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Tips To Reduce Employee Stress

Could your employees be struggling with stress? Have you noticed employees taking more time off than usual? Or has there been a drop in productivity? Or a dip in workplace morale? Perhaps one of your employees has told you outright that they are feeling stressed? Many factors can trigger stress. Family commitments, relationship problems and illness are all popular causes of stress. But what if your employees are suffering from work-related stress? Unfortunately, work-related stress is a growing concern. In the UK, more than 11 million working days are lost every year due to work-related stress. Plus, more than half a million people in the UK have experienced significant work-related stress that has affected their health. The Impact Of Work-Related Stress If your employees are struggling with work-related stress, it will impact their performance in the workplace. Prolonged work-related stress can also impact the physical and mental health of your team, leading to burnout and lengthy...

Lee Chambers on BBC Radio Leeds: Career Confidence, Mindset and Resilience

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Lee Chambers on talkRADIO - WFH Productivity, Colour Psychology, Wellbeing At Home

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Your Guide To Simplifying Supplements

The UK boasts of one of the most diversified food selections in Europe. If you analyse the food selection in your local supermarket, you will be amazed by the wide variety of consumables available. However, despite this diversification, the UK still suffers from cases of micronutrient deficiency, mainly due to poor eating habits. Some good news, though, is that you can use nutrient supplements to cater to your deficiencies. Supplements contain nutritional elements that top up on the nutrients missing in your diet. Here are a few guiding tips if you are yet to decide whether to take over your supplement’s journey or not. Supplements and Plant-Based Vegetarian and Vegan Diets A report conducted in 2019, State of the Nation: Dietary Trends in the UK , unveils that the popularity of plant-based, vegetarian and vegan diets have tremendously risen in the past 20 years. Although these diets are considered healthy, they miss some essential elements such as iron, omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin...

How To Focus Your Attention and Prevent Burnout with Digital Minimalism

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Here are my musings on how we can take back control of our attention and place it where we can flourish as humans. With extracts from ‘Digital Minimalism’. “Declaring freedom from your smartphone is probably the most serious step you can take toward embracing the attention resistance. This follows because smartphones are the preferred Trojan horse of the digital attention economy.” Cal Newport   YOUR ATTENTION IN A LOPSIDED ARMS RACE “The fact that our humanity was routed by these tools over the past decade should come as no surprise. As I just detailed, we’ve been engaging in a lopsided arms race in which the technologies encroaching on our autonomy were preying with increasing precision on deep-seated vulnerabilities in our brains, while we still naively believed that we were just fiddling with fun gifts handed down from the nerd gods. When Bill Maher joked that the App Store was coming for our souls, he was actually onto something. As Socrates explained to Phaedrus in...

Essentialise’s Lee Chambers Finalist in Young Entrepreneur Awards

Our very own Founder Lee Chambers has been shortlisted as a finalist for two Lancashire Business View Awards. Last week had been a celebratory one for our founder Lee Chambers, as both him and his company, Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing , have been selected as finalists in categories of the Lancashire Business Views Sub36 awards. Designed to recognise achievement and impact by young entrepreneurs, the awards are highly valued and much coveted in the North of England. This year, with the current medical guidelines, they have designed an interactive digital ceremony that will take place on the 22nd of October.   While the format may have been changed from what was originally planned, the awards intend to generate a larger audience than previous years and have been sponsored by prominent companies including Positive Pennine and Sales Geek. Lee Chambers has been shortlisted as a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year, and his business, Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing, which speciali...

Wellbeing Lancashire - Matt Gibbs

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