Stress and Anxiety Under the Volcano
The recent shutdown was a small version of a world crisis, for which we need to be prepared. Such rapid corporate change would require the immediate application of many forms of stress management training
Stress Management Strategies: Time to smell the roses
Finding time to smell the roses – a code for good time management, stress management strategies and sensible philosophy. We often need reminding of it by people who have known great tragedy, and overcome it.
Stress Reduction: Chill out to remember more!
The workings of memory have been an obscure subject till now. But recent research demonstrates that you memorise better and longer when you’re feeling relaxed at the moment of input.
Stress Reduction: The Value of Enforced Leisure
24/7 work-attendance is assumed to be an unfortunate necessity in competitive business. New evidence shows that it induces a state of ‘bad intensity’ that discourages creative insight.
Cutting Through Email Overload
Email overload can dominate your working day, unless you actively prevent it. Management should restrict email to its correct purpose, which is pure information, and not persuasion or debate.
Sleep – the Hidden Performance Factor
Today’s work-culture makes it harder to enjoy that full night’s sleep we need. Sleep deprivation especially affects the creative thinking and decision-making that increasingly makes up our day’s work.
Vision and Hope in Dubai
It’s easy to get blasé about the world’s greatest engineering marvels when you’ve been hearing about them non-stop for months. But you should never lose your sense of wonder about them.
Get linked in to your business
The huge possibilities thrown up by social business networking such as LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube will revolutionise the way we hunt new business, new staff and new contacts, and generally present our profile to the world
Stress of the Vanishing Lunch-break
The disappearance of the ritual lunch-break is partly a social statement about new flexible workstyle, and partly a strong temptation to stay at your desk and earn.
Dubai – A World Centre of Excellence
Sensational reports of economic breakdown in Dubai ignore the global nature of the current economic crisis. The UAE retains a brilliant mix of creative and technological strength, says stress-guru Carole Spiers.