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Women in leadership: Six traits of mentally tough businesswomen

By taking a new perspective and acting decisively, I have seen how women are able to overcome whatever challenges they face At some point in life, anyone can experience a critical moment that serves as a measure of mental toughness. Whether it’s dealing with a toxic colleague or friend, a dead-end in one’s career, or […]

How to create a healthy work-life balance

We often struggle with finding the perfect balance between work and life, because we fail to understand that work is a part of our life and not ‘our life’. The recent times have surely tested us in managing work and wellbeing. During the pandemic, a whole lot of our clients as well started prioritizing their physical and […]

Top corporate wellness trends shaping the workplace of tomorrow

With burnout, presenteeism and psychological safety becoming more common in our workplace discussions, we call upon the industry to join us to inspire a paradigm shift where workplace wellness becomes the solid foundation for an organisation’s talent management strategy It is no secret that Covid-19 has pivoted the corporate world. With heightened health consciousness, another […]

Men, We Need to Talk…

I used to wonder what it meant to be a man, to be manly; I still do to some degree. I grew up with a very strong dad, one that had to fight his way through adolescence as a Pakistani expat in London. He was tough, with a set of ideals that dictated that men […]

Emotional Acceptance: Not Feeling OK is Perfectly OK

For as long as I can remember, we have been indirectly taught by our social construction NOT to feel negative emotions. From a very young age, we get emotionally invalidated in so many ways until that becomes our norm. We get told not to cry or not to get angry, which teaches us to avoid […]

How stress among the ultra-rich in the UAE compares globally

Compared to most regions, companies in the UAE have done more in the past year to encourage wellbeing among employees, in part by re-evaluating existing working models High-net-worth individuals in the UAE are more stressed than their ultra-wealthy counterparts in other regions, with 96 percent reporting at least one symptom of mental stress, compared to […]

Why mental health in the workplace is a Dickens of an issue

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

Why are UAE workers so stressed and how can bosses help?

Mimi Nicklin, CEO and founder of Freedm, a new creative agency that aims to change their burnout-ridden industry, joins AB Talks to discuss new Cigna research which showed UAE employees are among the most stressed in the world.   Published by Arabian Business on Wednesday 22nd September 2021 03:28 PM.