The Impact of Employee Health and Wellbeing on Your Bottom Line?
Working with individuals on work-life balance, as well as with groups, I am seeing more and more people with adrenal stress, very often caused by stress from work. Reasons for the stress vary, however these can be self inflicted, such as wanting to be a perfectionist, the inability to say “no”, poor time management, inability […]
Are your employees not performing because they are suffering from poor or lack of sleep?
According to the National Sleep Foundation “more than 40 percent of adults experience daytime sleepiness severe enough to interfere with their daily activities at least a few days each month – with 20 percent reporting problem sleepiness a few days a week or more”. A goods nights sleep and the preparation for sleep is as […]
In pursuit of perfectionism
Perfect or perfection is often thrown about in the business world as a desired state. This might be voiced as an exclamation – “Oh perfect!”, as a statement, related to a particular desired outcome – “That is almost perfect?” Clearly from the last sentence we can see that something is missing, not aligned correctly, has […]
Challenge or stress – it’s a fine line!
The dictionary defines stress as “a pressure or tension exerted on another object; a demand on physical or mental energy; or forcibly exerted influence usually causing distress or strain.” In short stress is any factor, positive or negative that requires a response or change. In medical research it is widely recognized that chronic ongoing stress […]
Trust Takes a Lifetime to Build and a Moment to Lose
Successful leadership and trust go hand in hand. Unless the leader has the trust of his or her team, leadership is likely to be ineffective and will probably fail on most levels. Earning trust takes time, losing it is quick. As leaders it is easy to find ourselves in situations that cast doubt over our […]
Stress is good – Well sort of…….?
When was the last time you walked into a train and saw people just sitting or standing looking into “space” or out of the window? When was the last time you walked in the street and everyone was mindful of where they are going, but not in a hurry to get there first? When was […]
What is the impact of morale on productivity?
I have been working with a hotel client who has been undergoing a change in ownership from one owner to another. Any kind of management buyout, transfer of ownership, or change of direction within an organization is guaranteed to create unease amongst the management and staff. Fear of the unknown is always daunting irrelevant of […]
Conflict Management
What is Conflict Management? I was looking at the term “conflict management” the other day and realized that it is often used interchangeably with “conflict resolution”. The difference, however is that the concept of conflict management is based on a premise that not all disputes end in resolution. Additionally, conflict management is the practice of […]