Week 8 - The Burn Book – Building Your Resilience Welcome to Week 8!   This exercise was brought to our team by our Client Development Manager, Zoe. If, like Zoe, you’ve seen the teenage Comedy film, Mean Girls 100 times, then you’ll...

Week 9 – Healthy Eating for High Performance   Mental health is more than just the way we think. It’s also what we eat, how we move, how we sleep, how we socialise and how we live.  What may seem simple but...

Week 10 – Raising your Happiness Levels for High Performance   Scientists once thought happiness was almost completely hereditary (dictated by a genetically determined standpoint). But thankfully, they've since discovered that in fact we have far more control over our emotional well-being...

Week 11 – Setting Personal Boundaries   “Setting boundaries and sticking to them is a fundamental part of human existence. How do you feel when someone you don't know (or have only just met) stands too close to you, talking right into...

    Retention, motivation, innovation, productivity, wellbeing and the success of a business are all factors that are impacted by how happy a business’s employees are. They all decline when employees are disengaged and unhappy, just as they all improve when employees...

  Growing a business successfully means being able to keep your best employees. In the modern marketplace there isn’t an expectation that they will stay for their whole career, but it is realistic to aim for 3-4 years at least as...

  Why your team aren’t engaged   This is the first important issue to understand and address. There can be many reasons for a lack of engagement, so consider the below before writing someone off as a bit of a slacker. As...

  Your top performers are the people that drive your business success. They show up for work, put in the effort and get the results. Sometimes they seek recognition and sometimes knowing they’ve done their job well is reward enough. But...

  Performance reviews, although an important part of maintaining an optimum functioning business, are stressful, for both managers and employees. It’s unpleasant being under the spotlight, not knowing if you’ve done enough. And for managers, having to tell team members that...

    It is one thing building up a high performing team, it’s quite another to retain them. Perhaps because in trying to retain them there is the perception that everything must stay the same. However, change happens whether you like it...