By Chris Welford on 5th November, 2020 in Change, Stress and Pressure
Stress hits us in different ways. Our first response is often simply a feeling; somewhere in the body. Some feelings are shown in the second ring from the middle of this picture CLICK HERE view the Stress Circle On the whole, it’s not a great idea to act solely on...
By Chris Welford on 4th November, 2020 in Change, Feelings and Emotions
Here we go again! What did we learn from last time? Here are some ideas for making it all a bit easier. The head stuff! Listen, you are enough already. This isn’t easy, so lay off the massive re-decorating plans, the sourdough baking competition and idea that you have to...
By Chris Welford on 3rd November, 2020 in Stress and Pressure, Wellbeing
You know about adrenalin. We talk about an “adrenalin rush”. Most people understand the role of adrenalin in the human flight or fight response. But adrenalin isn’t the only stress hormone. There’s also cortisol. Both chemicals are secreted by the adrenal glands, which sit above the kidneys. Each...
By Chris Welford on 2nd November, 2020 in Development, Stress and Pressure
Knowing your habitual pattern of response when challenged, pressured or even threatened is as useful as knowing about the basic building blocks of your personality. If you don’t want to live on autopilot or to become the victim of your own destructive drivers, this area of self-knowledge is essential. Even...
By Chris Welford on 27th October, 2020 in Relationships, Self-knowledge
In the last blog, we talked about feedback and how to support people with a be perfect or please others driver. But what if the person who needs help is you? Here are a few ideas for calming those compulsions that we can all feel when we are stressed and...
By Chris Welford on 19th October, 2020 in Assessment, Coaching, Self-knowledge
It’s generally accepted in organisations that feedback is a good thing. Training in providing feedback (where it’s given) goes something like this: find some quality time to sit down with a person; be clear about what you want to say; be specific about behaviour and stick to the facts. All...
By Chris Welford on 13th October, 2020 in Assessment, Self-Knowledge
We’ve been telling stories to each other pretty much since the birth of language. Art, philosophy and religion are replete with tales about human behaviour and interactions. But we don’t just tell stories to each other, we also tell them to ourselves e.g. ‘I’m not good enough,’ ‘I must be...
By Chris Welford on 6th October, 2020 in Assessment, Development, Psychotherapy & Counselling, Sane Works
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet Ask most people about their development goals and they will reel off a list of weaknesses that they want to...
By Chris Welford on 28th September, 2020 in Development, Psychotherapy & Counselling
How do you develop people in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world we are currently living in? We think traditional management and leadership development is no longer enough – even if it is being delivered remotely and flexibly. Right now, more than ever in this changing VUCA...
By Chris Welford on 1st September, 2020 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
Have you ever faced a really difficult task? Or encountered a challenge that seemed too hard for you, such as a problem that you could not solve no matter how hard you tried? How did you react? Whilst we would probably all agree that these situations are somewhat frustrating, most...
By Chris Welford on 13th August, 2020 in Coaching, Development
HR professionals don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how they get their message across; well not in my experience. All too often there seems to be the assumption that our knowledge and insight should speak for itself or that cursory references to best practice are enough. But there’s...
By Chris Welford on 3rd August, 2020 in Positive Works, Sane Works
Sixth Sense Six Week Challenge To download this as a PDF Click HERE As we all stagger towards a new normal, it’s become all too clear that many of us have fallen into some bad habits: lack of exercise, all the wrong foods and too much drink, to name but...
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