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Mental Health UK’s Burnout report for 2025 found that an overwhelming 91% of UK adults experienced high or extreme stress at some point during the past year.  With 34% experiencing stress ‘always’ or ‘often’, the same score as 2024’s report.  1 in 5 (20%) of workers have burnout-related absenteeism. Dr Hannah Nearney, a psychiatrist and […]

An amazing free leadership programme starts in September and runs worldwide. Every year, I tell anyone who will listen about this thought-provoking leadership programme that happens every year. I attended in person and online in 2016, and I still use the material and lessons learnt today. It is a free, 8-week programme on the foundations of […]

A study using fMRI found that we had between 6000-6600 thoughts in a day, that’s about 6.5 thoughts in a minute. What is harder to quantify in minutes is the difference between when we are feeling stressed and relaxed as to the level of thoughts then. What we do know from research, and we can all relate […]

We don’t often think of creativity at work, not unless you badge it as innovation or out of the box thinking.  Yet creativity is something we do without realising when we try something new, think of a new idea, look at a problem from a different angle.  Many of us believe we don’t have a […]

We all prefer a carrot over a stick, yet how often as parents, managers, or leaders do we default to some tried and tested sharp-pointed phrases of discouragement?  Invariably, our words of disappointment or dissatisfaction come out before we realise – an old habit – that if not checked will continue. We know how words […]