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Improving Communication Skills in Your Work & Personal Relationships
Improving Communication Skills in Your Work & Personal Relationships

Effective Communication

Effective communication sounds like it should be instinctive. However, all too often, when we try to communicate with others something goes astray. We say one thing, the other person hears something else, and misunderstandings, frustration, and conflicts ensue. This can cause problems in your home, school, and work relationships. For many of us, communicating more clearly and effectively requires learning some essential skills. Whether you’re trying to improve communication with your spouse, kids, boss, or coworkers, learning these skills can deepen your connections to others, build greater trust and respect, and improve teamwork, problem-solving, and your overall social and emotional health.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, development
Using Your Senses to Relieve Stress on the Spot
Using Your Senses to Relieve Stress on the Spot

Quick Stress Relief

Ever wish a stress superhero could save you from the tension of traffic jams, chaotic meetings, toxic work environments, arguments with your spouse, or a toddler’s tantrums? Well, you can be your stress-busting superhero. Using your senses, you can tap into the power to reduce the impact of stress as it’s happening and stay in control when the pressure builds. Like any skill, learning how to ease stress at the moment takes time, experimentation, and practice, but the payoff is enormous. When you know how to relieve stress quickly, you can stay calm, productive, and focused—no matter what life throws at you.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, development, workplace
Improving Your Ability to Handle Stress
Improving Your Ability to Handle Stress

Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes

Stress isn’t always severe. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. However, when you’re continuously running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price. If you frequently find yourself feeling frazzled and overwhelmed, it’s time to take action to bring your nervous system back into balance. You can protect yourself — and improve how you think and feel — by learning how to recognise the signs and symptoms of chronic stress and taking steps to reduce its harmful effects.

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Capability, IndustryFabian Hirosefashion, management, wellbeing, mentalhealth, development
Eat a brain-healthy diet when working in fashion environments
Eat a brain-healthy diet when working in fashion environments

6 Life-Changing Strategies to Boost Mood, Build Resilience and Increase Happiness while working in the fashion industry

4. Eat a brain-healthy diet to support robust mental health.

Unless you have tried to change your diet in the past, you may not be aware of just how much what you eat—and don't eat—affects the way you think and feel. An unhealthy diet can take a toll on your brain and mood, disrupt your sleep, sap your energy, and weaken your immune system. Conversely, switching to a wholesome diet, low in sugar and rich in healthy fats, can give you more strength, improve your sleep and mood, and help you to look and feel your best.

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Capability, IndustryFabian Hirosefashion, development, wellbeing, management, mentalhealth
Managing the stress levels of fashion
Managing the stress levels of fashion

6 Life-Changing Strategies to Boost Mood, Build Resilience and Increase Happiness while working in the fashion industry.

3. Learn how to keep your stress levels in check

Stress takes a heavy toll on mental and emotional health, so it is important to keep it under control. While not all stressors can be avoided, stress management strategies can help you brings things back into balance.


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Capability, Business, IndustryFabian Hirosefashion, wellbeing, development, management, mentalhealth
Physical Activity & Mental Health
Physical Activity & Mental Health

6 Life-Changing Strategies to Boost Mood, Build Resilience and Increase Happiness while working in the fashion industry.

2. Staying active is as good for the brain as it is for the body

The mind and the body are intrinsically linked. When you improve your physical health, you will automatically experience greater mental and emotional well-being. Physical activity also releases endorphins, powerful chemicals that lift your mood and provide added energy. Regular exercise or activity can have a significant impact on mental and emotional health problems, relieve stress, improve memory, and help you to sleep better.

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Capability, Industry, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, mentalhealth, development, management, wellbeing
Social Connections & Emotional Wellbeing in Fashion Systems
Social Connections & Emotional Wellbeing in Fashion Systems

6 Life-Changing Strategies to Boost Mood, Build Resilience and Increase Happiness while working in the fashion industry.

1. Make social connection a priority—especially face-to-face

No matter how much time you devote to improving your mental and emotional health, you will still need the company of others to feel and be your best. Humans are social creatures with emotional needs for relationships and positive connections to others. We are not meant to survive, let alone thrive, in isolation. Our social brains crave companionship—even when experience has made us shy and distrustful of others.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, development, management, mentalhealth, wellbeing
Building better mental health in the Fashion Industry
Building better mental health in the Fashion Industry

Strategies to Boost Mood, Build Resilience and Increase Happiness

Your mental health influences how you think, feel and behave in daily life. It also affects your ability to cope with stress, overcome challenges, build relationships, and recover from life’s setbacks and hardships. Whether you are looking to deal with a particular mental health problem, handle your emotions better, or only to feel more confident and energetic, there are plenty of things you can do to take control of your mental health—starting today.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, management, development, wellbeing, mentalhealth
Conflict Resolution In Fashion Systems
Conflict Resolution In Fashion Systems

Building the Skills That Can Turn Conflicts into Opportunities

Conflict is a normal part of any healthy relationship. After all, two people can’t be expected to agree on everything, all the time. Learning how to deal with conflict—rather than avoiding it—is crucial. When conflict is mismanaged, it can cause significant harm to a relationship, but when handled in a respectful, positive way, conflict provides an opportunity to strengthen the bond between two people. By learning these skills for conflict resolution, you can keep your personal and professional relationships strong.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, management, development
Job Loss & Unemployment Stress
Job Loss & Unemployment Stress

Tips for Staying Positive During Your Job Search

It’s normal to feel hurt, vulnerable, or angry after losing a job. The good news is that despite the stress of job loss and unemployment, there are many things you can do to take control of the situation and maintain your spirits. You can get through this tough time by taking care of yourself, reaching out to others, and taking the opportunity to rethink your career goals and rediscover what truly makes you happy.

