Work Wellbeing

Sections

  • How to Stay Motivated During Your Job Search

    Some of you will have been fortunate enough to have moved swiftly and effortlessly between jobs, perhaps even headhunted, without any formal job search. For most of us though, at some point or other, we will be in active job-seeking mode. So, how do you stay motivated?
  • Has Work-Life Balance Finally Become Life-Work Balance?

    It would be easy to give a list of tips to improve work-life balance – but surely the place to start is discerning what work-life balance actually is, and whether ‘life-work’ balance would be a more appropriate moniker in the twenty-first century.
  • Flexible Working - a Career Trap or the Holy Grail?

    From the rise of flexitime to homeworking, flexible working strategies are receiving some serious airtime in the auditing and accounting arena. But could it impact your career growth?
  • Auditing Culture

    As corporate misconduct continues, from the bad old days of Enron, to the more current examples of Volkswagen, Nissan and NAB foreshadowing the dark side of business in the event of compliance failures; there is an overwhelming need for corporate culture to be added to the internal audit workload.
  • Dealing with Difficult Bosses

    Micromanager? Dictator? Bully? Favouritist? Incompetent? Bad bosses come in many forms and if you don’t address the issue, working for them could have a severe impact on both your job performance and mental wellbeing.
  • Audit Advantage: Self Esteem

    Self confidence, self belief, self regard, self assurance, self worth and self efficacy. We’ve discussed all of these previously on these pages. But how are they different from self esteem and why does self esteem merit its own article?
  • Audit Advantage: Work overload

    Over the many years I have been coaching and mentoring, the standalone, hot, personal development topic of all time, has been, and still remains, the profound angst of the impossible workload.
  • Audit Advantage: Anxiety, the Auditor’s Ally?

    This article will suggest some diagnostics, tips and techniques to manage your anxiety, but also pose the vexing question: when, if ever, can anxiety be an auditor’s ally?
  • Audit Advantage: Impostor Syndrome

    How do you describe your progress, your success, your achievements? Ever ascribe them to ‘just good luck’, ‘being in the right place at the right time’, ‘sheer hard grind and hanging on in there’?
  • Audit Advantage: Resilience, Rebooted

    Resilience - What does it mean to an auditor? Join us as we run through our 10 step programme to being a resilient auditor.
  • How to Achieve Work-life Balance

    Work is an important, and large, part of our lives; as Auditors, we spend a staggering 99,000+ hours at work in our lifetimes. Because of this, it’s important that you feel you achieve emotional well-being and work satisfaction in your audit role.
  • How many Overtime Hours do you Work to earn your Holiday Entitlement?

    According to the Chartered Management Institute's recent report on 'The Quality of Working Life', you are likely having to work over 200 hours of overtime which cancels out the average holiday/bank holiday entitlement of 28 days per year.
  • Why 'Try' is Your Biggest Lie

    'Tis the season of new year resolutions... here's our number one tip for making your goals a reality!
  • Emotionally Intelligent Email

    I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again, but are you aware that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is more critical to your professional success than the intellectual variety?
  • Down with the Delegates

    It's crazy conference season and as a veteran circuit speaker, this is the peak time of my working year. Closely akin to the external auditor's January equivalent (those of us with the glut of December year ends and insane international reporting deadlines), it feels like a full twelve months ar...
  • DANGER: CONTAGION!

    You know how it is when someone in your office starts coughing and sneezing? You're sympathetic, offer them some kind words of commiseration, but all you can really think of is 'please don't give it to me'.
  • Detox, De-clutter, Decompression

    Are you carrying around a whole lot of mental clutter? Try this exercise to help clear your mind and hone your focus.
  • When Fiction makes a better job of the truth

    I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know. These words represent a crucial first step towards achievement, success, and the realisation of full potential.
  • Summertime Blues

    Here we are, full bodied summer. Facebook is alive with golden sands and jubilant families, the light is bright, the sun is (mostly) shining and the days are long enough for life after work.
  • Open Plan, Open War... on Hateful Habits

    There are many beneficial features of communal working, but the less palatable aspects, will also rapidly surface as a result of being in a confined space with other representatives of our diverse species.