Dec
12
My latest video on our YouTube channel is a simple guide to conducting your own weekly review. Looking back on our week allows us to 'bank' what went well, consider what didn't and identify practical changes we're going to make the following week. When coaching my clients, they're often put...
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Dec
08
For this month's online community meet-up, I'll be facilitating an introduction to my task management app of choice: Todoist. In past meet-ups, we've looked at the role of values, how to make career decisions and how to cultivate a healthier relationship with our personal devices. In this session, I'll be...
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Sep
15
We wrapped up our recent podcast series on coaching last week, posing the question 'Can a manager be a coach?' If you're considering coaching for yourself or your organisation, this is a great place to start. In this post, I look back on the series and signpost how we explored...
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Jun
29
The latest episode of our podcast represents the start of a new series focusing on coaching. We start with the very essential question: what is coaching? In the past, I shared various academic definitions of coaching and the coaching relationship. But these days, I tend to describe it as the process...
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Jun
25
I'll be honest with you. I started our podcast as an experiment. In a world filled to the brim with podcasts, did we really need one more? And was there even room for another psychology podcast? Well, ninety episodes later, it seems like we have an audience. A growing one,...
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Apr
19
Mindfulness has become a bit of a hype term with lots of different and often contrasting information advertised. This can make it very confusing to distinguish the truths from the myths. So here are five common myths about mindfulness, shared from the perspective of a mindfulness researcher: 1. You need...
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Apr
16
In the latest episode of ‘My Pocket Psych’, I’m joined by mindfulness researcher, Sarah Strohmaier, for a fresh look at mindfulness. We look at the evidence for mindfulness as a wellbeing intervention at work and how its popularity has been a bit of a double-edged sword. Merely mentioning the word...
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Mar
19
I was delighted to have Dr. Kevin Teoh as a guest on this week's episode of 'My Pocket Psych'. We explored the topic of workplace wellbeing and how organisations - despite good intentions - can get caught up with fads, rather than addressing the fundamentals of good work. One area...
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Mar
16
It’s ‘Health and Wellbeing at work week’ and so our social media channels are full to the brim with events, reflections and suggestions for improving workplace wellbeing. In a short series of posts this week, I’d like to press ‘pause’, take a step back and adopt a different perspective when...
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Mar
09
Do you find yourself automatically checking your email in the evening? Do you catch yourself getting lost in a social media stream when you should be working? Do your device's various notifications get your attention faster than anyone in your family can? Would you like to be more deliberate and...
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