by Catherine Stothart | Mar 22, 2022 | Digital Age, Personality styles
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. ...
by Catherine Stothart | Jul 22, 2020 | Digital Age, Extraversion and Introversion
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...
by Catherine Stothart | Nov 6, 2018 | Digital Age, Self-confidence and self-esteem
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...
by Catherine Stothart | Apr 9, 2018 | Digital Age
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...
by Catherine Stothart | Mar 26, 2018 | Digital Age
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...
