They say that laughter is the best medicine. Humour and wit can be found all around us – even now when it seems there isn’t much to laugh about. But […]
What is in my control?
You may be familiar with the serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,courage to change the things I can,and wisdom to know the […]
Work Hack #3: Is it important, or just urgent?
In any given day it is inevitable that there is more work in front of us than can be completed in that day, far far from it. So we need […]
Bullet Journaling
Our guest blog today is from Helen Davies in the Timetabling team, who shares insight into her practice of bullet journaling, as well as letting us peek inside the covers […]
Music and Motivation
Whenever I’m about to start a mundane, repetitive, boring yet necessary task, my first instinct is to ‘jack into’ my ultimate playlist and bop along to my favourite tunes. Without […]
Work Hacks #2 – Managing Your Inbox
We all have days where all we seem to do is try to battle the ongoing wave of emails. Maybe this is every day for you. So many emails are […]
Work Hacks #1 – Pomodoro
A number of our blogs have mentioned a productivity technique called Pomodoro. So we thought that, for the first of our occasional series of Work Hacks, we would look at […]
Working with a 2-Year-Old at Home … in Lockdown!
Hello! I’m Margaret Ayers, Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development. Like many of you I’m trying to continue my job whilst also having to care for a child at […]
Looking after You – Sleep
Whilst there is of course a focus in so many of our conversations and thinking at the moment about how we can work smart and be productive, there is the […]