It’s a sad fact that stress is now part of our daily life, triggered several times a day, like when the kids refuse to eat breakfast, we’re cut off in traffic by a rude driver or we’re faced with a mountain of emails as we switch on our computer. Since it’s unlikely that the trials…

Having the ability to use small talk effectively is one of the most important and yet rarely acknowledged business tools for fostering business relations.  Small talk allows you to search for common ground and get a sense of who a person is before proceeding in a way that will make them comfortable and therefore make…

There is a considerable amount of anti-social media press to be found – ironically most often it is seen sliding across social media newsfeeds, nonetheless most of the information is true.  It is ruining relationships and causing us to covet the life portrayed by our friends through their gym attendance statuses and filtered pictures of…

There is an exciting and way overdue shift in the way people are working and it’s creating a flexibility that is increasing people’s control over their own lives and significantly decreasing stress levels.  It’s called telecommuting.  Approximately a quarter of the workforce in the United States allow some level of flexibility when it comes to…

On your mark! By the time you hear these words, your hand is jotting down ideas in the midnight hour, the business plan is finally taking shape, coffee mornings have taken their toll; but like a marathon runner you press on. You know you have to prepare or the road will swallow you up whole….