work vs life balance

Back to school

Sleeping in, beach days, backyard cricket, family games’ nights and the smell of sausages on the barbecue - the quintessential Kiwi summer. These long, hot days, coupled with freedom from routine, makes for parents who are more relaxed and kids who are more agreeable. If only we lived in a [...]

2020-02-24T13:39:45+13:00January 30th, 2019|

What’s so hard about recovery

The science on recovery is simple: Scientific research has consistently shown that we perform better at work, experience less fatigue and maintain stronger wellbeing when we balance stressful effort with active recovery (when we purposefully recharge our mental and physical batteries). Oscillating between periods of challenge and periods of [...]

2020-02-24T14:29:48+13:00September 28th, 2018|

Let’s integrate wellbeing and engagement

Last month, we wrote about the importance of organisations focusing on both engagement and wellbeing to enhance productivity: https://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 [...]

2020-02-24T14:30:22+13:00October 3rd, 2017|