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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How to Free Yourself from Thinking Traps this Festive Season
When our reserves are low, it’s easy to fall into thinking traps; we’re either ruminating on the past or ...
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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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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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Time for a Selfie – Turning the Lens on Ourselves for Self-care
There has never been a time greater than now to prioritise some self-care and take a few practical steps to refresh ...
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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 #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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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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What’s so Funny about the Holiday Season?
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Dr. Seuss We know that Christmas ...
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The Changing Face of Leadership in the 21st Century – where YOU become the Superhero
The 21st century leader is you and I, is anyone who belongs to an organisation and has a deep seated desire to be a ...
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Train your Brain to Thrive this Holiday Season
Our brain is like Velcro for bad news and Teflon for good. From evolution, we are programmed to default to the ...
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Counting (on) The Cost of Trust
From a work perspective, a ‘psychologically safe’ workplace is defined as 'a climate of interpersonal trust and ...
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Can I give you some Feedback?
When we are asked by someone if we would like feedback, our brains default to the negative and assume it’s going to ...
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3 Key Strategies for Thriving in the Ever-Changing World of Being an Author
This is an article I wrote for www.thecreativepenn.com Every day we hear of new strategies for writing faster or ...
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Why Storytelling can be a Leader’s Secret Weapon
When we listen to stories we are transported, not just because we are in a different state of brainwave, but ...
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Are you Paying Attention or Paying for a Lack of it?
Our ability to maintain focus and attention relies on our ability to manage our thinking and look after our brain. ...
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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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How to Increase your Personal Engagement at Work
Strategies to increase genuine engagement at work so that you remain focused, attentive and productive and enjoy ...
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How will you celebrate success at work at the end of today?
It’s Friday, many people in the workplace might feel like they’ve been swimming through treacle since returning ...
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The Key to Building a Tribe from a Team through Social Capital
What makes a good team great? What makes one team gel and another continually end up in conflict? When pondering ...
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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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Creating a Culture where no-one wants to Retire
Much research has been done on happiness and meaning at work by Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North ...
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Inspiring 21st Century Leadership with the i4 Neuroleader Tool
A Message for Learning and Development Professionals The Changing Face of Developing Leaders Over the last few ...
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Why it’s Time to Take Positivity Seriously
Picture this; it’s the end of your working day and on the whole it’s been a great day. You started with a friendly ...
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