Are you a manager or a human resource’s manager? Do you sometimes wonder how to improve the performance of your team? Or how to help your team to have more focus on specific moments or tasks? This article is about some ideas to help you and your team to have more creative breaks and consequently to be more focus when it's needed, helping you and your team with ideas for a good and effective stress management. “Unlike your cell phone, which popular wisdom tells us should be depleted to zero percent before you charge it fully to 100 percent,...

“Csikszentmihalyi says that when challenges exceed our skills, we feel anxiety; when our skills exceed challenges, we feel boredom.” And Hans Selye, one of the founding fathers of stress management research, said: "Stress is not necessarily something bad – it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental." When a person’s physiological response to an external stimulus that triggers the "fight-or-flight" reaction, is called stress. " Fight-or-flight " is a term used to describe when our organism experiences a shock or perceives a threat, and...

People Analytics a sophisticated analyses of big data together with Real-Time monitoring systems is like an omnipresent science that can be a predictive tool to predict and prevent staff behavior, helping to recognize when is time to take a break and avoiding Mental Fatigue, burnout, and other overwork associated problems. “Predictive analytics transcends human perception (...)” (Siegel) The reality in Human Resources management is being rethought. Why? Because Companies want to be able to “Describe ('What happened?'), Diagnostic ('Why did it happen?'), Predict ('What will happen?') or Prescript ('What should happen?')”. Something like an “intelligent platform”, that...

The “back-to-work blues” don’t qualify as a formal syndrome but are a commonplace with workplace stress a significant source of anxiety and depression in the lives of all. “A senior lecturer at Macquarie University, Barbara Griffin, said research indicated the blues were linked to sadness that pleasurable activities were over, and changes in food, alcohol and sleeping patterns during holidays.” “In the short-term, the effect of holidays does tend to wear off after three weeks to a month,” she said. “The fade-out effects are quicker if we face a lot of work when we get back”. If you happen...

Libby Kane wrote in Business Insider a curious article on how 2 seemingly obvious questions can get you the most productive work days: 1- What is most important right now? and What do you feel like doing? Here is how answering these questions can improve your productivity: on the first question, this is dictated by your project managing and task managing system. First, she recommends to list the most important tasks and then introduce a secondary parameter for evaluation of the priority such as Deadlines, people waiting, and when will you see the return on your effort. We would suggest...