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Resilience Tip – Have You Tried a ‘Lemonade Mindset’?

By Amanda Furness | 28 April 2025

A look at what a lemonade mindset is, along with some practical examples of how it may benefit us at work as well as in life generally.

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Pleasanteeism – the not so new “ism” in the workplace

By Amanda Furness | 13 January 2025

Although we may now have a word for it, very few people can probably, hand on heart, say they’ve never exhibited pleasanteeism at work. We consider why it is an unhealthy habit and offer some tips to help break its cycle.

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Constructive conversational skills – a Christmas tip

By Amanda Furness | 19 December 2024

A short post highlighting a tip which may be helpful to anyone wishing to polish up their skills or who would like to have a technique in their back pocket to help develop constructive conversational skills ahead of this year’s festivities and beyond.

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The talk’s about AI but let’s not forget EI (Emotional Intelligence)

By Amanda Furness | 01 November 2024

What is Emotional Intelligence (EI), how does it affect the workplace, and what benefits can be gained by organisations who train their managers in EI? Our post also offers 4 practical tips for those seeking to improve EI in their daily lives.

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Tips to help individuals and managers reduce productivity anxiety

By Amanda Furness | 11 September 2024

It can be easy to feel worried or stressed that we aren’t getting through our workload as effectively as we think we should. In this post, we look at some practical actions both individuals and managers can take to help reduce feelings of anxiety relating to our productivity.

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Moving more at work for our mental health

By Amanda Furness | 15 May 2024

In line with the theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we offer some simple suggestions for building movement into our working day.

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Tips for overcoming a culture of false urgency at work

By Amanda Furness | 08 February 2024

For our latest wellbeing at work tip, we look at some signs that a culture of false urgency may exist followed by suggested tips to overcome it for individuals, managers and team leaders.

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Communication at work – be aware of the pitfalls of co-rumination

By Amanda Furness | 01 November 2023

We offer 5 tips for helping to develop healthy interactions at work in order to increase wellbeing and avoid co-rumination.

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Digital wellbeing – how we can help ourselves & how employers can help us

By Amanda Furness | 01 August 2023

Do you ever return from holiday and find your head aches by the end of your first day back at work? In this post, we provide a reminder of how our screen time can impact our emotional and physical health with effects to our productivity and stress levels. With this in mind, we then provide a few suggestions for helping ourselves and others to invest in healthy digital wellbeing.

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Stress management tip – Overcoming limiting beliefs

By Amanda Furness | 25 April 2023

Learning to spot limiting beliefs, challenge them and reframe them can be used to great effect individually, as well as by leaders and managers to create a more harmonious and healthy workplace culture with benefits for performance.

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