Priming the Tigers
The work of Barbara Fredrickson (2001), and other researchers, has told us how important it is to experience positive emotions like joy, hope, pride, amusement, love and gratitude, in order to be more optimistic, resilient, accepting, curious, happier and healthier overall. When it comes to work, positive emotions have also been found to build better […]
The Key to Achieving Your Goals
Unlike my last post on how to set goals for 2020, this one is going to focus on motivation, which may already be dwindling for you one month into the new year, yet is crucial in helping you achieve your goals. Motivation can be a powerful force in shaping who we are and how we […]
Where’s Your Psychological Safety At?
Are you able to be yourself at work, make mistakes, take risks, ask questions, raise problems or disagree? If your answer is yes, then psychological safety may be high within your team or workplace. Unfortunately for a lot of people, their work environment is ruled by fear; they are constantly in impression management mode so […]
Are you addicted to your work?
Do you feel like you never truly switch off from work? Does it feel like there is always someone to call or an email to read or reply to? Does your work feel like an addiction that you constantly need to feed? If the answer is yes to these questions, you could be suffering from […]
Feature Review: The Call to Courage
I have been slightly obsessed with Brené Brown for some time. Don’t be concerned if you haven’t heard of her before, she isn’t quite a household name yet but this may be about to change thanks to Netflix. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and has spent the past two decades […]
The Elephant and the Blind Men
How often do you come across someone who makes a statement based on their limited or isolated understanding of a topic and believes it to be the only truth? I see this a lot in the media and in my own circles, and I am happy to put up my hand and say I am […]
Wishin’ and Hopin’
Happy New Year! We are well into 2019 so now is a good time to reflect on your goals and / or resolutions for this year. Have you already achieved what you set out? For those who have, have a think about what your motivation was like when you started. Were your goals supported by […]
Book Review: The Power of Now
Do you ever find yourself trying to escape the present? Rather than concentrating on what you are doing at this very moment, are you listing off the hundred things you have to do in the future? Or worrying about the past instead? Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” was first published in the 1990s and […]
Play To Your Strengths
One of the biggest breakthroughs in psychology and leadership theories over the past decade has been in the area of strengths. Strengths can be defined as a “pre-existing capacity for a particular way of behaving, thinking or feeling that is authentic and energising to the user, and enables optimal functioning, development and performance” (Linley, 2008). […]
In the Business of Wellbeing
There is no ignoring the fact that unwell employees are expensive to organisations. Beyond Blue has found that depression and anxiety alone cost Australian businesses about $10.9 billion a year. The financial implications associated with having unwell employees is not the only cost to businesses however, there are productivity costs also such as the inability […]