5 Simple Ways to Build Your Resilience and Reduce Stress
“A healthy mind in a healthy body”
We hear this so often these days. It’s become such a hackneyed phrase that we take the truth of it for granted – until something goes wrong. Maybe an injury or illness hits. Anxiety starts to take hold. You lose sleep. You lose mental clarity. You physically can’t do what you once did. Stress starts to take its toll and you start to suffer muscle injuries, headaches, unexplained illness. Suddenly, you don’t have any spare physical or mental capacity to cope with everyday knock-backs. Stress multiplies. You are, to put it bluntly, in trouble.
Managing stress is key to building resilience, and resilience is a key strength that can help you and your teammates (to quote another corny old phrase), to keep calm and carry on!
Written by Fenella Potter.
4 Things That Nonviolent Communication Improves
What I love about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is it enables me to let go of any judgement or fear of punishment. It enables me to ground myself in a world that is beyond right and wrong, beyond good and bad. It enables a deep understanding of myself and others.
Read more in this blog written by Marwa Farouq.
4 Key Insights From “Rest” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is one of our speakers at the online Happy Workplaces Conference on 15th June. He is a key player in the four-day work week movement and has also written a book called Shorter about that topic.
At the conference, he will be talking about his first book,
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.
“Long hours are an expression of our identity and proof of our seriousness,” Alex suggests. “They don’t necessarily make us more productive; they make us look more productive.”
How to Be a Multiplier and Why it is Important
I recently did a podcast with Liz Wiseman, the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (and Impact Players).
Her book, Multipliers, has had a transformational impact on Happy and on our programmes. All of our ‘people managers’ are Multipliers, who enable their people to do their best work, and we’ve began training others on how to be a Multiplier on our leadership programmes.
6 Ways to Receive and Respond to Feedback Positively
Appraisal time! I don’t know about you, but I used to hate that. I used to presume it would all be negative, fault finding, with a good helping of ‘mansplaining’ thrown in. I now see that attitude was a confidence issue rather than based in fact – apart, maybe, from the mansplaining! But dealing with negative feedback at work – or indeed in any area of life – can be challenging.
In this blog Fenella Potter outlines some of her tips for ways to receive and respond to feedback positively.
How Happy’s Level 7 Senior Leaders Programme Has Ignited Change in Organisations
Our aim with our
Level 7 programme for Senior Leaders
was to not just teach a few leadership tips, but to ignite real change in their organisations. As an apprenticeship qualification, the focus is on implementing ideas and on-the-job learning rather than sitting in long, dull lectures.
Our first Level 7 cohort has recently finished the programme. In this blog, Henry speaks to people who attended the programme and how it changed both their leadership style and their organisation.
6 Tips to Improve Your Self-Confidence
Low confidence prevents us from getting on with stuff, limits risk-taking, career progression or even career choice, and personal growth. (It’s even taken me a bit of time to get on with writing this, as I didn’t feel very confident!)
Find out six tips to improve your self-confidence in this blog by Fenella Potter.
How Asana Can Improve Productivity and Collaboration in Your Team
Asana is a user-friendly work management tool. Using Asana, teams or groups of people can organise their work, keep track of their progress and manage projects easily. In this blog, our IT expert Gill explains why she likes to use Asana for project management, and how Asana can help to improve your team’s productivity and collaboration.
Happy People – Executive Coaching Testimonial
Are you new to leadership role? Have you have been an executive, leader or manager for a long time?
