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5 Tips to Beat Overwhelm (and Build Resilience)

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5 Tips to Beat Overwhelm (and Build Resilience)

RESILIENCE IS ABOUT OVERCOMING SETBACKS

The skill of resilience, will help you not just to cope with adversity, but also help you with points two (too much change) and three (overwhelming workloads) above. This is because resilience is a transferable and higher level skill than the skills of dealing with change and overwhelm. Resilient people will be able to figure out for themselves how to deal with change fatigue and overwhelm.

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How to Reduce Friction and Get Performance Humming

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How to Reduce Friction and Get Performance Humming

Friction refers to systems and processes that don’t work properly

Around this time of year in Australia, the performance of staff often deteriorates.

Why this time of year? Well, it's halfway between the big end-of-year holidays (and after the end of the tax year). In Australia and New Zealand that’s around July. In other countries, for instance, the US, it's more likely to be in January and February again halfway between the big breaks. It’s also coldest and darkest.

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3 Causes of Workplace Stress & How To Turn Them Into Performance

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3 Causes of Workplace Stress & How To Turn Them Into Performance

Resilience is the key theme

I run many resilience programs and at the start of each program I always ask people what is testing their resilience and why they are in the program. The answers are often different – not just between the participants in the room – but more importantly between the participants in the room and the leader or manager who hired me to run the program.

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