Working from home, at the office or hybrid working? The pandemic has changed how, where and when we work – and it has changed how we interact with our colleagues. We experience stressors due to our natural personality differences when we interact with others. ...
When we raced to learn how to use Teams/Zoom/Google Meet, as a substitute for face to face meetings with our colleagues, we didn’t have time to think about what might be the best way to communicate in the virtual world – we simply transferred our meetings from...
Four Questions to Find your Focus Research by Ofcom suggests that we check our phones every 12 minutes and that 71% of us never switch them off. There is plenty of evidence that being “always on” has downsides – in our productivity, our ability to concentrate...
Boss “phubbing” reduces trust We’ve all seen people in groups looking at their phones rather than talking to each other. Now there’s a name for it – “phubbing”, short for “phone snubbing”, giving your phone precedence over the people you are with. It may...
Social media feeds our inner chimp According to Tim Urban, being connected 24/7 feeds our “instant gratification monkey” (see his TED talk), or what Steve Peters would call our “inner chimp” – we react to events too quickly, making snap decisions, driven by our...
