I don't think I'm the first to question the need to separate work and life. And less in these times where many people still work from home. Some even "forever." The truth is that working is part of our day to day and should be more than a means of earning ...
We live in a society in which we are always connected, literally ... telecommuting, Instagram, whatsApp, linkdIn, facebook, calls ... we invest a lot of hours in being connected, we get used to it and take it as routine, and even the abusive use of devices we get to normalize it. Now that we are on vacation we can take advantage of this ...
Today I was speaking in a training session for a Canarian company about the challenges that we are facing right now as individuals and as teams in companies. We are all living a process of adaptation to a new world with peculiar characteristics. Maybe the word VUCA sounds familiar to you. The Covid has shown that we live ...
In this month's Harvard Business Review we found the article titled How to Do Hybrid Right. We recommend it from Healthy Work for all companies that face the changes that have arisen in the work model due to Covid 19. After telling us that 55% of workers choose a model ...
It is true that the pandemic has affected us in many ways in the different areas of our lives. It has changed the way we work, how we relate to others, the activities we do, our routines, etc. Stress, anxiety, family and work demands and expectations in addition to the loss of ...
Learning is the process by which knowledge, attitudes, behaviors or skills are acquired and modified either through experience, reasoning, observation or instruction. It is a process that makes use of attention, memory, language, etc. Instead of focusing on how it works ...
Everyone makes their decisions about what they want to share at work. At the end of the day, they are many hours working. As far as we want to share, it is a personal decision but also marked by the policies and values within the company and by factors related to the social situation. Well, COVID ...
A few months ago I set my goal to do an Ironman. The Ironman is a triathlon that consists of swimming 3,8 kilometers, riding 180 kilometers by bicycle, and then running a marathon. Training for a race like this requires going a long way, spending a lot of time, and being willing to make a lot of sacrifices. At last and ...
So many tools to be resilient (and so many that we don't use). There is exercise, eating healthy, sleeping well, having the support of family, friends and co-workers, better managing our thoughts, relaxation and mindfulness, there is curiosity to overcome fear and today we speak in Healthy Work about self-knowledge. No doubt…
We are all tired. The state of hypervigilance to control the uncontrollable has left us exhausted and we do not have the energy to work effectively. On the other hand, there is nothing in sight that promises a good and secure future for most of the people: there are ERTE, layoffs, it does not seem that we can travel ...
It seems that we are increasingly familiar with the acronym VUCA and it is better for us because it is what we have had to live and the sooner we accept it, the more resilient we will be and the better we will be able to function and handle the situation. Our world, now more than ever is one: V for Volatile or volatile. Is about…
Do you have to finish a project that you left on stand-by, the deadline is getting closer and closer but you still haven't gotten around to it? Do you think that you are putting off tasks and do not finish them, even though you feel bad for not doing it? How much stress, guilt or frustration would we take off if we were able to do the ...
Do you know what are the obstacles that limit self-confidence? Confidence is not a personality trait. It is a personal analysis, it is the internal security that we can achieve what we have set out to do. If we are confident, we will also be motivated to push ourselves, invest time, and stick with our goals. Without trust is ...
In these difficult times, where many of our family members and the people around us are dying, where we are far from our loved ones, and we sometimes feel anxious and disoriented, different existential questions may appear: What is the point? All this? What is the point of suffering? What is the purpose…
I really like reading Susan David, specifically, her book "Emotional Agility". All of this psychologist's research focuses on how we can maintain a healthy relationship with our emotions in order to bring out the best in us. I am very interested in your idea (and I agree with it) that “we live in a…
They ask me to reflect on everything that is happening. I no longer want to talk about the infected and sick in the ICU, or working from home, or carrying equipment virtually or learning to live with children at home. They are all more than important issues, but I want to talk about what psychologists see ...
Lack of time, distractions, and stress influence our ability to stay focused. Sometimes, a vicious cycle occurs that is difficult for us to break: when we cannot focus on work due to distractions, we feel stressed because we are unable to be productive, and that stress in turn increases our incapacity ...
These are difficult times that we are living in these moments, and especially for those who have lost a loved one. Many cannot say goodbye to them, nor can they say goodbye as they would wish together to their family and friends. We want to dedicate this text to them and to those who accompany them at this time. ...
I wake up this morning listening to the news on television. I try to make this my only moment of the day in which I inform myself of the situation we are experiencing. I have realized that receiving messages every two by three on WhatsApp about the coronavirus and frequently watching news on ...
