Building Career Resilience in the Age of AI
Remember when “artificial intelligence” was only in the realm of science fiction? We are now living in that future. AI is no longer simply conceptual; it’s woven into the fabric of our professional lives, transforming how work gets done across almost every industry.
While some may fear AI replacing jobs, the reality is far more nuanced. The key is to develop the skills to use AI effectively or else risk being displaced by those who do. Learning to properly prompt AI systems will soon become an essential competency for professionals in almost every sector.
Learn more in this blog written by Happy’s facilitator, DJ.
How to Better Equip Yourself When it Comes to Your Team’s Mental Health
With more and more companies engaging with wellbeing for their staff and recognising the importance of mental health, there’s a need for employers to equip their staff with the necessary skills to deal with incidences of mental ill health. That’s where the Mental Health Awareness For Managers course can support you.
Read more in this blog by Natalie Salmon.
3 Important Things About Communicating Across Differences
I’ve recently facilitated a session for a large group of professional coaches with the international coach federation (ICF – UK chapter) and part of what we’ve explored in the session was participants’ identities. We’ve done an exercise where participants explored different factors of their identity and as part of that same exercise, they also got the opportunity to reflect on which of these factors are most meaningful to them and how those factors influence how they show up personally and professionally. I’ve really enjoyed this session and the engaging discussions that took place.
Read more in this blog written by Marwa Farouq.
5 Simple Ways to Build Your Resilience and Reduce Stress
“A healthy mind in a healthy body”
We hear this so often these days. It’s become such a hackneyed phrase that we take the truth of it for granted – until something goes wrong. Maybe an injury or illness hits. Anxiety starts to take hold. You lose sleep. You lose mental clarity. You physically can’t do what you once did. Stress starts to take its toll and you start to suffer muscle injuries, headaches, unexplained illness. Suddenly, you don’t have any spare physical or mental capacity to cope with everyday knock-backs. Stress multiplies. You are, to put it bluntly, in trouble.
Managing stress is key to building resilience, and resilience is a key strength that can help you and your teammates (to quote another corny old phrase), to keep calm and carry on!
Written by Fenella Potter.
4 Things That Nonviolent Communication Improves
What I love about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is it enables me to let go of any judgement or fear of punishment. It enables me to ground myself in a world that is beyond right and wrong, beyond good and bad. It enables a deep understanding of myself and others.
Read more in this blog written by Marwa Farouq.
4 Key Insights From “Rest” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is one of our speakers at the online Happy Workplaces Conference on 15th June. He is a key player in the four-day work week movement and has also written a book called Shorter about that topic.
At the conference, he will be talking about his first book,
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.
“Long hours are an expression of our identity and proof of our seriousness,” Alex suggests. “They don’t necessarily make us more productive; they make us look more productive.”
6 Ways to Receive and Respond to Feedback Positively
Appraisal time! I don’t know about you, but I used to hate that. I used to presume it would all be negative, fault finding, with a good helping of ‘mansplaining’ thrown in. I now see that attitude was a confidence issue rather than based in fact – apart, maybe, from the mansplaining! But dealing with negative feedback at work – or indeed in any area of life – can be challenging.
In this blog Fenella Potter outlines some of her tips for ways to receive and respond to feedback positively.
6 Tips to Improve Your Self-Confidence
Low confidence prevents us from getting on with stuff, limits risk-taking, career progression or even career choice, and personal growth. (It’s even taken me a bit of time to get on with writing this, as I didn’t feel very confident!)
Find out six tips to improve your self-confidence in this blog by Fenella Potter.
4 Ways To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
Work. How does that word make you feel? Motivated? Challenged? Excited? Stressed? Depressed? Angry? Happy? The world of work is an emotional maelstrom. Recognising your feelings is the starting point to managing your responses and using them in a way that serves you best. And that, in a nutshell, is what Emotional Intelligence (EI), is.
One Ridiculously Simple Thing You Can Do To Improve All Your Meetings
Most people are so busy going from meeting to meeting, with one meeting spilling over into the next. No time to plan meetings, no time to reflect on what might work better — just getting through the day. But there is one thing that brilliant leaders do all the time.
In this blog, Dr Carrie Goucher shares this one ridiculously simple thing you can do that will improve all of your meetings.
