Does December and your summer holiday feel like a long way off? Are you noticing more tiredness? Have the energy levels in your team dropped? It’s that time of year again when the pace of a busy year can start to catch up on us, and ironically, it’s also the [...]
How often do you feel overwhelmed? At work? In life? Would it be most days? Every day? All the time?!? How do you respond when you feel overwhelmed? Do you speed up and try to do everything faster? Do you ask for help or let someone know you are feeling [...]
As the annual leave form gets submitted, and there is an increase in TV ads promoting children’s games, it is easy to get caught up with thoughts and planning about Christmas, our holiday, the finances, and the general feeling that yet another year is over. I realised that in the [...]
Last month, we wrote about the importance of organisations focusing on both engagement and wellbeing to enhance productivity: http://umbrella.org.nz/wellbeing-and-engagement-both-enhance-productivity/ We suggested that: more emphasis needs to be placed on wellbeing as a stronger contributing factor to optimal engagement and performance a more strategic approach is needed, where organisations co-ordinate the [...]