They are in times of tension and uncertainty, when it becomes especially important to have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in companies, such as the one we offer in Healthy Work. Right now, there are many employees who contact us because they do not know how to manage the anxiety that comes from being at home with ...
I'm reading a Harvard Business Review book on the latest research on happiness. I like it because, in addition to knowing the newest findings in neuroscience, it invites me to reflect (and questioning ourselves is extremely important). We think that being happy is being with a smile all the time, in a good mood ... in short, happy. But…
How quickly things change and how long it takes us to change processes and ways of doing to adapt to those changes! From Healthy Work we want to suggest that the division between private life and work life has stopped being what it was before. The importance of separating the two remains the same, but the ...
We reviewed the articles we uploaded to LinkedIn and found that those related to happiness receive the most attention. We all want to be happy but happiness is not the responsibility of family members, bosses or colleagues, it is only ours. It is a right, but it is not something that guarantees us life without working for ...
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? ...
It seems that today we live in the age of stress. Nerves, anxiety and stress are part of our day to day almost very naturally. The amount of daily tasks that we have to perform, the self-demands that we set ourselves or try to achieve the objectives we have in mind, we usually ...
Just a few decades ago, no one doubted the importance of the Intellectual Quotient (IQ) as a criterion of excellence in life. It was understood that the higher IQ, that is, the higher the cognitive intelligence, the more likely it was to succeed. But something changed. Thanks to various investigations, a new expression came onto the scene: emotional intelligence. Few know ...
As every year, from Healthy Work we have prepared a series of training pills to give visibility to the World Day for Health and Safety at Work, which is celebrated every April 28. The motto for this year 2019 is the following: "When the health of everyone in the company matters a lot to us". ...
Life is a wonderful journey, but luckily or unfortunately it is not a static journey. Change is inherent in life. Everything has a beginning and an end and the things that were yesterday, tomorrow may not be part of our present. Every change or circumstance in life gives us ...
We must banish the idea that all conflict is negative and destructive, and begin to think that productive conflicts generate value. Why? Because collaborating or working in a team becomes unnecessary if everyone agrees on everything. For example, let's look at the example of Apple. Its founders, Steve Jobs and ...
We are lucky to be able to participate in a meal at the Genova Financial Club with Rasmus Hougaard from Copenhagen Business College who has just published with Harvard Business Review the book The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your people and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results . We could not miss the blog channel ...
The more I dedicate myself to training and ensuring the quality of the Healthy Work employee assistance programs, the more I help as a clinical psychologist, mentor or coach, the more I realize the importance of accompanying those around us. If we accept (correctly) that we can never change to ...
One of the things that most prevents us from moving forward in life and causes us more suffering, is the difference that sometimes exists between reality and how we think it should be. The greater this difference, the greater the false expectations, the more unhappy we are. How much time do we spend idealizing things and ...
“It's like a jungle out there it makes me wonder how I keep from going under” (It's like a jungle out there and it makes me wonder how I manage not to sink). It's a line from an old rap song from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five that I remember often, and now more than ...
We all know what we want: to be physically and emotionally healthy. The difficult thing is, even knowing how to develop healthy habits. In our last blog we talked about the need to link our wishes and general motivations to the changes we want to make in terms of well-being. So we said that if we are motivated by idealism and help ...
Life is hard, but thank you for having an Employee Assistance Program. And this time I am not referring to the crises that really matter, the loss of loved ones, layoffs from work, children with drug or behavioral problems, chronic illnesses ... No, no. I mean day to day. I…
We all know what we want: to be physically and emotionally healthy. The difficult thing is, even knowing how to develop healthy habits, get on with it. We all have a hard time getting off the couch and exercising, eating lettuce instead of donut, or going to bed early when there is something interesting to read or watch on television. ...
Last week I spoke with a friend who works in a construction company. Interestingly, due to some personal technical questions, the subject of girders came up and gave me pause. I explain. He lectured me that if we were thinking of doing a home modification, we should respect these beams. For those who are not ...
If we think about it calmly, in most cases it is not great difficulties or major disasters or crises that undermine our capacities and our relationships. They are the little things that, neglected in time, bring out the worst that we carry inside and cause our relationships to fail. I put as an example, the ...
The routine fills us with obligations that make us stress many times without realizing it. If you follow these guidelines, it is possible to reduce it to improve our health and emotional well-being. Eat 5 meals a day and respect the schedules. Follow a diet with natural, little processed, fresh and seasonal ingredients. Stay hydrated during ...
