs are not met we go into aversive or negative stress, when we go into stress we cannot think ...
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Gratitude in the Workplace and why it Matters
Gratitude underpins resilience and our life satisfaction levels (happiness). When we are faced with setbacks and ...
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Changing the Habits of Habit
Habits habits everywhere, some good, some bad, all well engrained. From the time the alarm goes off or little ...
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