Insights

Alex Davids7 October 2021

The growing spectrum of mental fitness

Over the last 18 months, mental fitness has been top of the priority list for many businesses. Rightly so.

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Perpetua Neo30 September 2021

It’s not just Zoom: How you hold your meetings matter

Zoom’s bad name has been getting worse, of late. The terms “Zoom fatigue” and “Zoom burnout” depict our current situation where, forced to work from home or grounded in our home countries, we have been using the video-conferencing tool as surrogate, and in that developed high levels of exhaustion.

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Vanessa Bennett23 September 2021

We don’t like second hand smoking, so why put up with second hand stressing?

You can probably guess from the name what second hand stress is. It’s when others around you are feeling stressed and then your stress levels start to go up.

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Perpetua Neo16 September 2021

How to really make gratitude work for you

“I know everyone’s telling me I’ve got to be grateful, I know looking at all the people around me, I should. But I can’t. Am I a bad person?”, my client Terence asks me.

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Vanessa Bennett9 September 2021

Permission to vent – Granted!

Ah “to vent or not to vent?” – we get asked this question a lot at Next Evolution Performance. So here’s some neuroscience to help answer the question, as well as some practical tips to avoid too much carnage for you or those around you…

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Alex Davids2 September 2021

How much connecting do you have to do to be a great leader?

Leadership is a never-ending topic for conversation. In our view, anyone who thinks of themselves as a leader, is. We all have to lead ourselves after all.

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Perpetua Neo26 August 2021

Why we all need to know a little about trauma

A few years ago, British television presenter Piers Morgan dismissed Lady Gaga’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He said that only if you’ve been to war, that you’re allowed to use that term. As a psychologist, I affirmatively call bullshit on that.

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Alex Davids19 August 2021

Looking inward – A new way of planning

Winter is creeping in and it’s a natural time to go inward. What does that mean really?

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Vanessa Bennett12 August 2021

Your mental health is NOT your employer’s responsibility

Ok so this title may sound a little harsh. Hear me out…

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Perpetua Neo5 August 2021

Like chocolate and cheese: How to pair self-care with your personality

“Yes I remembered The List, and I did them!”, my client pings me a year after our work together. I love making these lists because they are memorable and more importantly, they circumvent how we’re wired to sabotage ourselves.

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The growing spectrum of mental fitness

It’s not just Zoom: How you hold your meetings matter

We don’t like second hand smoking, so why put up with second hand stressing?

How to really make gratitude work for you

Permission to vent – Granted!

How much connecting do you have to do to be a great leader?

Why we all need to know a little about trauma

Looking inward – A new way of planning

Your mental health is NOT your employer’s responsibility

Like chocolate and cheese: How to pair self-care with your personality

Sustainable high-performance without the burnout

Are we trying so hard to retain our staff that we are driving away our high performers?

I’m a leader, not a personal counsellor