Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Report-writing – the classic stressor duty
We may hate report writing but once it is out there, it is out there. And your reputation goes with it.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Grief Therapy
Do you sometimes tailgate someone else when driving your car? Not a very clever idea and it can cause a serious accident.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … That elusive vacancy
Are there some rules that go with networking. The answer is ‘yes’ and they can be learnt.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … The Expat trap
It is not always easy to be an ex-pat – change of lifestyle, working and getting to know the culture.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … The stress of driving
Some people change personality when they get behind the wheel. Do you?
Organisational Change
Any prospect of organisational change – a merger, a takeover, a relocation – tends to provoke fear and resentment out of proportion to the actual disruption that eventually happens
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Underload
We always identify stress with overload – dangerous pressure building-up through those bulging in-trays and late nights. But too little pressure at work may be just as dangerous as too much. Underload (or under-demand) sets up constant stress through monotony, inertia and boredom for which we were simply not designed.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Burnout
Today’s workplace is clearly asking for burnout, the biggest factor being the atmosphere of non-stop emergency, based on the idea that any relaxation will play straight into the hands of the competition.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Stress Management: Personal Resilience through fitness
Stress management is basically one long battle, where mental resilience needs to be supported by physical resilience. Yet one of the most serious pressures is the extreme difficulty of arranging regular exercise, when your workload is made up of one panic after another.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Effective Communication Skills: Active Listening
Experienced negotiators often make use of a subtle form of questioning that does not make people feel they are being questioned at all – Active Listening. This is the technique of guiding a conversation by making minimal gestures and utterances that suggest empathy, while not actually indicating agreement. Attention is diverted away from the questioner […]