For many people in pressurised jobs, Sunday nights are the toughest. Sleep is disrupted and it is hard to relax because of the week ahead. What if there was another way, to manage your stress levels better?

Being a leader is one of the hardest things to do. You may not have realised it at first, but becoming a Team Leader isn’t just a change in responsibilities. It is a change in STATUS. How you are perceived by others, and how YOU perceive yourself.

Making the decision to talk to someone about your thoughts and feelings can be one of the best choices you ever make. It can help you learn more about yourself and make deliberate, conscious choices without repeating old patterns.

Death and Bereavement - the biggest taboo at work? It can be so difficult to think clearly and know what to do after losing someone, while trying to stay focused and motivated in your job.

Relying on the resilience of your employees is only going to take you so far. The recruitment industry ALWAYS bounces back, and I have no doubt that it will do so again in 2026. But...you HAVE to look after your people.

Even if we have 20 colleagues who we get on well with, if there is ONE who we find difficult then they can take up so much of our thinking, our time and our emotional energy.

I find it fascinating to see how the lexicon we use as a society is always shifting, enabling us to describe mental health in more nuanced ways.

As a leader, you will already know that some situations clearly call for Carrot, and some for Stick. But what about the AMBIGUOUS ones, when the solution is less clear?

If you would describe your work as "crazy busy" right now, how are you looking after yourself, mentally, emotionally AND physically?

The fact that some people want more counselling in the summer, while others want less, tells me that everyone is affected in different ways by the summer period.

Every experience we had growing up helped create the blueprint for our lives today. The career you chose, how you work with others, how motivated you are to earn money - everything is influenced somehow by our past.

The word ‘should’, and our internal belief system about the ‘right’ way to do things, comes from our Superego, which has been formed over the course of our lives through our parents, our upbringing and our schooling.