Christmas and New Year’s season are associate with joy and celebration, but also with increased workload & deadline pressures, social events and obligations, year-end performance reviews, and other aspects like family dynamics and financial pressures. These stressors can have an impact in your brain and trigger the release of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline.
Iliana Haro
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SAD is a type of depression that occurs at a specific time of the year, typically during the fall and winter months when there is less natural sunlight, and it improves with the change of season. However, for some people, it may be suffered during the summer. SAD can significantly impact employees’ productivity and general well-being during the holiday season.
Think for a minute about these persons: Taylor Swift, singer and advocate of artists’ rights; Nikola Tesla, inventor and engineer; Stephen Hawking, physicist and cosmologist. What might have these persons in common? Probably not too much, with the exception that they were or are self-sufficient.
The person who seemed lucky when, at 30, I was appointed as General Counsel of the Mexican subsidiary of a German automotive parts company. My thoughts on that? Surely, there must have been someone else better qualified for the position, but he didn’t go to the office that day. Therefore, […]
These are the wise words of Dr. Ramani, a mental health expert on navigating narcissism. Unfortunately, as a lawyer, running away from your narcissistic client, boss, colleague, judge, or any other person related to your legal practice only happens in utopia. Below is a summary of some strategies shared by Dr. Ramani […]
Did you know that positive conversations produce a chemical reaction in your brain? In a trusting conversation like the one between a coach and her client, the production of oxytocin, “the love hormone”, is activated which improves our ability to communicate, collaborate and trust others by activating networks in our […]
In western countries, when we visualize the image of a mother and her young child, we tend to see a picture of what society expects from a mother: unconditional love, tenderness, attention, tolerance, patience, care, wisdom, even friendship… the list can be endless. However, it is rarely taken into account […]
If an agile organization had a personality of its own it would probably be the one of the Cheshire Cat: “I am not crazy, it is just that my reality is different from yours…” The dear and trickster Cheshire Cat, even though appears to be mad, actually gives strong glimpses of […]
From time to time I receive requests from ex-colleagues and friends associated with talent acquisition or with legal departments asking me for help to find specific candidates to fill their legal positions. Usually the requests go like this – “Could you share this position on your LinkedIn page? I have […]
I recently came across an article that very enthusiastically promoted the implementation of a Board of Directors whenever a company wanted to become as big as one of the leading web search engines corporations. Along with some of the benefits that a Board may bring to a company, the article […]
For years as an employee or General Counsel, who sadly had no knowledge at all on human resources matters, was hard to argue and convince HR specialists that annual performance appraisals were, at times, simply not working for us, and on the contrary they were intoxicating our working environment, either […]
