Stress Management and Acceptance
Here’s a guest blog by Stephanie Goddard on stress management and acceptance. ……….. You’re stressed. I know without you even saying it. How? Because that is everyone’s answer to, “How …
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Top Gun Confidence Training
Here’s a guest post on confidence training from my friend and fellow Brighton trainer Viv Craske: ……. “What would Tom Cruise do?” Think you’re good at business? Confidence trainer Viv …
How to Send an Employee Crazy
I’ve recently been redesigning some materials for the business stress management training courses I lead and have been using the UK HSE “management standards” and the CIPD’s framework for line …
Emotional Intelligence Facts
Here are some facts I pulled out for a group I was doing emotional intelligence training with: Emotional Intelligence (EI) is 3 times more likely to predict career success than …
Using Improvisation in Organisations
‘making it up as you go along’ can be good for business Julia E. Knight & Harry Puckering Introduction Julia E. Knight is a Work & Organisational Psychologist and Harry …
The Mood of Doom – UK Public-Sector Culture?
Why is it that many trainers and coaches I know dislike working in the public sector? I don’t think it’s the individuals that work there (it is full of perfectly …
Call-Centre Stress Management
An article I wrote for Charities Management magazine: ………………… – Being Human at Work Contact/ call-centres have a reputation as ghastly places to work full of stress and misery. They …
Training and Trauma
Recently someone close to me had an unpleasant experience on a training course her workplace had sent her on. She was put in an overwhelming situation involving actors modeling aggression …
Managing Stress
Managing Stress by understanding our innate knowledge patterns and emotional needs Caveman instincts As is well recognised, the fight/flight response or stress response is an emotional and physical way of …