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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How to Handle Difficult Questions with Confidence when Presenting
A guide to the P.E.A.C.E. process for Fielding Curveball Questions Picture this… You’ve spent hours, days, ...
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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 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 #9 – Perspective is Everything
Every day we are influenced by the media and risk losing perspective. How we view situations and our ability to ...
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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 #6 – Smile Though Your Heart is Aching
Were the writers of the song 'Smile' right when they invited us to ‘smile though your heart is aching’? From a ...
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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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What Exercise REALLY does to your Brain
Welcome to the final part of our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on Quality Sleep, click here and if you ...
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Are you feeding your Brain for Success?
Welcome to part 2 of 3 in our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on quality sleep, it’s just below ...
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What is Poor quality Sleep Really Costing You?
We’re all aware of the need for regular exercise and good nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but possibly ...
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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 Resilient Leader – How your Inner Game affects your Outer Game
Being a resilient leader starts with applying the oxygen mask analogy that before we can help others we need to ...
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What if Workplace Conflict were Productive?
The typical manager spends 30-50% of his or her time dealing with workplace conflict (IML Australia). This equates ...
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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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Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence
Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence As the clocks tick towards the end of 2016 and the beginning of ...
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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 well do you handle Rejection?
Strategies to help you deal effectively with rejection and move on and up so you return to productivity as soon as ...
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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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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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