In the quest to understand what makes teams truly exceptional, Google's Project Aristotle revealed a profound insight that challenges traditional notions of workplace performance. The number one predictor of team success isn't about individual...
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The Soulful Psychologist
Niamh regularly writes new articles from her experience as both a psychologist and corporate coach bringing together the science, mental health and emotional intelligence.
Can Supporting your Managers Improve your Engagement Levels?
Most employees (77%) aren't engaged, accounting for $8.9 trillion in lost productivity worldwide. But employee engagement is driven more by great managers than by countries' labor policies or job markets. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace...
Why Workplace Relationships Matter
Studies have shown that when people don’t know how to connect emotionally, they can’t collaborate, communicate and solve complex problems effectively. In other words, unless you can successfully bond with the people you work with, you cannot...
Holding Space
Are you Emotionally Responsive? How comfortable are you at holding space for someone? We lead such busy lives that we frequently jump into action and ‘fix-it’ mode when someone presents a problem or difficulty – often cutting off the emotions that...
When did you last step outside your Comfort Zone??
We all have a comfort zone - some are much larger than others. The things that make us feel a little nervous are just outside our comfort zone. The things that make us panic? Waaay outside. The thing is that if we just stay comfortable, we never...
Breaking Through Your Limiting Beliefs
Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough? Or that you’re not worthy? Or maybe you need to be in control of everything even though deep inside you’d love to let go? I was interviewed by Lucy Gernon about Breaking Through Your Limiting...
What is Coaching?
What is Coaching? The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as: “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.” The idea being, that...
Finding Meaning in Life & Work
More and more I’m hearing from people that they want to feel their life has some meaning. They want their work to make a difference, and to have a positive impact. Amidst all the darkness of war, inflation, and one crisis after another; people are...
The Importance of a Future Focus for our Wellbeing
I was interviewed recently by Patrice Harrington for The Sunday Independent Life magazine about the helpfulness to our mental wellbeing of having a future focus rather than a past focus (as is often the case in therapy). Read the full Interview...
Introducing… your Shadow.
“Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside of you is only a reflection of the world inside of you.” – The Minds Journal Are you scared of your own shadow?! We all have parts of...