GETTING TO KNOW YOU
was important, I realised we need
to start paying attention to our
brain health from our earliest
years. Staying in general practice,
much as I loved it, was preventing
me from getting the message
of brain health out to a wider
audience. So I took the somewhat
scary decision to start a new
career promoting brain health and
better thinking skills.
What types of customers do
you help? What experience
do you have helping small
business customers?
My customers include the general
public who are hungry to find out
more about how their brain works,
educators who want assistance
for themselves and their students
to enhance learning, resiliency
skills and stress management
and SME’s and corporates who
have come to realise that a happy
healthy workforce is good for
higher productivity, performance
and profit.
One of the biggest challenges
facing many of my clients in
small business is managing
organisational change. Providing
insight into why some resist
change, why it can be tricky to
achieve the desired change and
how to nudge people towards
acceptance can alleviate a lot
of the fear and anxiety felt on all
sides.
Other times my work has been
around managing energy levels at
work and how to switch off. Over
busy, over stretched brains that get
stressed find it hard to slow down,
so sometimes I provide tools and
strategies for slower thinking to
enhances clarity and focus and
reduce stress.
People skills, effective
communication, developing a work
culture where people want to come
to work and do their job well, is
January 2016
ModernBusiness
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