Resilience training has become a far more common feature of workplace learning in recent years. What was once seen as something specialist is now being built into everyday development programmes. In fact, according to Corndel, around half of UK employers now offer some form of resilience training as part of…
There was a time, not so long ago, when being brilliant with numbers was all you needed. Back in 1980, if you were strong on the technical side but not exactly a people person, the job market rewarded you handsomely. You could sit quietly at your desk, crunch data, and…
Like clockwork, the new year begins and most of us find ourselves scribbling down a list of goals for the year ahead. Lose weight. Read more books. Learn a language. Run a marathon. And sure enough, by February we’re feeling like we’ve already failed….. This ritual is so ingrained that it almost…
Traditionally the second week back at work in January is the most miserable week of the year and everything is a bit of a struggle – but genuine fulfilment is about doing things that make us happy and the secret to happiness is a lot more simple. So forget the…
It’s December, and somewhere right now a woman is writing her mother-in-law’s Christmas card. She’s also buying gifts for her husband’s siblings, wrapping presents for people she sees once a year, and mentally running through a checklist that grows longer by the day. Her partner, meanwhile, is blissfully unaware of…
For years, we have all heard the drum about bad diets and obesity, and when weight-loss drugs hit the mainstream market, there was a lot of positivity about them. Ozempic and Wegovy took to the celebrity world like never before, and soon, even people you know began to try them…
