How to aim for progress not perfection
In a 2019 study of around 41,000 young people, researchers found that over the last 25 years, people across the US, Canada and the UK have become more perfectionistic in terms of: others having higher expectations of us, us having higher expectations of others, as well as us having higher expectations of ourselves. The rise
Getting the best from your strengths in a crisis
Once upon a time, the strengths approach wasn’t so well-known as it is today and one of the pushbacks to the approach I used to hear fairly often was about strengths being a great idea for the good times, but actually how helpful are your strengths in bad times, when you’re under pressure, in a
Building Out Your Support Network – Why Bother And How To
Your social network can have a significant effect on your health – studies have shown that those with stronger social networks enjoy multiple physiological, psychological and long-term health benefits than those who lack social support. This is particularly important at times of pressure and stress, when a sense of isolation can lead to higher experienced
It’s all fake news – learning to unbias what you see and hear
Why is it that the ‘news’ is pretty much always negative? We live in a world wired towards negativity bias (I podcast on this in Season 1, episode 2). So, as humans, we react quickly to potential threats, that is we’re programmed to hear about those things first; in addition, we kind of like to
Building resilience – 4 things you and your team need to do
What does resilience mean? If you look for resilience in the dictionary, you might see such entries as “the ability to be happy and successful again after something difficult or bad has happened”, and “the ability of a substance to return to its usual shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed”. So obviously the first
The future of leadership in the new normal – six guiding principles
‘New normal’ seems to be the phrase of the moment (at least it was last month). But in truth, nothing ever really gets a chance to ‘normalise’ these days, so pretty soon, ‘new normal’ will be ‘old world’ and the next wave of new will be on us. So how can leaders – how can
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