High emotional labour is seen as a major challenge for nurses working in mental health. The work is emotionally gruelling and there is a frequent need to mask real feelings and maintain a professional demeanour.   This article by Cynthia Delgado and her colleagues at...

This study demonstrates that a short-term resilience-building intervention can assist build employee resilience – even during downsizing. Shane Rogerson and colleagues Rudi Meir, Zac Crowley-McHattan, Kathryn McEwen and Rachel Pastoors assessed the impact of a 5-week...

The role of the front-line nurse managers is not only pressurised but is also becoming more complex and challenging. Resilience – the capacity to manage the everyday pressure of work and stay healthy, adapt to change and position for future challenges could be viewed...

In recognition that resilience development during university can increase positive employment outcomes, academics at RMIT Australian University have been exploring how students can gain these skills before entering the industry.  This study explores the baseline...

We frequently have the privilege of coaching people who do extraordinary jobs that involve caring for others. While their clients are diverse and may be the aged, disabled, abused, vulnerable, traumatized or sick, the common thread is the importance of compassion and...

Working in health and social care is rewarding yet often challenging. In addition to the obvious physical and emotional demands of patient and community care, there are high expectations around professional standards and safety, the need to meet key performance...

One of the areas of interest to me in my work is the number of fads and ‘one approach fits all’ solutions that we see in organisation development. Call me cynical, but I am often bemused and sometimes astounded, at how often old concepts are re-purposed, long-standing...

One of the trends I have noticed in recent years is the number of psychological therapies that are being re-purposed for coaching. In the past week alone I have seen narrative therapy, ACT, RET, CBT and grief counselling principles offered as part of coach training. ...

Eight  practices that help Working through uncertainty is all about fear – fear of the unknown.  While the unknown may not generally be an issue in our lives, and may even be exciting, it can be difficult when it involves our employment as this affects our livelihood....

With requests for building team resilience at work on the increase, it’s important that we continue to provide strategies that work. I thought I’d share some thoughts around the common traps we can fall into…  Mistake Number 1: Current versus future focus When I met...

In Australia COVID19 has struck another blow and is causing stress and strain on all of us, to varying degrees. We send our best wishes to those who are sick and to the impacted families in such a worrying time. For those back in Stage 3 restrictions, take care and...