If you have a good friend for a colleague you are more likely to be engaged and satisfied at work. Part of being happy at work is having at least a few colleagues with whom you get along well with. For some, these constitute true friendships that transcend location, circumstance and peer level. But for many […]
Pride is a very natural emotion – within limits. But maybe in some organisations we don’t get to experience it often enough. There’s an appropriate time to briefly savour a well-deserved triumph. For some it means gloating; some people never know when to stop pushing themselves and their accomplishments in everyone else’s faces. But sooner or […]
Are you happy at work? Do you look forward to Mondays? How do you feel returning from vacation — refreshed and ready to get back into work, or disappointed you had to come back. It’s important that work and our workplace gives us contentment. But what are the optimum conditions and indicators of genuine contentment […]
We sometimes don’t know how stuck we are, until we are finally out of an often self-imposed trough. Passing phase A rut may simply be a lower level of satisfaction than your potential ‘happiness’ but not enough to derail you. It might just be a comfy place that doesn’t give you great joy, but feels […]
A dream job is one that allows you to do something you truly enjoy doing, allows you to achieve a goal or ambition, and is a role in which you’re capable and confident. We think about a dream job, or dream situation that enables us to be financially independent with enough to provide for our […]
We all go to work at least five times a week. We spend more time working than we do with our families, and most of the stresses we experience come from work. But can you answer a really important question: What are you working for? On the surface the answer is clear: we work for […]
Are you always wishing for the weekend or willing your next holiday to come round quickly? Or going to bed feeling stressed? Or generally feeling dissatisfied? Work and happiness are far too often considered to be mutually exclusive notions. What people don’t realise is that happiness is a habit. Work is a huge part of […]
It can be really tough being a manager, especially if it is your first time. Typically, the first time someone becomes a manager they meet the task with unbridled enthusiasm, but then once they discover that the skills that got them the promotion are different to the skills required to thrive in the role the […]
It really worries me when I see how many people are reporting stress, burnout and work-related depression and anxiety problems in their lives. Work is an important part of life, and we all want to be productive and successful, but when we start to see serious mental and physical health ramifications it is time to […]
