by Alan Chatting | Apr 25, 2017 | Management and Leadership
For the last two decades I have worked with Employee Assistance Programmes as a psychotherapist. An EAP offers support to employees of large companies in the form of legal helplines, financial advice, personal support and sometimes as face-to-face counselling. That’s...
by Alan Chatting | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
According to Forbes magazine, 46% of all new hires leave their posts within 18 months. The vast majority of these appointment failures are because the candidates lack the soft skills to perform rather than the job-specific skills. If you thought that this was an...
by Alan Chatting | Mar 27, 2017 | Personal Development
Lots of people feel like a child when they are dealing with authority figures. It holds them back and stops them from dealing with the world in an effective way, especially at work. Maybe this is you – if so, would you like it to be different? Change your ego-state to...
by Alan Chatting | Feb 3, 2017 | Management and Leadership
That’s the first line of a cute little song by Danny Kaye (you won’t remember him!) and the story was all about an ugly duckling who turned out to be a cygnet. When he lost his dull brown feathers he became a beautiful white swan, but he had to be shown his reflection...
by Alan Chatting | Jan 28, 2017 | Personal Development
We live in one of the richest countries of the world, so what do we need to worry about? We have free public healthcare, a low infant mortality rate, and high life expectancy. We are free from war, famine, earthquakes and hurricanes. We still worry. Tragedy It seems...
by Alan Chatting | Dec 9, 2016 | Personal Development
They didn’t teach you at school how to work this out when I was a kid. Most people I know went for a quick answer, chose a life path, and got on with following it. We tended to base our choices on a range of influences. Maybe you have also run your life like...
by Alan Chatting | Dec 8, 2016 | Personal Development
What if every choice created a new world? Iain Banks, who died recently, wrote a novel called Transition, based in a universe where our world appears an infinite number of times, with every choice by every person making a new, parallel world where everything is...
by Alan Chatting | Nov 21, 2016 | Personal Development
This great talk explains how we fool ourselves that we are “completed” at every age of our lives. At every age, we change and change again. The message? We keep on changing, over and over, and this gives us the opportunity to reinvent ourselves....
by Alan Chatting | Nov 20, 2016 | Personal Development
This is a great little video about building and creating your own self-esteem, from a very brave woman....
by Alan Chatting | Nov 14, 2016 | Management and Leadership
This is one of the most-watched TED talks of all, and it is important, interesting and funny. It might suggest to you that there is something you are great at that you have never discovered!...