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Capability, Business, IndustryFabian Hirosemanagement, development, unemployment, stress, wellbeing, mentalhealth
Stress in the Workplace
Stress in the Workplace

Tips to Reduce and Manage Job and Workplace Stress

While some workplace stress is normal, excessive stress can interfere with your productivity and impact your physical and emotional health. And your ability to deal with it can mean the difference between success or failure.

You can’t control everything in your work environment, but that doesn’t mean you’re powerless—even when you’re stuck in a difficult situation. Finding ways to manage workplace stress isn’t about making huge changes or rethinking career ambitions, but rather about focusing on the one thing that’s always within your control: you.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, management, stress, development, mentalhealth, wellbeing
Overcoming Obstacles to Career Fulfillment
Overcoming Obstacles to Career Fulfillment

It’s always challenging to consider a huge change in your life, and there may be many reasons why you think changing careers is not possible. Here are some common obstacles with tips on how to overcome them:

  • It’s too much work to change careers. Where would I ever begin? Changing careers does require a substantial time investment. However, remember that it does not happen all at once. If you sit down and map out a rough plan of attack, breaking down larger tasks into smaller ones, it is a lot more manageable than you think. And if the payoff is a happier, more successful career, it’s worth it.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, wellbeing, career, management, development
Finding the Right Career in Fashion
Finding the Right Career in Fashion

Choosing or Changing Jobs and Finding Satisfaction at Work

Whether you’re just leaving school, finding opportunities limited in your current position or, like many in this economy, facing unemployment, it may be time to consider your career path. By learning how to research options, realise your strengths, and acquire new skills, as well as muster the courage to make a change, you can discover the career that’s right for you. Even if you’re trapped in a position you don’t love, with no realistic opportunity for change, there are still ways to find more joy and satisfaction in what you do.

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Industry, CapabilityFabian Hirosedevelopment, management, fashion, career
Does Mental Illness Enhance Creativity?
Does Mental Illness Enhance Creativity?

It’s widely held that it does – but what does the evidence say?

By Claudia Hammond

Everyone can cite famous people from Vincent Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf to Tony Hancock and Robin Williams, who were exceptionally creative and experienced mental health problems. There are so many examples that it seems obvious that there must be a link between mental illness and creativity.

Surely research would support this common wisdom? Not exactly.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, creativity, development, mentalhealth, wellbeing
Preventing Fashion Burnout. Signs, Symptoms & Causes
Preventing Fashion Burnout. Signs, Symptoms & Causes

Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive & prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest or motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place.

Burnout reduces your productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling increasingly helpless, hopeless, cynical, and resentful. Eventually, you may feel like you have nothing more to give.

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Industry, CapabilityFabian Hirosefashion, development, wellbeing, mentalhealth
The Mature Masculinity in Fashion Systems
The Mature Masculinity in Fashion Systems

Blue-collar and badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to changes in trade, technology and equality.

Over the past couple of days I have highlighted the urgent need for a deeper examination of the emotional and practical challenges that women and LGBT+people face in the fashion industry. However, they are not the only ones that are carrying the consequences. Many blue-collar and less well educated men in the UK are finding it difficult to adapt to the profound shifts in the nature of their work following changes in international trade, technology and equality law.

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Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirosefashion, men, development
The Homophobia of Fashion
The Homophobia of Fashion

The implicit emotional memories and rules in fashion systems.

Nine out of ten people are in support of the laws introduced in 2003 protecting lesbians and gay men from discrimination at work, yet recent Stonewall research has found that nearly one in five lesbian and gay people, almost 350,000 employees in Britain, have experienced bullying from their colleagues because of their sexual orientation (Serves You Right).

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Business, Capability, IndustryFabian HiroseLondon, UKfashion, development, lgbtq
Pregnancy, Miscarriages, Abortions & Child-Free Women in Fashion
Pregnancy, Miscarriages, Abortions & Child-Free Women in Fashion

A new study has found that thousands of new mums in the UK are forced to leave their jobs due to discrimination.

Yesterday both Harriet Minter in The Guardian and Radhika Sanghani in The Telegraph highlighted that, 54,000 British women face bullying or betrayal at the workplace when they are pregnant or returning to work from maternity leave.

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Business, Capability, IndustryFabian Hirosefashion, women, development, Life