Dame Nancy Rothwell is a leading neuroscientist, and the first woman to lead the Russell Group of elite universities in the UK. …

Over the last 6 months, we have been working with small local businesses in Portsmouth and London, and with big global corporations. What we are seeing across the board is very long period of intensive stress for people who used to work in offices and who are working from home. …

The 5 components of a team vision, and how to create it using the Newspaper Headline tool. The US team brought 9 sports psychologists to the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Elite athletes are expected to be in peak physical condition, but they also substantially improve their competitive advantage with…

As we went into lockdown in March, we were very worried. A large part of Paraffin’s work is delivered via face to face workshops and trainings, and like everyone else in the world we had no idea what COVID-19 would mean for us. …

Bad behaviour, like all behaviour, is a habit. Difficult people have found attention, gratification or comfort in their behaviour in the past —and they will continue to do so, unless you intervene. In my experience, many teams have a team mate who makes things more difficult than they need to be. I’m not talking about the ones who are Toxic with a capital T (for example racists, bullies or sexists) who need to managed out of the business. …

Even before COVID-19, we were feeling greater time pressure than ever at work. Companies have been increasing their demands for efficiency, smaller teams are doing the work that larger teams used to do, jobs have changed and we are given ever more challenging work to do in a more complicated…

7 ways to create a better normal back at the office — I thought I’d be desperate to get back to the office after lockdown, but when the day came, I felt really nervous. In the same way that I felt really panicked when we were forced to move the office home, now I didn’t want to go back in! …

7 lessons I learned about writing a business book — In summer 2019 I’d reached a bit of a “meh” moment. I had been working on my second business book proposal for over a year, and just couldn’t get it right. The name was wrong, I was unsure about the audience, and I honestly didn’t know if I had the…

3 ways to use this once in a lifetime chance to reset our teams for the better — We know from consumer research that people don’t change their habits unless everything around them has changed, (which is why they deliver product samples to new mums — having a baby makes you re-evaluate all your choices, so it’s a crucial time for people to try new products). …