Little is said about this in the work environment because little is said about mental health in the workplace, but the truth is that for many getting up every day is difficult. In Spain 2,4 million people suffer from depression, 5,2% of the population and most continue to go to their place ...
I don't recall any job interview in which Human Resources sought curiosity as a candidate's competence. What a mistake! We recently taught a course at the Madrid College of Physicians on conflict resolution and we all realized its importance. In an exercise where we asked two volunteers to argue if ...
Anxiety and fear are very present in our day to day in the form of sensations or actions. Some of these sensations are physical (shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, agitation, tiredness, etc.) and others are mental (overwhelmed, desire to flee or attack, restlessness, insecurity, etc.) that together lead us to certain actions. These actions, in ...
Emotional Intelligence will be one of the ten most sought after job skills in the coming decades. It is so important that by itself it explains why two people with the same intellectual capacity, training, education and experience, progress and others do not. Empathy is a characteristic of emotionally intelligent people. It is the ability to ...
We continue with the summer readings and we work with the HBR Guide to Motivating people from the Harvard Business Review to reconnect with what makes us feel good, perform better, motivate ourselves and even enjoy work. If something sums up what every manager must work for the well-being and performance of all employees, this ...
How many in summer I take advantage of my free time to read and among others I read "How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barret where we are told that emotions are not universal. In Spain and Mexico we are wasting time trying to guess the political ideas of a person interpreting ...
Despite the fact that we live in conditions and enjoy a quality of life with which our parents had not even imagined, we all have to deal with the obstacles of the day to day, with our own limitations and with the difficulties inherent to the condition human. Our era characterizes a society ...
Today, we live in an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (the so-called “VUCA environment”). According to a study carried out by CinfaSalud on stress in Spain during 2017, nine out of ten Spaniards (96,0%) have felt stress in the last year and four out of ten (42,1%), ...
"Look me in the eye when I speak to you ..." Something that many of us have heard, something with a lot of sense and that today, with the use of technology, we have lost. It seems incredible how communication through technology has deprived us of that 70% that some studies say that non-verbal communication contributes. ...
Increasingly, we are concerned with our well-being, especially physical health. This leads us to carry out healthy behaviors such as: taking care of our diet, doing sports, going to the doctor, etc. All this to lead a healthy life for fear of suffering a serious physical illness but… what about mental health? Do we take care of our mental health? ...