Dr Mike Clayton
Hi, I'm Mike Clayton. Thank you for visiting my website.
I am a business speaker, and I write books about the kind of personal and business skills I have needed throughout my career. I have spent the last twenty years studying and learning this stuff and nothing gives me more pleasure than sharing it.
You will find a lot of my writing on this website too - in my blog and in some of the materials you can download from the Resources pages. I hope you enjoy it and will want to contact me.
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Brilliant Stress Management Blog
Is the Prime Minister reading Brilliant Stress Management?
Who knows? Perhaps he should But in a skit on the week’s political news for BBC2′s “This Week” programme on 20 April, Mary Ann Sieghart of The Times imagined herself as a cleaner at Number 10 Downing Street. She covers all of … Continue reading
Workplace Meditation
Stress is an imposed force. Strain is the deformation that does the damage. Controlling the effects of stress is about three things: reducing the causes reducing the deformation and, perhaps most important… reducing the damage that the deformation does Think … Continue reading
How to Have a Stress-free Wedding
The Australian magazine, Bride to Be is running a short feature this month on “How to Have a Stress-free Wedding”. Last autumn, I was asked for expert comment by journalist, Bessie Recep. You can read her excellent article here. I … Continue reading
Posted in Brilliant Stress Management, Psychology
Tagged Bessie Recep, bride, groom, stress, stress-free wedding, wedding
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Wise Way to Get More Done
Work smarter: not Harder It almost deserves one of those corny motivational posters that you see: a bit like this, I suppose: Wisdom demands more than just smarter work practices, however. If you want to get more out of your … Continue reading
… and then there were Four
The advance copies of Brilliant Project Leader arrived on Tuesday morning and they are looking excellent. It is published today, on 17 November and Amazon UK are promising availability from 23 November. This is my fourth book in the Brilliant … Continue reading
Naomi Campbell and me
For the avoidance of doubt, I have never met, nor had any contact with super-model Naomi Campbell. But I had heard of her. However, my equally chic and stylish friend, Judith, is a reader of Harper’s Bazaar and phoned me … Continue reading
There’s more to life
The September/October 2011 edition of Scientific American Mind features two excellent articles on stress: Splintered by Stress tells us that pressure is good for our learning performance, but when it becomes too great, it will reduce performance significantly. Fight the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jordi Quoidbach, Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away, stress
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More than just Survival: Thriving in Times of Change
More than just Survival is one of my seminars I have given most often. I originally developed this seminar for a local authority client, to support officers and staff who were facing significant changes to their service – and struggling … Continue reading
It’s National Stress Awareness Day
Today, 2 November 2011, is National Stress Awareness Day. The event is organised by the ISMA – the International Stress Management Association. I have to say that the ISMA has produced a bumper crop of resources for you to download … Continue reading
It Ain’t the Stress that does the Damage
One of my most popular seminars has always been “It ain’t the Stress that does the Damage” But why did I choose that title? The reason is down to the meaning of words. Stress, strictly, means the external pressures and … Continue reading
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