Finding Your Crunch Point: How Leaders Navigate Pressure Without Breaking
Publication: Leadership Performance | Leadership Pressure | Stress Management
Picture this scenario… You’re three weeks out from a major deliverable. Your calendar has no white space. Two of your direct reports have flagged issues that need your attention. A senior leader has just added a last-minute meeting for Monday morning. Your inbox is filling faster than you can clear it, and every conversation seems […]
Associations Now: The Case for Mindful Leadership
Publication: Mindful Leadership | Stress Management | Time Management Skills
Thanks to Associations Now and contributing editor Mark Athitakis for inviting Michelle to share her insights on the case for mindful leadership. Michelle highlights how leaders can enhance their time management skills and become more aware of managing inner stress to lead with greater calm and effectiveness. The end of the year is always […]
Fast Company: 6 Strategies of Mindful Leaders Who Make a Greater Impact
Publication: Leadership Impact | Mindful Decision Making | Mindful leadership strategies | Productivity Tips | Stress Management
In this leadership development article for Fast Company, Michelle, a leadership development speaker, shares 6 strategies used by mindful leaders for greater impact, highlighting mindful leadership strategies, stress management, productivity tips, and mindful decision making. In the typical working day, leaders juggle multiple priorities, stakeholders, and decisions, which can lead to cognitive overload. Cognitive overload […]
Inside Retail: Three mindfulness and meditation techniques to manage work stress
Publication: Mindfulness & Meditation | Stress Management | Workplace Wellbeing
With thanks to Inside Retail , Michelle Gibbings, a senior leadership mentor, shares her top mindfulness and meditation techniques to manage work stress. She explains how practices like mindfulness, attention-based meditation, and self-compassion exercises can help employees and leaders reduce anxiety, stay focused, and maintain wellbeing in high-pressure work environments. It’s 10:45am on a Tuesday, […]
Ten things you can do to make a ‘bad day’ better
Publication: Mindfulness Practices | Resilience Strategies | Stress Management
Bad days. Crap days. Days when you don’t feel like getting out of bed, or wish you hadn’t. We all have them, as they are a fundamental ingredient of life. Think about it for a minute: if every day you had was great you’d never truly appreciate those great days. You’d likely take them for […]