Post COVID 19: 5 Steps to Creating Strong Immune Health in the Workplace
With the loosening of lockdown guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic, HR directors, CEO’s and other organisation managers will be thinking hard and planning the return to work and how to protect themselves and their team members from this particular virus and any other seasonal bug that comes along. In many cases, due to the physical […]
Seven Actions in Working with Customers during a Crisis
Having lived successfully through two previous crises as the founder and director of a business in Russia, the 1998 financial crisis and the 2008 economic crisis, it stands me in good stead to work through this current economic, business and health crisis caused by actions and directives taken by governments globally, in response to the […]
Working from Home? Distracted & Struggling with Motivation?
The present lockdown experienced by the majority working from home has lost its sex-appeal. The novelty of being at home, and often working in a onesie or your pyjamas, no longer has the initial draw and excitement of going back to the inner child. Things have become “business as usual” in the home setting with […]
Nurturing Leadership – The New Norm?
COVID19 has replaced Brexit as the trigger for urgent and critical business change. Organizations have become decentralised as teams and individuals are made to work remotely from home. Or they are temporarily disbanded where staff are furloughed. Most companies will have now completed all the actions necessary to decrease costs, meet the government directive to […]
The Connection Between Leadership, Relationships & Burnout
This blog was born from a conversation held recently with a new client. This client came for a herbal medicine and naturopathy consultation. Through asking several questions, it became clear that this client was very close to or was already suffering adrenal “burn out” due to stress. In our conversation she mentioned that she works […]
Leadership – Can You Stomach It?
“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables It is my gut feeling that this is the right time to address the topic of digestion, the stomach and the gut and how they relate to leadership. The saying in the English language “I can’t stomach it”, can […]
How Can You Lead Others If You Are Running On Empty?
How many business leaders do you know who miss lunch breaks, work at the weekends, work well into the evenings and have vacation days stacking up? Or is this you? If it is you, you are probably well aware of what you are doing, and have perhaps made some New Year resolutions for yourself to […]
What is Intuitive Leadership?
In day-to-day operations when things go wrong and there is a problem to solve, the first place that we all invariably go is to the facts surrounding the situation. Through understanding and analysing those facts, we make a decision. Are decisions based solely on facts combined with previous experience of a similar situation, or do […]
Does your working day eat into your lunch break?
As with most things in the UK around working hours and conditions there is legislation that dictates the amount of hours worked in relation to the time allocated and legally allowed for a break. I would suggest that most companies are not only aware of this, but also follow the legislation, explaining to employees the […]
How to Take Responsibility of Your Life
Winston Churchill once said, “The price of greatness is responsibility.” How does this phrase reflect what is meant by ‘taking responsibility’? As defined by the English Oxford dictionary, responsibility is: The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone. Example: “a true leader takes responsibility for […]