What we think has a direct impact on how we feel and what we do, and therefore on our personal well-being. Many times we are not aware of how quickly negative thoughts and insecurity get out of our control. On other occasions, what happens is that when we ...
Physical health. If we are able to sleep well, eat healthy, not smoke, manage our stress and exercise (at least 20 minutes three times a week) we have everything done in this field. The thoughts. The reality is far from what we think. We create dozens of scenarios in our head to act in front of ...
We know that sometimes it is not easy to totally disconnect from work. On many occasions, we take tasks home with us outside of our usual hours and even during vacation periods. Taking calls or checking emails outside of work has become commonplace. So normalized is this habit today, that it exists ...
2017 is ending. Perhaps in this new year that begins, we will have to face changes: a new job, a new residence, or the end of a personal relationship. Because life is constant movement and change. Balance and imbalance. In general, all of us have a certain animosity towards changes, because ...
We have gotten used to stress. We have become so used to it that we have even developed a certain Stockholm syndrome, that is, many of us have a complicity relationship and a strong emotional bond with our captor. We know that stress increases the risk of cerebral ischemia: an obstruction of the blood flow ...
It seems easier to empathize with someone who is harassed, assaulted, or fired, than with the person on the other side. What happens if we empathize with the bully, with whom he fires, or with whom he yells at us and disrespects us? It is much more difficult. Can or should you empathize with "the bad guys"? The…
Just a few decades ago, nobody doubted the importance of the IQ as a criterion of excellence in life. At that time, all the debates were reduced to whether this quotient had a genetic origin or if, on the contrary, it was the product of experience. But something changed. Thanks to various investigations, he broke into ...
We have been hired to carry out a training activity in a large Spanish company for the customer service department. Due to a change of supplier, they are having difficulties to deliver the products as they would like and the customers are unhappy and come to complain to this department. Complaints are often of great violence, ...
“If we put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will immediately try to get out. But if we put the frog in water at room temperature, and we do not scare it, it remains calm. When the temperature rises from 21 to 26 degrees, the frog does nothing, and even seems to have a good time. As the temperature ...
Unfortunately, every two by three we see in the news natural disasters that hit our planet, terrorist attacks, accidents and other situations that have an impact on us. Most of us know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or various basic first aid techniques. But, do we know how to psychologically help a person in a crisis situation ...
For all of us who are culinary fans, the name “Can Roca” is not something unknown. The other day I was surprised listening to one of the brothers who owns the famous restaurant, Joan Roca. It doesn't shock me to see him on television (even though they have a very tight schedule), what he says in a way surprises me ...
Yesterday I read an email from a collaborator who suggests that we finally meet for lunch: work lunch. In the email he says that we could meet at the restaurant last time. I immediately answer that perfect. For some mysterious reason I reread the email a day later and realize that after ...
How difficult it is to put into practice the prayer of serenity: "Lord, grant me serenity to accept all that I cannot change, strength to change what I am capable of changing, and wisdom to understand the difference." How difficult when we have elderly people, who have taken care of us all their lives and now depend ...
We are in the age of customer service. When anyone can enter social networks or a website and upload a video that shows a good or bad service to describe their user experience, EVERYONE is scrutinizing EVERYONE. As companies, we need to "serve" our customers well if ...
It seems that this is what we hear when, in interviews with training managers, we propose the changes that are coming. We all talk about change management, but most of us think of small advances that require us to anticipate the market. The truth is that the one that is coming goes much further than a product being ...
From Healthy Work we have always remembered the importance that when it comes to sharing stress: - healthy life (sleep well, eat properly and exercise) - the support provided by social relationships (friends and family) - thoughts, management of the interpretations that we give of reality and concerns ...
The concern that exists today about the disappearance of multiple jobs as a result of the exponential technological development that awaits us is striking. In 2030, it is estimated that we will have lost five million jobs and employees will have 40% of skills that do not exist today. Big-data analytics, for example, will allow apps ...
It is difficult for me to understand how things, for me obvious, are not so for others. It happens to me with political ideas, with day-to-day events and it happens to me, especially with the difficulty that people have to appreciate the value of an employee assistance program. We all, we all go through difficult times in ...
Tired of us being clear that a doctor leaves when one has a headache, stomach ache, has a fever, breaks an arm or gets a cut. Tired of us being clear that you have to learn to perform a job. You have to learn English, mathematics, language and anything technical that ...
