A different stress response that you might not have heard of could be at play when people experience feeling nervous or apprehensive. In the workplace that may be before a meeting or a presentation, for example.
Until relatively recently nearly all animal stress response research was conducted on male animals. This changed in 2000 when Shelley Taylor observed a different stress response was happening in female humans and animals. She dubbed this response, “tend and befriend”, and it has been referred to by others as “appease”.
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A different stress response; when fight, flight, and freeze don’t apply.
Posted by Kitty Bertenshaw
Instant Messaging – Ultimate Control or Wellbeing Minefield ?
Posted by Doug Osborne
Instant messaging as a primary way of communicating is rapidly becoming the go-to way of keeping on top of business comms.
Here are some interesting figures:
43% of US companies – across all sectors – are using instant messaging as a primary means of comms, in some sectors like tech this figure rises to nearly 80%.
Hence in niche tech enclaves like the film media in Soho, London you won’t find desks with phones anymore. A leading creative from an established agency said,
We don’t need them…we can stay completely up to the moment on any project with a well organized Slack feed
So is email and actually speaking to people becoming something of a generational relic?