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Employee Engagement in the 21st Century – No Longer Nice to Have But Essential
According to Bersin by Deloitte, “employee engagement (by 2016) has become the top issue on the minds of business leaders, directing us to an entirely new model of management”. Firstly, we need to understand what Employee Engagement is, why it is growing in importance...
Monday Motivation
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open” — Frank Zappa
Why Mentally Tough People Miss Out On FOMO
If there is one thing mentally tough people miss out on, its FOMO. FOMO, for the uninitiated is the Fear Of Missing Out, which according to the Urban Dictionary and other sources, is “a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event that may...
Increase Motivation With These 4 Quick Tips
In a recent post we outlined the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and here we suggest 4 quick tips on how to increase your intrinsic, or self generated motivation. Being self motivated is such a powerful characteristic because with it you can...
How Thinking About Time Differently Will Make You Stress Less
It is rare these days to find someone in corporate and business life who is chilled and stress free. Everything is happening so quickly and it seems the harder we work and the more we cram into a day the further behind on our schedule we fall. I’m trying to find ways...
Four Common Types of Stress
Stress generally occurs when you are trying to think about and process more things than you have the capacity for. It is easy to think that ‘stress is stress’ but there are various types of stress and each should be managed differently. Dr Karl Albrecht is an...