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.
Psychobabble - Derek's Blog - Archive
NZi Business: Relieving stress during economic downturns
Interviewed by Corin Dann on TVNZ’s NZi Business programme on Monday, I was asked for my views about how business people can cope with the downturn in the New Zealand economy. Putting recessions into context, the economy is by... read more...Flexible Working, Inflexible Attitudes
A page in the Business section of recent edition of the Christchurch Press made interesting reading. The lead article was a report on the implications of the new Flexible Work Arrangements Act, which will allow those employees who care... read more...Management: People, not procedures
The Challenge of Change offers a unique perspective on resilience training: that resilience is not about keeping your head above water for longer, which would still mean paddling furiously to keep afloat. Instead, it says that there is no... read more...What is a team? The usual response runs along the lines of a group of people who work together for a common goal, but teams are often far more nebulous and subtle than this simple definition would suggest... read more...
Happiness of New Zealand Survey - Lies, damn lies and statistics?
In a quote variously attributed to Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli, lies are described as lies, damn lies and statistics. In fact, statistics are just numerical ways of expressing things and have no particular valence, but they can certainly... read more...To me, the phrase ‘work-life balance’ means that at work you don’t have a life. Unfortunately this is a widely-held view - work is something you have to do to earn money, but while you’re there you have to... read more...
How often do we hear someone say they’re stressed because they’re moving house or getting a new job? They must be stressed, because moving house is 'way up there on the list'. The list will be one of the... read more...
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