Resilience at work is usually treated as a quality individuals should have more of. It’s better understood as a team’s capacity to recover between demands, which is built through how work is designed and led rather than through training people to withstand more. This article explains why most resilience training changes little and what does make a difference.

Your best team is delivering. Deadlines are being hit, clients are happy, and the numbers look right.

They are also three months into a pace nobody has described out loud as unsustainable, and the first thing to go will be the thing nobody is measuring.

I’m Drew Fobbester, a hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and corporate transformation consultant working in leadership, high...

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Smart, articulate teams still misunderstand each other. It’s rarely about intelligence or effort. More often, it’s about what happens in the space between what someone means, what they say and what another person hears.

We have more ways to communicate at work than ever: email, Teams, Slack, Zoom and now AI tools that can draft, summarise and respond for us. So why do teams miscommunicate more than ever, rather than less? More communication doesn’t necessarily mean better communication.

We can be in the same meeting and leave with completely different interpretations. A neutral message can sound abrupt. A conversation can feel fine in the moment, only for tension to appear later.

So what gets in the way? Often, it’s not the words. It’s everything happening...

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Neurodivergent adults consistently report higher rates of anxiety and depression than their neurotypical peers, which makes this an area managers genuinely can’t afford to get wrong. This article explores what struggling looks like for a neurodivergent team member, and what supporting neurodivergent employees realistically involves for a manager.

World Mental Health Day exists to widen the conversation about mental health at work. This year’s theme is ‘Lived Experiences Heard,’ and it matters particularly for neurodivergent employees, whose experience of struggling often looks nothing like the standard advice managers are given.

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Team misalignment rarely looks like conflict. It looks like a group working hard, hitting deadlines and still falling behind, because each person is quietly operating from a different picture of the goal, often the single most common reason a team with good people and good tools underperforms. This article explains what causes it, how to spot it early, and what actually rebuilds a shared picture the whole team can see themselves in.

You’ve sat in that meeting. Everyone nods, the plan sounds settled, and two weeks later three people are doing three different things, each convinced they were following what was agreed.

That is why ...

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Mindfulness at work is often mistaken for a break from the job: a breathing exercise, a moment of calm. In a professional context it’s closer to a cognitive skill, one that shapes how people think, decide and lead under pressure. This article explains what the evidence actually shows and what it looks like in practice.

Most people picture a yoga studio or a guided breathing app when they hear the word mindfulness, something to reach for on a break rather than use during one. That association isn’t wrong, but it undersells what’s actually being asked of people at work every day: to notice what’s pulling their attention, and choose where it goes instead.

I’m Katie Fobbester, a mindfulnes...

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High-functioning anxiety hides behind competence. This article explains why the traits that drive success at the top often mask what’s really going on underneath, what the pattern actually looks like day to day, and why willpower alone rarely resolves it.

From the outside, you look completely in control. You hit every deadline, lead with confidence, and rarely miss a beat. Underneath, it can feel very different: a constant low hum of worry, a racing mind before big meetings, an inner voice that’s never quite satisfied no matter what you achieve.

In my own practice, I see this pattern constantly among senior professionals, often in clients who, from the outside, appear to h...

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Do you find yourself counting down to your next holiday, only to spend most of it half-checked-out, and already dreading the return to your desk before you’ve even unpacked?

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone, and it’s not a sign of weakness. It’s one of the clearest signs of executive burnout.

In this article, I’ll explain what makes burnout different from ordinary stress, why high performers are especially prone to it, and how coaching, and where useful, hypnotherapy, can help you recover, and stay well, long term.

What Executive Burnout Actually Is

Burno...

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You got good at your job. Really good. You mastered the technical side, built credibility, delivered results. And now someone is suggesting it is time to move up.

So why does that feel less like an opportunity and more like a threat?

If you are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD, the answer might be simpler than you think. Most promotions eventually require managing people. And most neurodivergent professionals have not yet had the support to fully understand who they are in relation to others, let alone how to lead them.

Don’t get me wrong. Most managers and leaders are not taught to manage or lead. But as a ...

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Do you find it difficult to switch off, even when your working day is over? 

You may notice your mind keeps running, moving from one thought to the next, reviewing tasks, anticipating problems or reminding you of what still needs to be done. Even during downtime, there can be a sense that you should be doing something more productive. 

For many people, stress doesn’t appear as a sudden breakdown. It shows up as a persistent mental pressure: a feeling of needing to be constantly ‘on’. 

In today’s fast paced world, this state is increasingly common. If left unaddressed, it can contrib...

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