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About Cris

Have you heard about those guest speakers and facilitators who go on and on about how wonderful they are? And then tell you how they ‘discovered’ the answer and now you can have it too (at a huge cost)?

Well, that’s not Cris. He believes that kind of talk disempowers people. And we’re here to excite and incentivise your people. He also has a healthy respect that everyone’s path is unique. As such, you should “walk your own walk”.

What does Cris mean by this? He’s had struggles (and still does). And he’s made a few mistakes. In fact, he believes in making mistakes every day, to learn and grow. But Cris also believes in learning from others. His journey has taught him some valuable shortcuts. Shortcuts that can help you (and others) avoid some of the pitfalls he’s experienced.

Cris has shared a stage with the likes of the Dalai Lama, Brené Brown and others. Their inspiration shaped the successful wellbeing practises that Cris now brings to workplaces.

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    31 Jan
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    LifestyleBy Cris

    How to Deal with Staff Turnover

    Staff turnover is inevitable and increasing so there are two approaches that employers can take. The first is to reduce it and the second is to get early warning and be prepared for it. In this blog, I’ll focus on the latter as just about everything has been written on the first. The main objective is to understand why staff could leave even if they’re (allegedly) happy.

    Essentially staff will leave if they have been at the same place for too long, have friends tell them how much better their job is, they get bored, they feel unloved, or they have personal issues not related to work.

    As an employer, you need to get “inside their heads” to get the early warning signals and get ready for their exit.

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    Here are the 5 tips to know to identify potential staff turnover:
    1. Tune into water cooler talk. Be in touch with the office chat and have a trusted source informing you of the latest information. Don’t ignore rumours especially regular ones.
    2. Follow your staff on Twitter and Facebook. Do regular checks and even join their chats where possible. People divulge information on Social Media about their work situation.
    3. Have an interest in their personal lives. Ask about their pressures and their family. Most work counselling deals with personal relationship problems.
    4. Know who their friends are, what they do, and who they work for. Keep track of any new associates who come onto the scene unexpectedly.
    5. Go with your gut instinct. If you believe something’s going on, there probably is. Be smarter than your employees and use every advantage to be one step ahead instead of one step behind.
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    17 Jan
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    LifestyleBy Cris

    Scatter your workload… actually and not literally

    Since the dawn of (business) time, there has been a push on efficiency, and rightly so, improved efficiency leads to higher productivity. As a businessman of more than 35 years you won’t get an argument from me about that.

    Lean Thinking was one of these efficiency processes. It was about having everything at your fingertips, being able to move from left to right is a systematic approach, and have things labelled so you could find them faster.

    Unfortunately, it’s not until we implement these ideas, that we find there is a downside. This can lead to sedentary behaviour, fatigue, and decreased productivity.

    We need a balance. What can we do to provide efficiency, but stop people sitting for prolonged periods of time? The answer could be to scatter things around the office so that people have to move more.

    Here are 5 simple ways to scatter your workload:
    1. Place the printer in a remote location. Often when we print something, it is at the end of an activity, so this provides a break between one project and another.
    2. Place mobile phones in a remote location. This has a dual effect of not having distractions as we work, along with having a clear delineation between office and out of office calls.
    3. Implement a “no eating at your desk” policy. I’ve covered this in an earlier blog, but in this case, it’s all about getting up and moving, rather than food appreciation.
    4. Have a “no internal emails” day. This is the same as above, but really about moving the legs and body, and building relationships. Remember that “motion creates emotion”.
    5. Have a coffee break. If you can, go to a local coffee shop outside of the building. This adds the extra element of getting some fresh air.
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    03 Jan
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    LifestyleBy Cris

    The Importance of Sleep

    One of the first things that suffer when we are under stress is sleep. We have one of the three things happen. Firstly, we can’t get to sleep. Secondly, we can’t stay asleep. Or finally we wake up tired…as if we’d never been asleep in the first place.

    So why do these things happen?

    In the first place it’s because we have personal issues. These arise when we get home and overtake anything that may have happened during the day. The reason we have trouble staying asleep is because we have so much happening at work that we wake up in the middle of the night with solutions that we don’t have time during the day to deal with. And finally, we wake up tired because of a combination of the above, along with the inability to take time out to regularly calm our mind.

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    Here are 5 tips to help you get more sleep:
    1. Be careful about what you eat and drink before going to bed. It’s not a good idea to do either an hour before bedtime. Your body needs processing time before it shuts down.
    2. Turn off all electronic equipment well ahead of your bedtime. Some people have been known to use social media in bed.
    3. If you wake up in the middle of the night, don’t open your eyes. Forget all of the bull**** about making lists. If it’s important it will still be there in the morning. Meditate back to sleep.
    4. When it’s time to wake up, then get up and go. Don’t hang around in bed as the world awaits. Jump straight into a hot shower for 5 minutes, turn it onto cold only, and then GO.
    5. Sleeping during the day is OK. Nana naps, power naps, or midday matinees, are now an acceptable way of recharging the batteries. Sleep Pods are being installed everywhere.
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