Has it ever crossed your mind that it could be lack of sleep causing you to gain weight? Multiple studies show a significant link between sleep deprivation and a tendency to gain weight. In fact; high quality sleep is associated with...
Thank you, Christopher Littlefield, for your great ideas on 'team building activities for remote meetings.' Having fun is so important whether you are working remotely or in the office and he has heaps of ideas for those teams working remotely. Today we...
A recent survey of more than 180 business leaders found that four out of 10 (43%) say they do not get enough sleep at least four nights a week. Leaders are standing behind great mental health programmes but often find themselves...
You can even do this exercise in team meetings and then revisit what you all wrote in a few months time. Over time, you will find that you have a jar full of reasons to be thankful for what you have...
We have all been brilliant at work, changing our ways of working, smashing to bits barriers that prevented us from allowing colleagues to work from home, using virtual channels as means of communication, the list of changes is huge and...
“I am exhausted and cannot think of ideas to engage my team before Christmas, we are ‘virtually’ drained.” November can be a brilliant month of fun as you start getting your teams to think about ways to improve their wellbeing. Below are...
The dark evenings are creeping up on us. In many of the workshops we design and deliver, lots of employees have asked us about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) . As more and more of us work from home, our journeys into...
It is well documented that those who are working from home doing lots of video calls, learning to love the screen, are facing an extra layer of fatigue. How many of you are helping colleagues try new rituals to keep...
Turn on the audio, go for a walk, social distance and be more creative. There is heaps if research that find the act of walking leads to increases in creative thinking. Plenty of anecdotal evidence also suggests that walking meetings lead...
During our virtual training, we have had some ‘proper belly laughs’. Delivery men banging on windows, dogs insisting their voice should be heard and children showing us how great teddies, dolls and wrestlers are and how stupid we , as...