Your weekend is fading as Sunday progresses into night and the thought of starting another week of work fills you with dread and lethargy. As well as meeting your fundamental need for an income, work can be enjoyable, provide for great satisfaction and can positively impact happiness and wellbeing, yet many of us endure an unsatisfying job for a range of reasons. The good news is, there are some simple things you can do to say goodbye to those Sunday night blues

I have been in HR leadership roles for more than 20years with a number of large complex global and national corporations including IBM, PwC, General Motors Holden, Government and NAB. A practitioner of Positive Psychology with deep expertise in career and capability development, organisational development, change management and learning. Currently, I’m an author and run my own coaching and consulting business helping teams and individuals develop and change careers.

Those hardest hit by sudden forced changes to their work is not determined by their skills, qualifications, experience or income level, but often by how people construct their sense of identity. A person’s work identity can help them advance through adversity or it can be their undoing, it can make or break them. Supporting the closure of an automotive manufacturer, I witnessed first-hand how it was often those whose sense of identity was so heavily tied to their work that when work was taken away, they no longer knew who they were without it. Being able to construct your work identity in a positive way will help you traverse the highs and the lows of any career.

Entire businesses or teams of people are now working from home and I applaud those organisations who are taking measures to attempt to stem the impact of the current health crisis.

Positive body image and benefits for consideration as part of health and wellbeing.