Month: June 2010

How to Send an Employee Crazy

I’ve recently been redesigning some materials for the business stress management training courses I lead and have been using the UK HSE “management standards” and the CIPD’s framework for line …

Emotional Intelligence Facts

Here are some facts I pulled out for a group I was doing emotional intelligence training with: Emotional Intelligence (EI) is 3 times more likely to predict career success than …

Using Improvisation in Organisations

‘making it up as you go along’ can be good for business Julia E. Knight & Harry Puckering Introduction Julia E. Knight is a Work & Organisational Psychologist and Harry …

GTD video

Fellow Brighton time management and productivity specialists Think Productive have a nice GTD video up. David Allen’s Getting Things done is the main time management system Think Productive and Integration …

Call-Centre Stress Management

An article I wrote for Charities Management magazine: ………………… – Being Human at Work Contact/ call-centres have a reputation as ghastly places to work full of stress and misery. They …

Training and Trauma

Recently someone close to me had an unpleasant experience on a training course her workplace had sent her on. She was put in an overwhelming situation involving actors modeling aggression …

Managing Stress

Managing Stress by understanding our innate knowledge patterns and emotional needs Caveman instincts As is well recognised, the fight/flight response or stress response is an emotional and physical way of …

Stress and Homeopathy

This is a press release from The Society of Homeopaths. Not sure if I believe in Homeopathy myself but it’s an interesting article. ……. Don’t let the credit crunch affect …