MORE than 45 million working days have been lost in the UK due to stress, anxiety and depression in the past three years. Last year alone a record 17 million working days were lost, costing the economy at least £2.4 billion, according to the UK Statistics Authority. There has also been a 495% increase in [...]
In my previous blog on “10 lessons we can learn from sport”, Point 4 was about celebration and reward. Even if you are a solo business, how often and how well do you celebrate the good things that happen? All too often this side of review and evaluation gets missed. We focus on what’s not [...]
The past 12 months has been a fascinating year for sport. Amongst it, the All Blacks winning the Rugby World Cup, Andy Murray winning Wimbledon, England struggling in the Football World Cup and now the amazing performance of Team GB in the Olympics. In my work as a coach and leadership specialist, I have become [...]
As you made your decision on the recent Brexit vote, you may well have been impacted by something called a “Confirmation Bias”. This is where we tend to only listen to information that confirms our preconceptions. This is one of a myriad of cognitive biases that can operate almost automatically, to bias your thinking and [...]
Sometimes we all have a week of ups and downs. The week following Brexit may have been one of those for you and it certainly was for me! An unbelievable week Friday I woke up to the news we were leaving the EU and then headed off to Amsterdam for a friend’s 50th Birthday weekend. [...]
