Vanessa Bennett7 April 2020LinkedIn Don’t love presenting? Here are 6 tips to get over yourself so that you can learn to love itDo a presentation or die? If you believe the statistics, most people would apparently prefer the latter! That seems a little dramatic and sounds like a lot of people are getting themselves tied up in knots unnecessarily. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett26 March 2020LinkedIn Need to bring in clients but don’t want to be “salesy”? Try thinking of it this way insteadMany lawyers and accountants (and many others too) know this conundrum….. For so many years you are assessed on your technical capabilities and then as you approach the path to Partner, you are expected to be able to uncover opportunities to attract more clients, and therefore revenue, to the business. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett12 March 2020LinkedIn How to survive the open plan officeAhh the open plan office…… still a major point of contention for research on efficiency and productivity. They might save on fixed costs but are there other costs associated with potentially less productivity? Read full article
Vanessa Bennett13 February 2020LinkedIn How to perform at your best. Always!Thanks to the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and sports training principles, we have increasing knowledge about how to master our productivity and mindset for success, without the unproductive stress, anxiety and burnout that often comes with so-called “high performance”. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett30 January 2020LinkedIn Enough with the KPIs, here’s what we really need to focus onIt’s a familiar story, we often coach clients where the people that they work with are doing just enough to meet their Key Performance Indicators (not shooting the lights out but just enough). Read full article
Vanessa Bennett16 January 2020LinkedIn Building mental muscle: applying physical training principles to your brainWe all know that training our bodies physically helps us to avoid physical illness. Well thanks to the intersection between psychology and neuroscience we now also know that we can train our brains mentally to avoid mental illness and be totally awesome in the process. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett5 December 2019LinkedIn Biohacking – it’s a thing – here’s our take on the situation…I was recently on a flight and watched a documentary on biohacking and smart drugs. Long story short it followed the journey of a keynote speaker who was a futurist. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett14 November 2019LinkedIn Want to spend less time on email? Try some of these tips…Whenever we are coaching people we hear this issue time and time again. “Emails are so time consuming”. And quite frankly, we couldn’t agree more. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett24 October 2019LinkedIn How I’m fitting in an extra 20+ hours a week for my MastersAt NEP we come across many people who are choosing or required to do more study. And let’s face it – these days continuous learning is one of the pillars of success. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett3 October 2019LinkedIn Why do we overvalue people who undervalue sleep?On my staycation over Christmas and New Year this year I read “Why we sleep” by Matthew Walker. What a fantastic book. A delicious compilation of neuroscientific studies showing why it’s so important that we get our required sleep. I really cannot recommend this book highly enough. Read full article
