Resilient people are proven to work smarter because they can negotiate the inevitable changes that are the one certainty of life. People who know what teamwork really means can turn good teams into great ones.
Derek Roger is a leading business psychologist who shares his insight with you here in his regular blog, "Psychobabble," which will provoke thought and stimulate interest in the fields of Resilience, Wellbeing and Stress Management.
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Over the years many models have been proposed to try to define and explain stress, but a common feature is a reliance on capacity. So-called life-event scales, for example, assume a capacity for coping which is exceeded when someone is exposed to a sufficient number of events. The approach was refined by adding ‘readjustment scores’ to the events, but to no avail: the life-event approach not only completely fails to explain stress, it also misleads people into thinking that events are somehow inherently stressful. Other models have relied on materials science, using concepts of strain and stress, but since coping is fundamentally influenced by emotion, inert materials are no model at all. Others again have spoken about coping resources being exceeded by demand, another mechanical view which explains very little. read more...
The costs of competition are not only between organisations and companies but also between people and departments within companies. This is how the so-called ‘silo effect’ comes about. Initially, when a company is small there is a sense of cohesion and working for a common goal. In these circumstances there is a natural cooperativeness, but as the company grows there is greater and greater competition between individuals for the scarce resource of promotion and the rise in status and pay that it brings. read more...
To regain trust in organisations it must once have existed. The problem is rarely company-wide; rather, there are teams in all companies where there is trust and others where there isn’t. read more...
During the 1950s and 60s two US Naval surgeons noticed a relationship between the number of things that had happened to people and their tendency to become ill. The relationship is in fact negligible, but based on dubious... read more...
We generally attach relaxation to particular times, such as weekends or the summer holiday. If you only relax on these occasions then the rest of the time (in other words, most of your life) you must be tense. Unfortunately relaxing... read more...
Participants in the Challenge of Change Resilience training sessions spend time at the beginning generating objectives for the day, and a common theme that emerges from the exercise is about sleep. One of the defining features of stress is disturbed ... read more...
Prioritising: knowing what doesn’t need to be done
How often are we told we need to prioritise if we’re to be efficient? Learning to prioritise is important, but we need to understand what’s required. Prioritising is usually thought of as deciding what the most important thing... read more...The Challenge of Change: A New Zealand case study
One of the consequences of a recession is a greater need for evidence when making decisions about how to spend a diminishing budget. It might require very little thought: someone comes up with a machine that produces the widgets you... read more...The New Zealand Herald recently carried an article claiming that “showing your anger rather than repressing emotions is the key to a successful life at home and at work”. The article reports research by George Vaillant at Harvard, who opines... read more...
New Year is the time for resolutions: a new year, a new opportunity, a celebration to mark the occasion. But how long do yours last? For most people, a week would be about average! read more...
‘Well-being’ and ‘wellness’ are increasingly popular phrases in the training world, but what do they actually mean?... read more...
In the most recent World Values Survey, which ranks the countries of the world on happiness, Denmark tops the list. Perhaps not altogether surprising – a small but prosperous country with generous state benefits – and it is... read more...
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