5 Lifestyle Tips that Support Mental & Cognitive Wellbeing
Avatar was released in December 2009 and it took the world by storm taking the top place for film viewing since Titanic which stood at $2.218 billion while Avatar to this day stands at $2.2433 billion. It took me a long time to actually decide to watch this movie, having done so I watched it […]
Game-Based E-Learning – Six Reasons to Include Games in Your Content
The latest figures on attention span of most people is anywhere between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. How does this impact learning and development especially in relation to on-line e-Learning? Basically, what this means is that content needs to include a variety of activities to support content while capturing attention to lead to learning. Talking […]
I Will Honour Christmas in My Heart
“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” Beautiful words from Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol Christmas is a special time for most, surrounded by family and festive cheer. To get to this point often triggers stress levels to ensure everything and everyone is remembered whether by […]
Why is Leadership Development Important?
The Health & Safety Executive estimated that 31.5 million working days were lost due to work-related physical and mental health in 2022/23. If including work-related non-fatal injuries the figure is a staggering 32.5 million days lost to organisations and businesses. Think about the impact of lost workdays on your business and why leadership development is important?
Employee Engagement Stagnates while Mental Health Escalates
With the advent of the still recent fallout from the pandemic and the impact on society we are seeing an acute escalation in mental ill-health disorders including anxiety, depression, ADHD in children especially, and fatigue. Could there be a link between employee engagement and the need for “social belonging as well as the need for […]
To Invest in Leadership Development or Not? That is the Question
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The Health & Safety Executive estimated that 31.5 million working days were lost due to work-related and mental health in 2022/23. If including work-related non-fatal injuries the figure is a staggering 32.5 million days lost to organisations and businesses. Think about the impact of lost workdays on your business? Is management of stress a function […]
How Sustainable is Your Human Resource Strategy?
Recently I attended a webinar that was focused to helping make businesses sustainable which got me thinking about sustainability in deeper terms than usually addressed through our media and government. My question to the person leading this webinar was, “You have given a case study in this session which you are using to show good […]
Who or What is the Heartbeat of Your Orginisation?
Usually we talk about the heart in relation to our health or the health of someone else. The heart can be physically sick, such as a heart attack, angina, arrhythmia or heart failure. We also talk about a “broken heart” referring to emotional trauma of some kind. In the English language this means that someone […]
Are you Engaging Your Employees?
The human body is a complex structure with many integrated systems that work in harmony. The heart is the conductor of the orchestra connecting organs and systems with the arteries and the veins. Taking this analogy and applying it to an organisation, is there any difference? The heart of the organisation is the culture, the […]
Lessons from Janus the Two-Faced God
Janus, the Roman god, to whom we owe the naming of the first month of the year, January, looked forward into the future while also having the wisdom for reflection and resolution of the past. Starting a new year is a perfect time for closure on things as well as to reflect while making plans […]