I’d be extremely surprised if your employment contract requires you to willingly submit to humiliation, bullying or vilification from your boss. In many countries this behaviour is illegal. Managers who use bully tactics reflect poorly on themselves and rarely achieve the motivational outcomes they expect  these tactics to produce. Good leadership shows respect and receives [...]

Most of us have experienced the anxiety and irritation of looking in the wardrobe and finding nothing that’s clean, ironed, fits or is otherwise acceptable to wear. When this happens at the start of a working day it’s even more stressful and can impact on the rest of the day. To take stress out of [...]

Social stress is visible on a global scale in news reports of wars and conflicts. We see its consequences in the eyes of refugees, the tears of children, rioting,  injustice, disease and death. All of us experience social stress to some degree or another. Sometimes the manifestations can be very subtle like using people for [...]

Use this powerful technique to reduce the stress that often accompanies tasks we postpone or consider unpleasant. Imagine that you have a mountain of filing to process, a tax return to complete, a difficult interview, a room to paint or some other onerous duty to perform. If you focus on the negative emotions associated with [...]

Thorough preparation and pre-visualisation are important factors in overcoming exam stress. As a mature age student I would attempt to study 3 hours every evening. I also needed to allocate time on the weekend but did not want to study on both Saturday and Sunday. I therefore decided to do a solid 12 hours on [...]