Self-compassion, not self-indulgence – Looking after number one

My intention this month was to write about compassion. Lord knows we could all do with some of that right now. But then a post on LinkedIn caused me to rethink. It bemoaned the number of articles exhorting us to ...

By |2020-11-06T12:08:04+00:00April 30th, 2020|Covid-related, Emotions & Thinking|0 Comments

Delegation: The art of self-management?

Last month, I discussed the dimensions of delegation, which prompted one reader to tell me that, for him, the hardest part of delegating is managing his own responses - dealing with frustration and reining in his inner control freak, for ...

By |2020-09-04T09:41:38+00:00September 28th, 2018|Developing Career Potential, Leadership|3 Comments

Three reasons why stress is a meaningless concept

Is your job stressful? Do you feel stressed right now? Or are some of your colleagues going through a stressful time? If so, you and your organisation would be fairly typical of the modern workplace. So given that I'm a ...

By |2020-09-04T10:11:18+00:00February 28th, 2018|Emotions & Thinking, Opinion Pieces|4 Comments

Part 4: Caution emotion at work – How to handle personal and colleague envy

This is the final article in my series on emotion at work and this time I'm tackling the one that rarely gets talked about - envy, and its frequent companion, resentment. Whereas feeling anxious or angry is seen as fairly ...

By |2020-09-04T10:22:25+00:00January 25th, 2018|Emotions & Thinking, Teamwork|4 Comments

Part 3: Caution emotion at work – How to handle someone else’s anger at work

This is the third in a series on emotion at work. Having looked last time at how to handle your own anger at work, this month I'm focusing on dealing with someone else's anger. Angry people can be intimidating, so ...

By |2020-09-04T10:24:29+00:00December 19th, 2017|Emotions & Thinking, Teamwork|1 Comment

Part 2: Caution emotion at work – How to handle your anger at work

This is the second in a short series on emotion at work. Last month I tackled anxiety, this month I'm moving on to anger. I realised while writing this that there's enough to say about handling your own anger at ...

By |2020-09-04T10:24:44+00:00November 29th, 2017|Emotions & Thinking, Teamwork|4 Comments

Part 1: Caution emotion at work – Managing and supporting personal anxiety

Wouldn't it be great if work was a place of calm and rationality all the time? Somewhere where you didn't have to deal with messy feelings - yours or anyone else's. In the not too distant future, when we've mostly ...

By |2020-09-04T10:26:07+00:00October 31st, 2017|Emotions & Thinking, Teamwork|0 Comments
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