Vanessa Bennett10 September 2020 LinkedIn We have a blank sheet of paper to design the way we want to work – do you know how to make the best of it? At the start of Covid we NEP coaches were helping many people to adjust to their new working environment. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett13 August 2020 LinkedIn Stop “shoulding” yourself One of the best ways to work on your mental fitness is to understand “cognitive distortions” and how they impact your brain in a negative way. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett23 July 2020 LinkedIn Sometimes not going backwards is still progress Anyone who knows me knows that I have a love/hate relationship with yoga. Actually, when you take a weighted average mean, it’s more like a lukewarm relationship with yoga, and most I don’t feel like I’m getting any better at it. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett2 July 2020 LinkedIn What if you woke up tomorrow with only things you were grateful for today? Now I’ll admit I don’t mind some mindless scrolling through Instagram here and there. I love motivational quotes – which is not surprising in my line of work. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett18 June 2020 LinkedIn The power of “unsubscribe” It’s so easy to get distracted in so many ways. Add in a global pandemic and those distractions seem to increase at an exponential rate. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett4 June 2020 LinkedIn Mastering your energy is now more important than ever Anyone who has ever heard anyone from Next Evolution Performance will have heard the term “energy credits”. It’s the foundation of our Performance Mastery System. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett30 April 2020 LinkedIn You only have 4-6 hours of true cognitive energy each day. So how do you make your whole work day productive? Sorry to break the news to you but according to neuroscience you only have around four to six hours a day of full cognitive energy – where you can really do those heavy energy tasks. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett23 April 2020 LinkedIn Why high performers need leadership coaching more than anyone Let’s face it, leadership is hard. And effective leadership requires skills in areas like neuroscience, psychology, performance, burnout (and the list goes on…..). These aren’t skills that anyone is just born with. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett7 April 2020 LinkedIn Don’t love presenting? Here are 6 tips to get over yourself so that you can learn to love it Do 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 2020 LinkedIn Need to bring in clients but don’t want to be “salesy”? Try thinking of it this way instead Many 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