Gone are the days when resting on the job was considered lazy and unproductive. Recent Psychological and scientific studies say sleep health leads to greater employee innovation, productivity, job satisfaction and quality of life.
Well done Unilever for launching a Wellbeing Zone at your corporate offices – a space for mindfulness, meditation, rest, and recovery. Read more in the article below.
In the UK we need to be competitive but we also need to improve our productivity. To achieve both we need to take a fresh approach to our leadership style.
At a Big Data conference given by @cloudera: Bernard Marr, bestselling author and leading business and data expert, stated how the pace of business processes automation is accelerating. For example; sports commentaries originally written by journalists are now written by a computer by analysing the photos of match play and the players’ performance and strategies – truly amazing.
2017 has brought in lots of change for all of us. On the world stage political leaders are changing, Brexit is being progressed, even Mother Earth is feeling change. There is much debate on whether there is climate change in process but it is a fact that glaciers and the artic ice is melting. So something is changing.
20th century man was adamant that each person is an island and we live our lives in separateness. In the 21st century we have started to challenge this idea.
Think what it is like to be in a room with a person who is angry or disapproving of you. It is an uncomfortable place. You can feel their anger without them even saying a word. Emotions, especially strong ones, create an aura of energy around the person which you can feel and some people can see. If we can create and project energy with our minds that others can feel and read, we are not discreet and separate.
Everyone has some good traits in them. Speak of these good elements and it will amplify them. When praised for their good traits, individuals will be encouraged to focus on them. The not so nice elements will then be diminished and will fall away. In this way you help the individual, yourself and the community you live in.
Dedicated to my mother and the wonderful two little boys in our family who represent the next generation arriving.
Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming. Challenges are opportunities to learn life lessons. They are not meant to be so hard that they break you, but they are meant to be ‘challenging’. This is sometimes needed to get you to listen.
When you feel overwhelmed; step back, take a few deep breadths and re-assess the situation you find yourself in. Listening to the calm, rationale voice within you. It can be enlightening. You will be surprised at how objective and fair that voice is. However it can take some diligence to hear the voice over your anger, frustration or fear.
