Tag: Wellbeing
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Building Your Team’s Resilience
When you’re knocked off a horse, you’re often encouraged to get back up. In the office, if you lose a job or a client, or you fail in any other way, you’re told to keep going. Try again, and never give up. This is the definition of resilience: overcoming and adapting, despite stressful — even traumatic…
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Building Resilience
Life isn’t always a smooth ride. Regardless of circumstance, everybody comes up against problems at some point. Time management training can help if you’re feeling overwhelmed by too much at once, but what if things have just gone wrong, and it’s something beyond your control? Perhaps you’ve been passed over for promotion, or lost your…
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10 Reasons Why a Wellness Program Is Good for Your Employees
Employee well-being is monumental to the success of any business. Good workplace health helps employees to stay focused and productive throughout each workday. One of the best ways to improve workplace health is through wellness programs. Wellness programs consist of a wide variety of company incentives, corporate events and workshops to support employees’ physical, emotional…
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Creating a Productivity Ninja Culture in the Workplace
The problem is that everyone is ‘busy’. Emails, meetings, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid response, etc. etc. Often, employees are stretched across so many tech platforms and projects – and operating in an air of permanent change and unclarity – that they feel they are getting nowhere. That’s exactly what we’re tackling with our Time Management Training…
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Getting Back on Track After a Bad Month
This month at Think Productive we’ve been having open conversations about being Human, not Superhero, which is one of the theories in our Time Management Training workshops. We all have bad days, bad weeks, even bad months. Sometimes it can feel like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Whether that’s in your personal…
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Prioritize Taking Care of Yourself
You’re “busy” — that’s a given. Between the extra-long work hours, to the time spent keeping your household afloat, you don’t have many hours, or even minutes, to spare. You run full throttle from the moment you wake up until you finally close your eyes at night. The only problem with your go-go-go mentality is…
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How to Stay Calm Under Pressure
Four different project deadlines are approaching. You have eight urgent emails in your inbox. One manager is asking you in person why their project isn’t completed, while another is sending you a direct message online asking you to prioritize their task. Another co-worker asks over your shoulder if you want to go for a walk…
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Mental Health at the Workplace with Sam Jones
Research shows that 1 in 6.8 people are experiencing mental health problems in the workplace and evidence suggests that 12.7% of all sickness absence days in the UK can be attributed to mental health conditions. Although there is an obvious need for better mental health support in the workplace, most people still don’t feel confident to…
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Burnout Uncovered: What You Should Know
Dealing with stress at work is something everyone has to learn to live with, no matter what kind of job you have and no matter how many time management workshops you’ve attended. It also comes in waves — just when you think life is getting easier and your stress more manageable, something comes up and…
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Mindfulness in 5 Minutes
In a world full of distractions competing for our attention and the feeling of constantly running out of time, it is crucial to take the time to de-stress and bring more positive thoughts into our lives. This is exactly what mindfulness can help us achieve. We’ve put together some easy to implement mindfulness exercises which…
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How Yoga Can Give You Energy and Motivation to be Super Productive
Perhaps one of the most powerful ways yoga helps to improve motivation is by quieting the voice in your mind that says “it’s not possible”. Being dragged down by your own harmful words causes self doubt which can lead to taking no action whatsoever. Even in the act of attempting challenging poses, you will realize…
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3-Day Weekends For a Better Work Life Balance
It’s a no-brainer that taking time off and using up your holiday allowance, will improve your Work-Life Balance. But what if you didn’t have to solely rely on your annual holiday allowance but every weekend feels like a bit of a holiday? Could 3-Day Weekends become the next productivity trend? Our HQ team in Brighton has…
