Recently at a People and Culture Conference, I was given a copy of the ‘Eight steps to happiness; the science of getting happy and how it can work for you’. Obviously being the nerd that I am, I was pretty excited as I had seen a few episodes of the TV show and was keen to read more. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s called Making Australia Happy, and...

Recently I was reading an article in the Harvard Business Review called “The Early Bird Really Does Get the Worm” in their ‘Defend your Research’ section. The Professor who was up was Biologist Christoph Randler (also see Why morning people rule the world) from Germany, whose research suggests that “people whose performance peaks in the morning are...

A few weeks ago, I posted a link via my LinkedIn page about R U OK? Day and the response from people was that they wanted to get involved and just hadn’t heard about it before. Working in the legal industry myself, its particularly important with a report from the Brain & Mind Research Institute, ‘Courting the Blues’ stating that mental illness is of...

Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to briefly drop into the Women, Management and Work Conference which was held at the Sofitel (you may have seen some of my tweets throughout the day). The quality and balance of the discussions taking place was fantastic. As you might have noticed from my Crustgate article, I’m not an extreme feminist however I would like...