Life in the C-Suite can mean that your workplace extends across national borders. The fact that travelling for business can take away from your personal life is an issue in itself but more pertinent is the effect that jet lag can have on your efficiency and – importantly – your health. Can you remember the […]
READ MOREThe Executive’s Heavy Burden
Australia has a weight problem. The statistics make for grim reading: Almost 2 in 3 adults were overweight or obese in 2014-2015. This number is only expected to increase in the years ahead. Typically, weight problems correlate with wealth and education; people without access to money and knowledge find it more difficult to, not only […]
READ MOREAccommodating the Arrival of Generation Z
Generation Z will bring new skills, outlooks and ideas into Australian workplaces. However, their arrival will also necessitate a revolution in how executives deal with the mental health issues of their team members. Executives deserve a lot of credit for the work they have already done in transforming the approach to mental health in corporate […]
READ MOREThis is an Intervention: A Call for Self Evaluation
Executives are in a strange position compared to the rest of Australia when it comes to mental health. People think, by virtue of affluence, that you are, and can only be, happy. This is not true. Vigilance is the key to mental wellbeing. . The corporate world moves at a rapid pace. There is rarely […]
READ MOREThe Unfortunate, Inevitable ‘But’: Dispelling the Myth that Busier is Better
It is universally accepted that a healthy work-life balance is absolutely pivotal to general wellbeing. Despite this consensus among experts and corporate leaders alike, an unfortunate myth still prevails: to be busier is to be better. Here, we demonstrate just how harmful an imbalance can be. Of course, mastering the balance between personal and corporate […]
READ MOREC-saw, the ups and downs of work-life balance at the C-level with observations of an entertainer’s approach!
For some people, work-life balance is simple, for others it’s more complicated, and experience shows that most people at the C-level tend to fall into the latter category. In this article, we’ll look at some of the reasons why and overview potential solutions. Work-life balance, the term is almost a cliché. Tossed around by employers, […]
READ MOREIt’s Time To Start Talking About Mental Health In The Workplace
The silence around mental health in the workplace would indicate to many that all is well. However, when studies have shown that 45% of Australians currently aged between 16 to 85 will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, and a third of these cases will be related to pressures experienced at work, it’s […]
READ MOREThe Change Effect. Is it in you or around you – and what can it do to your career?
There are events in life, ‘seminal’ is a popular descriptor, that have the capacity to significantly alter what comes after them. The Change Effect is a way of looking at these events, and how they affect the people and processes around them. Change is a constant in our working and living environments. However, at an […]
READ MOREEnd of Fatigued You
Simon, one of my clients, contacted me recently. He was feeling the pressure – a classic case of communications fatigue. He told me how he had 4 email addresses, 2 phones, Whatsapp, Slack, Facetime, SMS, a cloud based exchange account and a Google account to manage document libraries and shared online docs and spreadsheets, plus a […]
READ MORENew Year’s Blues – 5-steps to Coping with Post-resolution Realisation
New Year’s resolutions can be positive or negative, and if you’re in the increasingly blue haze of people who have made resolutions they know they are not going to keep, or if you’re ruing the opportunity to make any at all – don’t despair, it’s not too late to get things back on track. Symbolism […]
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