You are invited to join a free webinar on how to boost your immune system against the Covid-19 pandemic. Don’t forget your greatest asset in the fight against the coronavirus is the body’s natural disease fighting defense – your amazing immune system. For...
The scars of apartheid and the on-going revelations of state and corporate corruption demand extraordinary measures to restore trust. The World Economic Forum (2016) showed South Africa ranked 49th in global competitiveness. This goes hand in hand with productivity...
Let’s be clear, there’s no magic wand to create a perfect working environment – but employee wellbeing remains an ideal well worth striving for. With a better understanding of the inner mental and emotional experience of employees, managers can acquire skills to...
When we begin to see emotions as ‘energy seeking purpose’ we can understand the simple truism that employees will move towards that which they find appealing, and away from that which is not. The required skill is to be able to identify the emotional drivers. In the...
A Gallup survey shows 45% of SA employees actively disengaged – we need to release that captured energy and enterprise into productive engagement. There is an elephant in the room that we need to recognise – it’s called active disengagement. This growing global...
Start your day by scrolling through your Newsfeed and you’ll probably have at least 10 reasons to roll over and hide under the covers. There’s lots of suffering and struggle in the world, not to mention your personal challenges. Although you can reduce your exposure to news of suffering (actually don’t start your day with your newsfeed), suffering is still inevitable.
It’s safe to say we’ve all been there, you are tired, so you skip making dinner and eat an unhealthy snack instead. You have a night out with friends and skip the gym the next morning. When work piles up, the first thing that suffers is sleep. The problem is, the more often this happens, the more your health is affected.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T! Yes, it’s a well-known song and a word often used when it comes to teaching children how to interact with adults, but there is more to it than just being a catchy tune. Respect is effectively the glue that holds relationships together. It can be defined as “esteem for, or a sense of the worth, or excellence of a person, a personal quality, or ability”.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’ A cliché? Yes, but there may just be a dot of truth to it. Everyone knows that play is good for kids. It promotes physical and mental development and provides an opportunity for healthy social interaction. But as kids get older, time for free play gets less, until adulthood, when it just about disappears altogether.
We usually think of addiction as something extreme; associated with drugs, alcohol or substances, but you can become addicted to many different things. For many years experts believed that only alcohol and certain drugs could lead to addiction.
