12 Feb 2024

The days when success was measured by the number of hours spent in the office are long gone. Modern workplaces recognise the importance of prioritising employee wellbeing to foster a positive work culture and drive sustainable performance. Managers play a pivotal role in creating a healthy environment where work-life…

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01 Feb 2024

Understanding unconscious bias is pivotal to tackling diversity and inclusion. It restricts our ability to make fair decisions and gets in the way of our seeing all the available information. Here’s more about it: It forms without our knowledge: Unconscious bias refers to the automatic and unintentional judgements we…

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29 May 2023

It can be a significant management challenge to maintain a healthy and happy team, especially in a semi-virtual ‘new normal’. Here are five considerations for managers to help foster employee wellbeing:   1. Mental health issues are prevalent. – One in six employees experience mental ill health in the…

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04 May 2023

In nearly every aspect of business, it is the manager that makes the biggest difference to performance. They play a singular role in the life and work of an employee. In fact, a research survey from Gallup shows that the quality of a manager accounts for 70% of the…

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25 Apr 2023

We need to reverse the misconception that failure is bad. Failure brings with it many lessons and provides opportunities for growth and development. It’s also impossible to innovate without sometimes failing along the way.  Lesson #1 – Failure brings knowledge Failure teaches us things. Thomas Edison famously failed nearly 1,000…

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20 Apr 2023

At Realise, we know that managers face a new raft of challenges since we have begun to live with the changes wrought by the global pandemic.  Here you’ll find practical advice on how to troubleshoot some of the unique demands managers are now tackling in this new hybrid/remote working…

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09 Feb 2023

Do you feel like your working days are draining but still somehow unproductive? We can spend many wasted hours trying to tick things off our to do lists but never achieve everything we want to. Luckily, there are some simple tools we can use to help us get the most…

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28 Nov 2022

Stress levels and burnout continue to rise, with some new data highlighting the crisis: 84% – Of workers reported at least one mental health challenge over the last year. (Lyra Health) 66% – The increase in common mental health conditions since the pandemic worldwide. (World Health Organisation, 2022) 61% – Of employees…

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07 Jun 2022

Modern life is taking away our ability to focus. Technology is fragmenting our time and concentration. With this, our productivity – alongside our cognitive and mental health – is being eroded. The below facts will help you take stock of the cost of these distractions. Through improving our concentration, we…

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05 Nov 2021

Do you think you are an expert multi-tasker? Well think again. Multi-tasking does not work and here we explain why. You’ll soon realise that ‘single-tasking’ is the way to go. You can’t actually do it The brain is not built for multi-tasking. When you think you are multi-tasking what…

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