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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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5 tips to help look after our mental health this winter

By Amanda Furness | 05 December 2022

During the winter months, decreased exposure to sunlight can leave us with low mood, poor motivation and less energy. We suggest 5 practical tips to help look after our mental health this winter.

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Being comfortable with silence – a skill worth developing?

By Amanda Furness | 16 September 2022

Many of our tips include the benefits of communication and expressing our feelings. In this article, we think about the value being comfortable with silence can play in our lives.

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Micro-breaks can re-set our brains, improving both productivity and wellbeing

By Amanda Furness | 23 June 2022

A look at micro-breaks; what they are, what part they can play in our productivity, with some tips to help build them into our working day.

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