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...
Tina Turner’s number one hit asks: ‘What’s love gotta do with it – what’s love but a second-hand emotion?’ Remember the song? As a matter of fact, love plays an increasingly important role in creating an empowered culture. Especially in these times of rapid change, employees must learn to adapt and acquire new competencies quickly and continually. Building on going learning into team culture requires managers to nurture their people through the process of acquiring confidence in their new capacities. Nurturing is, therefore, not only an expression of kindness, it is a real strategy for team empowerment.
There is growing evidence that women and children are more likely to be abused during the holiday season when people have more free time, there’s an air of festivity, and the drinks are flowing freely. Responsible individuals, through their own personal awareness and...
GO BEYOND RESILIENCE ‘When the going gets tough, the tough gets going’- this is a challenge to management to create a resilient team culture in uncertain times. But that is not some back-up quality, like carrying a spare wheel; it is essential for thriving in...
To hear such a statement would make any manager’s heart sing. And it does for those who create the conditions for their team to be fully engaged in their work. In these times of constant change and economic challenge, managers can easily get caught up in the anxiety...
We live in a switched-on world in which it’s almost unthinkable to be without social media for so much as a day. According to Statista, a company specialising in market and consumer data, around 30 million South Africans were on social networking sites in 2019. What’s more, this number is set to grow to close to 50 million by 2026!
There’s no two ways about it: being bullied isn’t just tough in the moment, it continues to take a toll in other areas of your life. Bullying leaves a trail of destruction in its wake. It shatters your self-esteem and increases your risk of anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance and self-harm. It can even result in physical health problems like high blood pressure, stomach pain and poor appetite.
It’s something that has puzzled researchers from the start of the pandemic – why do some people experience severe illness, and others do not? These differences extend beyond known risk factors – like age, and existing disease. To answer this question, researchers began studying the genetics of people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and were able to identify links between developing the disease and variations in specific parts of their DNA.
The pandemic has highlighted the idea of a disease being front and center in all aspects of our lives. However, for someone living with a chronic condition, this has been their reality long before COVID-19 came along, and the pandemic has simply made things worse. Economic, social and psychological distress is common amongst those living with chronic conditions, such as tuberculosis (TB).
Underlying all human rights is a deep respect for human life. There are those passionate people whose daily lives center around defending and upholding these precious rights so that we can all live in a more caring and just world. Each one of us can take inspiration from this and make choices that demonstrate how our own personal values uphold human rights.
