When smart and ambitious people find themselves in an environment where they are penalised for their achievements, this increases their stress and damages their work effectiveness. They will be less committed to the organisation and 70% of them will either leave or be seeking to leave. This is damaging both to the individual and to the organisation.

We will all be underestimated from time to time. Some people I speak with say that it occurs every day of their professional lives. It's hard not to feel worn down if we're continually underestimated. What's important, is how we respond.

Regardless of what your official hours might be, creating and maintaining appropriate boundaries around your time and space is vital to keeping happiness levels up, stress levels down and maintaining healthy relationships at work and at home.

How we set boundaries in our professional and personal lives has a big impact on our energy and our ability to do our best work. If you let your work continually overrun your personal time and space, in the long-term this will negatively impact your health, your work performance and your overall career success.

There’s recently been a lot of focus on the apparent 'talent shortage' but are we ignoring the full capability of the people we already have?

There's no doubt that people around the world are feeling depleted right now. It's been a tough few years of crisis upon crisis. It's perhaps no surprise then, that people are choosing to leave organisations where they don't feel nurtured.

What if instead of focusing on what we can extract, we focused on what we could generate?

Productivity is important as a measure of performance - for machines and production plants. However, it's flawed, if not a bit lazy, to apply the same measures to people.

A common catch-cry of many organisations, and their leaders, is that ‘people are our greatest assets’. However, as leaders it’s not acceptable to treat our people like machines, or as mere economic artefacts.