From Functioning to Flourishing

Tested, practical strategies for health, happiness, and success at work

Michelle McQuaid

3 Ways to Make Receiving Feedback Easier

Learn how you overcome the triggers that make receiving feedback challenging at work in order to maximize your opportunities for learning and growth.

Can You Become Anti-Fragile?

How to be more anti-fragile as the uncertainty and disruption in many workplaces continue.

6 Tiny Ways to Support Teacher Well-Being

With all that teachers have to juggle, how can we make it easier for them to care for their well-being?

Can You Make Movement More Joyful?

Surprising findings about how even small exercises can fuel a sense of connection, courage, and hope.

Are You Talking Honestly About Racism?

Learn how you can create safe spaces to talk more openly and honestly about the realities of racism in your workplace, so you can practice racial empathy together.

Can You Unlock the “Secret Weapon” to Worker Wellbeing?

Research reveals how leaders can have a significant impact on worker wellbeing by using the power of small acts, care, compassion, and appreciation.

Why Don’t American Workers Want to Go Back to Their Offices?

Discover why only 21.6 percent of American workers told us they were feeling positive about going back to work, and how workplaces can turn this number around.

How Are You Co-Creating the “New Normal” in Your Workplace?

With only 21.6 percent of workers feeling positive about returning to workplaces post COVID-19, how you can help people feel more engaged, energized, and productive?

Are You Struggling to Make Meaning at Work?

Can expressive writing help you understand your thoughts and emotions during transitions and struggles? Learn some simple tips for writing your way to better health.

Do You Feel Safe to Struggle?

4 practical steps we can take to get more comfortable with struggle.

Can You Stay Physically Distanced and Socially Connected?

6 small evidence-based ways to build connection during this challenging time.

Can You Thrive in the Midst of Struggle?

With only 10.7% of Australian workers consistently thriving at this time, find out how can we better support workers' well-being.

Are You Struggling to Care for Your Well-Being at Work?

Are you feeling a little overwhelmed and worried right now? Here are some bite-sized tips you can use to effectively care for your well-being.

Do You Know the SMART Way to Ask for Help?

Do you struggle when it comes to asking for help at work? Here are some ways to make SMART requests.

Can You Spread Well-Being Through Your System?

Dr. Peggy Kern shares how improving well-being at the levels of “me," “we,” and “us” can help people thrive more consistently.

How Tiny Habits Trump Motivation and Willpower

Do you wish you had more motivation? Tiny habit changes can help improve your well-being.

3 Small Hacks for a Healthy New Year

You can make small changes to eat wisely, move more, and sleep well.

3 Simple Hacks for Building Healthy Habits

Do you need some healthy habit hacks? Here's how to create and sustain good habits to support well-being.

Is Workplace Drama Wearing You Down?

Are you leaking emotional energy unnecessarily at work? In this article, we explore ways you can shift emotional dramas at work.

Do You Need More Happy Brain Chemicals?

Can we train our brains for more happiness? The answer is yes. Here are four ways to do it.

Is Negativity Wearing You Down?

Are you protecting yourself from entering a negativity vortex? Here are some simple hacks to improve your self-regulation at work.

Are Wellbeing Practitioners Burning Themselves Out?

Could it be true that well-being practitioners are the people least likely to take care of themselves?

What’s the Cost of Loneliness in Your Workplace?

Studies have suggested that an epidemic of loneliness at work is underway. But is loneliness really a problem?

3 Ways to Make the Most of Stress

Have you been wishing you felt less stressed at work lately? Are our levels of stress really the problem?

Is Your Workplace Thriving?

Is the emotional culture in your workplace quite negative or toxic? In this post, Mandy O’Neill shares how to improve your organization's emotional culture.

Does Your Workplace Need a HERO?

Are people in your workplace feeling increasingly overwhelmed, exhausted, and at risk of burning themselves out? They’re not alone.

Four Ways to Tame Your Anxiety

Are you struggling to manage your levels of anxiety at work? So what can you do to tame your anxiety if it’s undermining your well-being and performance at work?

Are You Making These Feedback Mistakes?

When it comes to giving someone at work feedback, do you tend to step up—or step away?

Does Your Workplace Value Competition or Collaboration?

When it comes to getting ahead in your organization, is it a case of survival of the fittest, or the survival of the kindest?

Does Your Workplace Need More Change or More Stability?

Does the prospect of change leave people in your workplace groaning? With the rate of technological change now outpacing our ability to adapt, it’s easy to understand why.

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