Articles.

Dr Adam Fraser examines some commonly held beliefs about happiness and well-being and lists some easy changes you can make for a happier and and healthier life.

A challenge to leaders to look beyond their position and title and question how their leadership style is effecting their employees and the workplace culture.

Dr Adam Fraser debunks the myths about learning. Does a sterile, serious environment equal success in learning or is a more easy and relaxed approach the answer? Read on to find out!

Whether we are trying to loose weight or get our sales team to change their processes there is a simple change model that will help you change any behaviour.

This article makes you think a little deeper about the things in life that aggravate us, and how we can take the positives from them.

DEEPER SLEEP - 10 Step Guide to Achieving Quality Sleep Of all the things that affect our ability to be productive and efficient, our quality of sleep is probably the most important. Published in Great Health magazine May 2010

In a recent workshop I was training with a management team and I was asked the question, “I was watching the Australian Open, and there was a player who was just smashing the other player. The player was in front 5-2, serving for the match. Then they lost every game including the last set, 7-5. Why do some people choke in the face of winning?” Very interesting question! So why do people buckle under pressure?

I was recently asked by a law firm to come in and meet with one of their partners with a view to coaching him around his behaviour in the firm. I thought, “no problem”. I then asked why they wanted him to be coached. “Well he has gone through 18 junior lawyers in the last 6 years, and the last one that worked with him almost had a nervous breakdown” was the reply. Mmmmmm the alarm bells went off! This could be a bigger challenge than I thought.

Why do I offend people with my behaviour when my intention is good? I have never met a CEO whose intention was to drive down share prices, create a bad culture, or lose market shares. However, I have met many who have done this unintentionally! This article explores the importance of recognising the intention behind behaviour.

You only have to look at the climbing divorce rates to realise that our romantic relationships are suffering. Recently I had the pleasure of spending the day with Martin Seligman, somewhat of a guru in the psychology world. His view of marriage counselling was that it simply taught people how to argue better. In other words, the psychologist just shows them how to argue their point more effectively. Seligman’s view is that we should not focus on the the problem in relationships but start working on the positive side of the relationship. Click here to read more.