With the end of the year fast approaching and the drive to get everything done before the holidays, you may be noticing that your team is starting to run out of puff. Instead of a slow grind over the next few weeks, how can we be proactive and plan [...]
Connected, healthy relationships are vital for our wellbeing, and for many of us, our relationships are the foundation of purpose and meaning in our lives. During a recent yin yoga class our wise teacher spoke about bringing “sips of kindness and compassion” to our relationship with ourselves, in order [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]