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Building resilient teams – where do we start? Part 1 of 3

“Resilience is built through the everyday, every minute habits and exercises that punctuate our daily lives” – Linda Grafton, Professor, London Business School Given much of our daily lives is spent at work, how do organisations best provide targeted training, appropriate nudges and clear direction to strengthen resilience in teams? Importantly, [...]

2015-11-04T22:16:22+13:00November 4th, 2015|

New research we like

We are often asked for help to improve procrastination. An excellent study from the University of Colorado recently examined some of the drivers of putting things off. To do this the researchers compared similarities in executive function performance, procrastination proneness and goal failures between identical and non-identical twins. In this [...]

2017-03-16T13:31:15+13:00October 12th, 2015|

Make resilience drive business as usual

One of the joys of our work is witnessing real time examples of how some organisations are supporting their employees’ personal resilience, as well as introducing the frameworks that make this possible on an ongoing basis. Below are two recent examples of teams who are making resilience business as usual, [...]

2017-03-20T13:00:34+13:00October 12th, 2015|

Practicing mindfulness at work

Some common barriers to productivity at work and practical mindfulness practices that can help: 1. Lack of concentration and focus Practice paying attention to a single object on your desk, notice every detail of it, the colour, the texture etc and describe them to yourself. This will help train your [...]

2017-03-16T13:34:45+13:00August 31st, 2015|