Be stress free and start your own business or not?
Before embarking on a self-employed career, you need to give consideration as to whether you are really suited to what will initially be a 24 hour job.
Before embarking on a self-employed career, you need to give consideration as to whether you are really suited to what will initially be a 24 hour job.
International Women’s day has always had a specialmeaning for me. To read of the stories of community, empowerment and leadership is such a motivation and encouragement for all women, whether at home or in the workplace.
Find out how to deal with stress when you have just been made redundant.
Stress and self destruction. A tragic end to the brilliant career of the young, talented and popular performer, Amy Winehouse.
Are you being asked to work longer for no more money?
Would you like your team to put in more hours without feeling resentful?
How can you ensure people still put in the hours without feeling resentful or become stressed? Three simple solutions come to mind from, Stress Management expert, Carole Spiers.
A healthy person can respond to pressure and enjoy the stimulus. However a person who has been under intense pressure over a long period is unlikely to have sufficient coping reserves to manage cumulative stress. The first signs that they are not coping will inevitably show up in their work performance, in their behaviour and, ultimately, also in their appearance and persona. It is rather like a car trying to run on an empty tank.
If more Emirati women are to emerge as business leaders in the future, they must develop their self-confidence and, perhaps, renegotiate their responsibilities with their families. The challenge for the UAE is to create an environment where Emirati women can pursue any career they choose in the future, and know that they will be judged on the basis of their work performance and not on their gender.
24/7 work-attendance is assumed to be an unfortunate necessity in competitive business. New evidence shows that it induces a state of ‘bad intensity’ that discourages creative insight.
Stress-guru and keynote presenter Carole Spiers lives her own declared philosophy of overcoming so-called impossible challenges on the 10th anniversary of National Stress Awareness Day.
A makeover may not seem the most obvious remedy for the stress symptoms of a recession. But recent research indicates that women are spending more on their clothes, hair and general makeover than they were a couple of years ago