Admit it. Your new job just isn’t living up to expectations. On paper, it should be everything you’d hope it would be – after all, you’re now in a more senior position, working on more exciting projects and even being better financially rewarded than you were in your previous role. Why, then, are you just not enjoying your new challenge? Continue reading Hate your new job? Here’s what you should do
Losing your train of thought can be stressful. Battling with brain freeze in a job interview can be even worse.
At some point we’ve all experienced brain freeze. It can happen during an exam, presentation or an important interview. This scenario can often make a stressful situation even more nerve wracking. What counts is how we deal with brain freeze, and move on.
Even if you’ve prepared extensively for your job interview, your mind might still go blank. Take time to collect your thoughts and reset. Brain freeze in interviews can happen to anyone. That’s why we’ve compiled some simple tips to help you deal with your mind going blank in a job interview. We’ll also look at how you can avoid a mental block happening again in the future. Continue reading What to do if your mind goes blank during an a job interview
Receiving poor feedback during a performance review is never easy, regardless of whether you’d anticipated it or not. Not only can it feel like a personal attack on you as a person, it can also be difficult not to take it to heart, or let it knock your confidence. Continue reading Blindsided by a poor performance review? Here’s what to do next
Have you recently graduated? Are you grieving the loss of your old student life? Are you wondering what it will be like to be a fully-fledged member of the working world? Yes, and yes? I hate to break it to you, and as patronising as it might sound, you really are about to enter the ‘real world’ – one that will bring a whole load of new lessons. So, remember, just because the relentless exam process has finally stopped for you, your learning hasn’t. Far from it. Continue reading 13 ways to transition from student life to working life
Most of us spend far more time with our work colleagues than we do with our friends and family. It’s no wonder, then, that we become good friends with the people that work both with and for us – even our bosses. Many of us often make lifelong friendships at work. But, while that may be a great thing for improving your happiness at work, and even making us feel more fulfilled, could these friendships be inadvertently acting as a barrier to career progress? Continue reading Work friendships are great, but could yours be inadvertently holding you back from finding a new job?
The world of work has been and continues to be transformed by technology. It’s an extremely exciting time and one filled with change and opportunity. Every organisation in every industry in every part of the world now has the chance to benefit from all the value this technology can bring.
Technology can help us reach new customers and engage with existing ones. It can help us develop new products and services and optimise internal processes to make them faster, more efficient, and more agile.
Technology has the power to bring lots of good to our working lives. However, if it’s not managed and used properly, it can have potentially damaging consequences, particularly on our mental health. Many people feel that because the technology is available 24/7 they should always be available and responsive.
So today I’m joined by Sarah Churchman, Chief Inclusion and Wellbeing officer at PwC. Sarah is here to talk to us about how business leaders and employers can help their employees have a positive relationship with technology in a way that maintains good mental health.
The world of work has been and continues to be transformed by technology. It’s an extremely exciting time and one filled with change and opportunity. Every employee in every industry in every part of the world, now has the chance to benefit from all the value that technology can bring. It can help us to do our work more effectively from anywhere – technology can help us with the more repetitive aspects of our jobs and certainly has the power to bring lots of good to our working lives.
However, if it’s not managed and used properly, it can have potentially damaging consequences, especially towards our mental health. So today, I’m joined by Sarah Churchman, Chief Inclusion and Wellbeing Officer at PwC. Sarah is here to talk to us today about how we can all establish healthy digital technology consumption habits to enable us to thrive both inside and outside of work.
Continue reading Podcast 26: How to have a mentally healthy relationship with technology
