Strategies For Managing Stress In The Workplace In 2007–08, a total of 13.5 million working days were lost to stress, Depression and anxiety in the UK. Nearly a third of organisations responding  To the CIPD 2008 Absence Management survey reported an increase in Stress-related absence in the last 12 months. The research varies globally but on average about one in six people say they find [...]

Learning Optimism Research is indicating that much of our personality is learned behaviour including our tendency to be optimistic or pessimistic.  We used to think that pretty much our brain was developed by the age of five and that much of our personality and ways of thinking was fixed throughout our lives. Well thanks to advances in scanning technologies we have leant more about the brain [...]

Stress Management Concepts Challenged The concept of stress management is fully ingrained in our psyche but some of the underlying beliefs and definitions of stress should be challenged. Essentially the belief goes like this if you are not as stressed as other people in similar situations then you are better at stress management. In this paradigm is a belief that stress is inevitable but the negative [...]