Gratitude is the best attitude
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...
Resilience
Don’t power through – Power up!
There are typically two ways people try to deal with stress at work. One is to simply 'head down and power through' — to focus on getting the stressful work done. Leaders often have 'action orientated mindset' and want to find...
Are you preparing your managers to deal with the increase in anxiety levels?
Our workshops are practical, interactive and tailored to the working challenges your managers deal with each and everyday. The ONS reported via the Coronavirus and anxiety, Great Britain report that the factors most strongly associated with high anxiety during lockdown...
How to have fun on long virtual calls
I have had the best week! Working with a great client, together developing a 3-year plan to engage a global team. Lots of long calls, challenging team sessions and all virtual. At the start, the CEO set us all a challenge that...
International Stress Awareness Week
Next week's International Stress Awareness week (2nd - 6th November) aims to develop greater understanding of stress and the impact on our mental health during Covid-19. We are privileged to work with several global companies who have colleague’s ad suppliers across...
We all live in a yellow submarine – Learning about resilience from the Navy
Working remotely can bring us many challenges and during COVID-19 I have loved listening to Jon Bailey, a robot submarine driver, scuba instructor and former Navy submariner. Spending 90 days under water, with no internet he shares the tools and...
Building mental resilience in our leaders
We receive 11 million bits of information every second, but the executive, thinking centres of our brain can effectively process only 40 bits of information, according to Shawn Achor, co-founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and author of...
Don’t miss the basics
The hydration for health initiative has pulled together some brilliant research on the impact of dehydration on our brains, mood and thinking. Many of us our now wearing masks 8 hours a day, sat on video’s calls and could be...
What are you doing to get teams outdoors?
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...
Working virtually – prevent those aches and pains
There is a brilliant focus on helping colleagues achieve and maintain great mental health. Physical resilience is also important and working virtually many of us are spending the day looking down at laptops, sat all day not leaving our place of...