It’s officially Autumn. After a roller coaster of a year and a month of rest and rejuvenation in August, myself and the team at Rising Vibe are back at work, navigating the ‘new normal’ and challenging our clients to place wellbeing at the heart of their culture. There’s always a distinct gear change at…
We recently attended the MAD World summit – dedicated to making a difference to mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. We met some amazing, inspirational people, hell bent on improving our nation’s workspaces. Dr Shaun Davis was no exception. The Global Director of Safety, Health, Wellbeing & Sustainability at Royal Mail oversaw the complete…
You don’t often see or hear that. ‘Emotion’ and ‘business’ in the same sentence. Traditionally, we don’t talk about our feelings and emotions at work. We leave them at home and we just get on with it. All this emotional chat is incense burning, sandal wearing pink and fluffy BS and has no place in…
This Summer I decided to sponsor a cricket team, partly because my Brother plays for them but mostly because, as the classic reggae song states, I don’t like cricket, I love it! I come from a family of cricket fans. Watching the cricket immediately makes me feel better. Sitting outside on a warm summers day…
When my daughter Martha was little, like most pre-school kids, she was terrible at sharing. The tantrums at play dates were becoming a problem and I knew it was serious when we weren’t getting invited out as much as we used to. I needed my Mum mates. So for my sanity at least, things had…
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family…or your work colleagues. Thrown together through luck and circumstance, we spend at least half of our lives working alongside people, we otherwise might not have met. Every workplace is a rich tapestry of individuals with different ideas, views and morals. So, like every dysfunctional…
We regularly work with teams to support their development, as well as deliver learning around the subject of leadership. You will find a multitude of information around how to motivate and engage as a leader, and in our experience focusing on these 10 areas will do this pretty damn well! 1. Help them get what…
‘Not getting along with people’ is consistently cited as a reason for work-related stress, and I would bet that at least 50% of every team, at one point in time, are working with at least one person that they find it difficult to be around. This could a line manager, a peer, a direct report,…
When coaching is mentioned people often think of ‘life coaching’, or scheduled one to one sessions in a private environment with action plans and follow up. This is the case for many coaching interventions, however we can address a variety of situations and interactions with a ‘coaching approach’. A conversation using a coaching approach involves…
1. Focus only on Roles, Responsibilities and Objectives Give no consideration to what else your team may need to stay motivated and feel supported. One sure way to generate disengagement and under-performance. 2. Don’t Manage Under-performance This is a brilliant way to negatively impact those in the team that are performing well. 3. Don’t Trust…
