Go with the flow?
Sounds a bit too hippy and laid back for modern leadership? According to positive psychologists, achieving a state of flow is the real key to effectiveness, creativity and sheer joy in your work. In flow, you have total concentration, time flies and you know you are...
Women’s Leadership: 3 tips for being more resilient by Averil Leimon
In this video, Averil focuses on Resilience. She provides 3 tips that will enable women to enhance their resilience and overcome challenges as they progress in their careers.
Leadership Minute: Courageous Conversations by François Moscovici
In this Leadership Minute, François Moscovici focuses on courageous conversations. This is particularly important for leaders to have them with their team members. Having the courage to handle them is a starting point but there is more to it.
The Happiness Formula
A bit of science: Happiness = S+C+V. S is your set range: the way you were born. Some of us are born a bit more grumpy, some a bit more cheerful. It maybe counts for 50% of your long term happiness. C is for circumstances, i.e. climate, wealth, health, marital status,...
Happiness & long life: wishful thinking or reality?
Wanting to improve your happiness may seem self-indulgent. Actually it’s a life saver. Studies show that happiness has a strong impact on how long you live, it could be 8 years more, and protects you against illness. This is comparable to the benefits of not smoking....
Compassionate Leaders
‘There is always pain in the room’ (Frost 2003) This week alone I have heard that someone’s frail elderly Mother is going through surgery, a city broker is dealing with a heart problem and has more tests to endure, a banker is despairing about yet more indecision...
100 Lessons on Happiness in 100 words or less
How happy would you say you were yesterday? How happy do you want to be tomorrow? How can you work to be happier in life and work? Good positive emotions like happiness are important because they increase our chances of being more successful and healthy. Happiness!...
Ways to effectively network and influence by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives you a few tips to be more influential and network more effectively. As explained in the video below, these are critical to women’s career success.