Resilience for Managers Articles
Delivering Difficult News
A few weeks ago, I fell of my horse and fractured my spine. A compression fracture of one vertebra, but a fractured spine nonetheless. It wasn’t a dramatic fall; my horse did nothing wrong, no psychological trauma, just the embarrassment of looking like a total novice despite 54 years in the saddle...
Jan 23rd, 2023
Clowning with Angie Wakeman
Imagine turning up with some colleagues who are also friends, with some strangers too, and three hours later you are going to be cavorting across the room, all eyes on you and your clowning partner, twisting comically, distorting your body to the music of the Pink Panther? Oh yes, and you’ll be wearing a red nose and a ridiculous hat. The more ridiculous, the better.
Do You Know How to Empower Your Staff to Thrive?
Empowering people to thrive at work is challenging, not least because of how complex and diverse we all are. And because of the dynamics that result from a myriad of different mental ill-health outcomes when we fail to thrive. Petros offers a range of solutions, interventions and strategies to enhance the psychological wellbeing of your employees.
Feb 10th, 2021
Spotting the Elephant in Your Wellbeing Room
In an average week I was regularly spending up to 20 hours on a train, add to that the commute to and from the station, the very early starts, very late finishes, delays, cancellations, diversions, lack of seats and refreshments, and you can see how this would negatively impact my wellbeing.
May 11th, 2020
Tips for Working from Home
Many of us may be familiar with working from home, but no-one has ever had to work from home during a global health crisis and in such numbers. All of us have had to adapt to new ways of doing our jobs; for some that adaptation has been fairly straight forward, for others it has been more of a challenge...
Working in a Culture of Fear
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”, so asked Sheryl Sandberg, a leader over at Facebook, she is clearly a formidable woman (her Wikipedia entry is awesome). And her quote above posses an equally formidable question, at least from the perspective of a psychologist like me, and that’s, “Afraid of What?”
Detachment: Talk to the Person, Not the Role
After workload and non-work related issues, the third most commonly cited source of work related stress is management style. This rather horrifying statistic was presented at a recent Policy UK workshop on Mental Health in the Work Place, by Rachel Suff, a senior advisor for the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).