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Can a leader be comfortable with discomfort?
Embracing discomfort enhances adaptability to change, creativity, motivation, self-confidence, joy, and stimulates intellectual growth.
Tamar Balkin
Mar 266 min read
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Should leaders take the time to indulge?
Researchers have found that adaptive indulgence not only boosts well-being and happiness but also aids individuals in recovering from the em
Tamar Balkin
Feb 196 min read
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What is the critical element in recovery and replenishment from work?
Recovery from work is essential for employees to remain energetic, engaged, and healthy, even under high job demands.
Tamar Balkin
Dec 4, 20246 min read
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Is There More To Motivation Than Meets The Eye?
Sadly, work tasks are not always fun, exciting or interesting, yet the leader is responsible for ensuring that they are completed.
Tamar Balkin
Jul 3, 20244 min read
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Are Values Always Helpful?
Values are an extremely useful map for life, yet the application of values in life and at the workplace can often be fraught.
Tamar Balkin
Jun 21, 20245 min read
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How Can Leaders Help To Reduce Loneliness At Work?
“It's a long road When you face the world alone No one reaches out a hand For you to hold You can find love If you search within yourself...
Tamar Balkin
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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Can We Bring More Confidence Into Our Decision-Making?
The complexity of decision-making isn't solely determined by the potential outcomes but also by the significance individuals attach to them.
Tamar Balkin
Mar 7, 20246 min read
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Is Psychological Empowerment A Valuable Tool For Enhancing Your Effectiveness As A Leader?
To have psychological empowerment employees need: skills, resources, authority, opportunity, motivation, responsibility and accountability.
Tamar Balkin
Feb 12, 20243 min read
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How Are You Going To Achieve Meaning And Purpose At Work In 2024?
“And you light up my life You give me hope To carry on You light up my days And fill my nights with song" You Light Up My Life by Whitney...
Tamar Balkin
Jan 25, 20243 min read
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Thank You For Your Support, I Hope You Have Learned Something Along The Way.
Through my light-hearted and practical blog, I aspire to contribute to making workplaces more enjoyable, challenging, and energising.
Tamar Balkin
Dec 20, 20232 min read
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Can Leaders Minimise The Likelihood Of Unethical Behaviour?
“Hey, white liar Truth comes out a little at a time And it spreads just like a fire Slips off of your tongue like turpentine And I don't...
Tamar Balkin
Dec 15, 20235 min read
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Who is looking out for you in a crisis?
Ongoing crises can break the psychological balance of leaders causing an increase in anxiety, changes in their cognitive response processes;
Tamar Balkin
Nov 21, 20234 min read
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Today Is "R U OK" Day. Are You Here To Hear?
This R U OK Day aims to encourage meaningful conversations about mental health and emotional well-being by really listening.
Tamar Balkin
Sep 14, 20233 min read
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What Can Leaders Do To Mitigate Cybercrime And Its Impact?
Cybercrime is an opportunity to look at the impossible, identify the vulnerabilities in the system and find a way through.
Tamar Balkin
Jul 18, 20237 min read
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How Do You Want To Enhance Your Leadership Capability And Wellbeing?
I share organisational psychology research into leadership, bust myths and fads, thought-provoking theories, and practical ideas.
Tamar Balkin
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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Is The Sabbatical A Furphy Or A Solution To Your Leadership Woes?
Despite appearing incongruous with the current state of the economy, recent research indicates that sabbaticals are the new vacation.
Tamar Balkin
Jun 28, 20235 min read
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Reflecting On The Past: A Help Or A Hinderance?
Effective leaders who drive progress, understand their organisation's history and use it to generate competitive advantages for all.
Tamar Balkin
May 10, 20234 min read
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Why don't leaders give good feedback?
“You don't know me How you think you know what's best for me?” Another Opinion by Meghan Trainor (Click here for the song) Personal...
Tamar Balkin
Mar 30, 20236 min read
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Effective Leaders Know The Secrets To Managing Negative Emotions At Work.
negative emotions at work are highly personal and complex, but if left unchecked they can cause significant distress.
Tamar Balkin
Mar 5, 20235 min read
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What Is Appropriate Humour In The Workplace And Can It Improve Wellbeing?
"I only wanna sing A song that's happy That's why I only wanna walk a street that's sunny I only wanna see the side that's funny" I Only...
Tamar Balkin
Feb 17, 20232 min read
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