Category: Performance
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What can I do about a toxic colleague?
This month's question comes from Louisa: Hi Kate, I was so grateful to read your recent email on identifying toxic people. You have helped me clarify that my colleague is either narcissistic or toxic in some way. I have been working with them for nearly a year...
Struggling with your sleep? My advice on World Sleep Day
Many people struggle to get the sleep that they really need. Common reasons include stress and anxiety, raising young children, noise disturbance, sleep disorders, and medical conditions. But there are other factors, perhaps seemingly minor or insignificant,...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This Month's Blog Posts February 3rd, 2023 – Would you like to learn how to manage your stress better? I've joined forces with IPSE to create a new, low-cost online Stress Resilience course, which incorporates ALL the core elements that I work on with private...
Questions about the Stress Resilience course?
This week’s question is from Vicky: Vicky has a couple of hesitations about the new 6-week Stress Resilience course I’m running that starts in March. If you missed last week’s blog post about the course, you can read it here. Hi Kate, I’m very...
Would you like to learn how to manage your stress better?
Over the past couple of years, I’ve teamed up with IPSE, an organisation supporting people who are self-employed and/or contracting. I’ve delivered a variety of webinar sessions for their members on topics such as stress awareness, burnout, and selfcare for...
How can I stop over-investing & taking on too much at work?
This month’s question comes from Pamela Hi Kate, I’m a bit of a workaholic and I over-invest myself in work matters, caring about things that I don’t need to get involved in. In the past, this has led to me getting a reputation as someone that will...
Feeling stressed about September?!
It's that time of the year when many people feel a sense of impending doom about work getting very busy and stressful again now that Summer is (almost) over. When you’re feeling this way, one of the best things you can do is to get a head start by planning your...
Ask yourself this simple question when things seem stressful
This week’s blog post is inspired by a conversation I was having in a coaching session earlier this week. My client, Katherine, has a lot on with a new team member starting the first day she returns to work after her holiday and she was feeling quite stressed...
Lessons learnt in Lisbon – Part 2
This week’s post is part 2 of Lessons learnt after a week of being in flow in Lisbon. What I mean by being ‘in flow’, is when your awareness is in the present moment. You’re not in your mind planning, strategising or thinking about the past or future. This was...
Six tools for managing stress as a leader
If you're a leader in the workplace, you will have undoubtably developed a good level of stress resilience to get to where you are. Yet, as a leader, you are also juggling a myriad of work-related responsibilities and pressures – mental, emotional, and physical – day...
How do I avoid burnout in the long run?
This month’s question comes from Sarah: Hi Kate, How do I avoid burnout in the long run? I find that weekends or rest days don’t take away from the overall burnout. Thanks ever so much! My Answer: This is a great question and I think the answer...
The benefits of a fictional commute when you WFH
As I explained in last week's email, the reason I’m covering this topic is that I sense that the next 6 months or so will be a challenging time, especially for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere where the weather will be darker and colder. So, the...
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