In South Africa, like in many other countries, mental health is gaining more recognition and attention in the workplace. Mental health concerns can have significant economic consequences for any industry, including IT. When employees experience mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, or burnout, it can lead to increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, higher turnover rates, […]
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Financial freedom is not about being wealthy Inspired Leadership aims to equip people in the workplace to lead themselves well first. One of the elements that we need to lead is our relationship with money. Financial wellbeing is part of our overall wellbeing and an unhealthy relationship with money, and poor financial disciplines can radically
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In South Africa, like in many other countries, mental health is gaining more recognition and attention in the workplace. Mental health concerns can have significant economic consequences for any industry, including IT. When employees experience mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, or burnout, it can lead to increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, higher turnover rates
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Leading a Culture of Wellbeing as a Manager Discovery Health calculated that depression cost South Africa more than R218 Billion in lost productivity and R190bn in presenteeism! Many recognise this as a secondary pandemic and HR departments and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) have been hard at work over the last few years as both physical
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Equip managers to extinguish workplace burnout Sixty-one percent of surveyed IT professionals in SA report feeling burned out at work – are you part of the problem or the solution? Discovery Health calculated that depression cost South Africa more than R218 billion in lost productivity and R190 billion in presenteeism. Many recognise this as a
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Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risks and rewards during the decision-making process. When under stress people focus more on the possible positive outcomes. Strangely. when under stress, the natural tendency is to pay greater attention to positive information, while discounting negative information, according to research published in Current Directions in Psychological Science. This means when
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You may have heard that letting your cell phone run down to 0% before recharging is bad for its overall battery life. This turns out to be a relevant metaphor for device users, too: it’s far better to recharge our own “batteries” regularly, rather than wait until we are totally depleted or burned out. We
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One area of particular weakness in mid-level leaders and new supervisors that I have noticed in my 25 years of international leadership development training and coaching is their inability to give relevant, useful, and beneficial feedback. In fact, giving feedback is one of the greatest fears of new leaders at all levels of an organization.
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Empathy and compassion appear to be just what the doctor ordered as organizations re-group, re-think and re-organize. As human beings, our call is to kindness. Kindness to ourselves and each other. The more people I speak to the more I hear the mantra: I am crazy busy and exhausted. The 2020 call to self-compassion and
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5 reasons we avoid giving the gift of feedback I got home on Friday after having spent the full day out and about. I spoke at a conference and then spent 4 hours facilitating a client workshop. I knew when I left the house that it was going to be a busy day and didn’t
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