What if burnout were taken as seriously as cancer?
Jen Fisher, Chief Well-Being Officer at Deloitte, wonders why people suffering from burnout are often less empathetic, understanding and feel judged.
Encourage your employees to take time off – and to travel
Are you also convinced that self-development is only possible if you take a training or find a coach? Wrong! To give yourself real opportunities for growth, you need something completely different and unexpected: vacation […]
The bliss point: the holy grail of the food industry
Have you ever experienced suddenly reaching the bottom of a bag of chips or wanting to snack on a bar of chocolate and being surprised to find that you already finished the whole thing? […]
Deconnect to Reconnect
The French say “reculer pour mieux sauter”: taking a few steps back to better jump forward. And there is definitely a lot of value in this statement.
Are you burned out? You’re not crazy, you’re human.
In June 2021, an interesting article by Lucy McBride, a physician in Washington, appeared in The Atlantic with the telling title “By now, burnout is a given”. In it, she describes how the pandemic […]
3 ways to ruin your brain
In the summer of 2018, I wrote a book entitled “From prosperity to happiness at work”. It examines what causes the stress and burn-out epidemic that we are seeing across the world today. Many issues […]
Your Goldilocks Brain and Sleep
How’s your sleeping? Sleep is one of those things we often pay little attention to unless you have a sleep disorder or have difficulty getting enough. What’s the link between our brain and sleep? […]
Brown-out: chronicle of an announced burn-out
People don’t develop a burnout overnight. Before you reach that point, you often get entangled in a brown-out. Discover how to recognize it here!
The smartphone: constantly connected … to stress
“What’s a telephone?” asks a 6-year-old boy. “It’s a mobile phone with a wire attached to it!” his slightly older sister proudly answers. “Grandma has one of those” she adds for clarification. I chuckle […]
The legal framework for well-being and happiness at work in Belgium
From safety and well-being at work to happiness at work As Belgians, we are world record holders in imposing administrative formalities. This is not a Tryangle statement, but a statement made by Prof. Jan Van […]
The ROI of a good smoke detector
In February 2019, the same headline made the news twice in quick succession: house burned down due to charging a battery at night. My attention was immediately drawn, because, just like the radio DJ […]
Burn-out and happiness at work in the 1950s
“A burnout? That didn’t exist when we were young!”Do your (grand)parents say that too?Could they be right?So is it just a trend, a hype?
What’s the deal with all this stress?
With all the stimuli that come at us at a rapid pace every day, our brains can become overloaded. In this article, we explain to you in a simple way what stress is and what impact long-term or chronic stress can have on our bodies.
The impact of the information revolution
Meanwhile, the technological (r)evolution is so impressive that we are inundated by a veritable tidal wave of available information. And this flow of information has also triggered something important around the introduction of the theme of ‘work happiness’.