Yesterday afternoon was the start of a journey for many organisations and countless numbers of individuals who share a passion to find the best pathways forward to support the people in the community who are suffering from PTSD… Post...
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A couple of years ago late one afternoon I received a phone call from a stressed senior manager from a large business group. He wanted to talk with me about how his organisation could adopt some destressing tools and...
Presenteeism is when a person comes to work despite being physically or mentally unwell. Presenteeism can be characterised by workers who are physically present in the workplace, but who aren’t working as productively or safely as they should be due...
Sharing some fun stories last week with a friend about travelling in the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the summer of 1972, had me search for some slides of being on the road in north western Russia....
Recently I came out from my dental appointment in Brisbane city and 20 metres down the street on the footpath outside an office building was a group of women and men, standing beside a kerbside garbage bin enjoying their...
On my morning walk yesterday the dew was glistening on the leaves of the trees as the sun was doing its thing to keep me warm on a sub-tropical winters’ morning. The pleasant constant sounds of the bush, the...
I’m often asked the question… why are positive people generally not nearly as stressed as negative people? Positive psychology researcher Michelle Gielan has studied optimism and success for more than a decade, and she has found that those with...
In late May 2019 the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed ‘burnout’ to be an occupational phenomenon coming from job stress that undermines how well people perform at work. In 2015 I published a blog titled Corporate ‘Burn Out’… the...