We often talk about working life as a relentless treadmill of eat, sleep, work, repeat. A recent study of 81 organisations and 189,000 employees by the management consultancy McKinsey and Company found that sleep affects: Attention Concentration Creativity Insight Pattern … Continue reading
Category Archives: Workplace wellness
Take your lunch break
Those who know me will know that I am rubbish at taking a lunch BREAK. I always have lunch but very rarely a BREAK. I have worked in a range of different roles in clinical practice, management and strategic leadership … Continue reading
Healthy Meetings
How much time do you spend in meetings? These days we have face to face meetings, conference calls, videoconferences and webinars, sometimes our diaries are back to back with meetings of various kinds. We all know that meetings can be … Continue reading
Dietitians’ Week 2016
Every year my profession celebrates all that Dietitians have to offer. For Dietitians’ Week 2016 our focus is Workplace Wellness. So many of us spend a huge proportion of our lives at work and even if we’ve established some healthy … Continue reading
The power of water at work
We all know that we need water to stay alive. Even my kids know this, they obsess about Bear Grylls their ultimate action hero and he is always on about different ways to get enough water in a survival situation. … Continue reading