Eve Ash

We now have mums AND dads who stay at home, mums and dads telecommuting, people juggling toddlers and many managing or mismanaging aged parents.

Are you juggling multiple priorities, faultlessly delivering? Your children are doing well at school; your partner is always there sharing tasks? Are you organised to the hilt? It’s a constant challenge to keep the oil slick of work and achievements under control.

Last week I wrote about being a successful mentor.

A lot of really successful people put high value on having good mentors in their working lives.

One of the most basic tenets of psychology is that behaviour that is rewarded is reinforced, and behaviour that isn’t rewarded gradually ebbs away.

What is the one thing you have in common with all of the most successful CEOs and business owners? You have 24 hours per day to achieve as much as humanly possible.

Whistleblowing is often the start of a positive change – fixing something that is very wrong.

When most people think of bullying, they imagine a nasty, vindictive boss standing over a subordinate, belittling and insulting them in front of the entire office staff.

There is a lot of discussion in psychology about extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, and most of us tend to look outside of ourselves for validation of what we do.

When you about to go in to your boss to resign are you excited, feeling dread, angry, confident, smug, highly anxious, guilty or relieved? Many people go through a wide array of emotions and most of them have been building for weeks.

The worst part about struggling with your workload is that you spend a lot of time and energy denying the fact you’re overloaded.

Why do many people get so serious at work? I remember getting into trouble at school for laughing – for teachers in my day it was a sign that someone had lost their focus or worse had committed the taboo of causing others to laugh.