Vanessa Bennett30 January 2020 LinkedIn Enough with the KPIs, here’s what we really need to focus on It’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
Andrew Westcombe23 January 2020 LinkedIn What are you paying attention to? I love that new car smell. We all do, right? It’s quite distinctive. Clean, a little sweet and yet undeniably industrial. You wouldn’t wear it as cologne, but it’s part of the pleasure of buying a new car, probably because of its associations with the pleasure and excitement of a major new purchase. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett16 January 2020 LinkedIn Building mental muscle: applying physical training principles to your brain We 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
Kate McKenna12 December 2019 LinkedIn What your bank of evidence says about you Have you heard that saying, “Motivation will get you started, dedication will keep you going”? It’s about being dedicated to your cause, rather than just being motivated to do something at one point in time. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett5 December 2019 LinkedIn 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
Kate McKenna28 November 2019 LinkedIn Using limitations for good and not evil… Beliefs, the wiring in our brain that guides us to act and behave in response to what’s going on around us, can often stop us from moving forward and achieving goals. Read full article
Alex Davids21 November 2019 LinkedIn Culture vs. culture At NEP lately, we’ve been up to our armpits in culture work. So, we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about why culture is always a hot topic in business. Of course, we believe it should be. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett14 November 2019 LinkedIn 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
Kate McKenna7 November 2019 LinkedIn Stop…it’s napping time! I recently read an article by Alex Shultz on the best way to take a nap (“How to Take the Perfect Weekend Nap”). It was really interesting in that it explained all about our circadian rhythm and how our weekend habits can have a different effect to during the week. Read full article
Barbara Traub31 October 2019 LinkedIn Is low energy multi-faceted? One of the most common complaints I hear in my clinic is people saying they have low energy or fluctuating energy levels. Read full article