Ask a leader why the team is stressed and you will hear one word: workload. But research on 788,000 employees shows that unclear expectations and colliding demands often do more damage than volume. Five misreadings of workplace stress, the data behind them, and five better questions to ask your team.
High performers can continue delivering while their capacity quietly declines. Learn how leaders can recognise the early signals, ask better questions and act before overload affects performance, the team and business continuity.
Stress is often treated as an individual problem. But in real organizations, teams can either amplify pressure or become a powerful source of resilience. This article explores five common team stressors, the difference between personal and team coping, and how a Team Stress Profile can help teams prevent stress from becoming a private burden.
The Personal Stress Coping Profile™ provides a structured mirror of current pressure, coping responses, resilience resources, boundaries and recovery. It creates insight without diagnosing or labelling—and connects personal awareness with the wider team conditions that influence how people cope.
A 2023 randomized trial pitted four breathing techniques against each other. The winner takes five minutes a day. Here's what it taught me and how I built it into my coaching practice.
Most of the people I work with are good at handling things. That's exactly why their stress doesn't show up until it's expensive. Here's how I run a workshop that makes the hardest skill, saying no, something a team can actually get better at.
In today’s fast-paced world, work easily takes center stage in our identity. Inspired by Simone Stolzoff’s “How to Reclaim Your Life from Work,” this reflection exercise helps you rebalance what truly matters. The Circle of You invites you to visualize how your time and energy are divided — and what your ideal balance would look like. By comparing the two, you’ll see where small, meaningful shifts can begin. Your job should support your life, not define it. This exercise helps leaders and professionals take the first practical step toward balance, well-being, and authentic leadership.
It’s become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and a catchall for “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” (HBR). It’s also misleading: VUCA conflates four distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses. That makes it difficult to know how to approach a challenging situation and easy to use VUCA as a crutch, a way to throw off the hard work of strategy and planning—after all, you can’t prepare for a VUCA world, right? WRONG! in this session I deep-dive on the characteristics of VUCA to provide you more handles on dealing with them. An introduction to create more awareness. A 1 hour web-event to quickly increase your understanding of VUCA and how this impacts the workplace and team dynamics, including possible coping strategies for leaders.
The way you believe stress has an impact on your health, is going to be exactly the impact. Create a mind shift by watching Kelly's TED talk from >10 years ago.
Change the way you think about stress and take on the next big challenge fearless.






