Reward yourself

Do you need more motivation to get things done? How good are you at rewarding yourself?

Here's few ideas:

Get Motivated for 2010

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Optimist or pessimist?

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Winston Churchill

Let's hear for the Team!

This team decided they wanted to end their day with something a bit different. So we brought out the drums and the percussion instruments and everyone had fun whilst listening, communicating across the room and making music as a team.

Listen here to the noise (sorry music) they made!

Which hat are you wearing?

With all the doom and gloom around at the moment, you could be forgiven for wearng your black hat. This looks at all the negatives and what else can go wrong. For many based in the US, they seem to be wearing a red hat for anger. Anger with Fat Cats on Wall Street and anger with the politicians. A White hat may keep you aloof and concentrating on the facts and figures, whereas with a Green hat your imagination could run wild. A Blue hat would allow you to summarise everything and tkae a longer term view. Personally I prefer the idea of a Yellow hat. Let's keep things as sunny as possible and find some positives out there!

I used the "Six Thinking Hats" - Edward de Bono

Dealing with Stress

Stress affects different people in different ways, but what is it?

The HSE defines stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them”. Pressure is part of all work and helps keep us motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to stress which undermines performance, is costly to employers and can make people ill. Work-related stress is a major cause of ill health. That means sickness absence, high staff turnover and poor performance in your organisation.

Stress has been around for a long time and isn’t something that has been invented just for us.

So what is it? Back in the days of our early ancestors we developed the ability to react to dangerous situations by either fighting or running away. The way that our bodies react in this situation is to release copious amounts of the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline.

Initially they can have the affect of improving performance and they ensure that we have the best chance of surviving and living to fight another day. However, the excessive release of these hormones can then trigger adverse reactions.

If you would like to find out more about dealing with stress, read our white paper or take our stress survey

Making More Time

5 tips on.....

Making More Time

1. Set aside a “quiet” time when you won’t take calls or interruptions and tell people
2. Ensure meetings have an agenda and a time frame
3. Plan more time than you think you need for important tasks
4. Make good use of the waste bin
5. Only view your emails twice a day