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About Dr. Richard MacKinnon

The Founder and Managing Director of WorkLifePsych, Richard is a Chartered Psychologist and Coach. He's passionate about helping people be their best selves at work and effectively managing their wellbeing and productivity in a proactive and sustainable way.

Music to make you more productive?

Focus@Will Says Its Streaming Music Will Make You More Productive By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The new music service claims to have the formula for aural Adderall. The founder explains... read more →
  • December 23, 2012
  • Dr. Richard MacKinnon
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  • Productivity

What the other half thinks

Researchers from the US have highlighted the importance of the non-work domain (i.e. home life) in an employee’s experience of the work domain - and their career decisions. In their... read more →
  • December 22, 2012
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  • Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance at DOP 2013

I’m very much looking forward to next month’s Division of Occupational Psychology annual conference in Chester. Aside from running a workshop on the Dimensions personality questionnaire, I’m going to be participating... read more →
  • December 21, 2012
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  • Events, Work-Life Balance

Speaking up

I spotted a nice post on the Harvard Business Review blog last night - the author compares his constant “coming out” about his sexuality to the awkward conversations that need... read more →
  • December 20, 2012
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  • Diversity

Procrasti-Nation.

Procrasti-Nation. We’ve all been there. Some of us for extended periods!
  • December 16, 2012
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  • Productivity

Introducing Positive Psychology

https://youtu.be/1qJvS8v0TTI A great little video introducing Positive Psychology - what it is and more importantly, what it’s not. I particularly like the reference to the need for hard work, despite... read more →
  • December 15, 2012
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  • Positive Psychology

What If You Don’t Want to Be a Manager?

What if you don’t want to be a manager? A question I’m hearing more and more. Anne Kreamer, hbr.org Imagine that you’ve invested years of blood, sweat and tears at... read more →
  • December 15, 2012
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The Top Five Career Regrets

What do you regret most about your career? I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson’s School for Design, and a particularly attentive front-row audience... read more →
  • December 15, 2012
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Telecommuting May Equal More Work, Compromised Work-Life Balance

Telecommuting May Equal More Work, Compromised Work-Life Balance. An interesting - but unsurprising - conclusion. For me, the key quote here is: “Careful monitoring of this blurred boundary between work and... read more →
  • December 15, 2012
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  • Flexible Working, Work-Life Balance

Personality clash between HR teams and line managers in financial services

This article outlines some recent work I did at Talent Q, exploring the personality differences between HR practitioners in Financial Services organisations and their internal clients. In a study of... read more →
  • December 14, 2012
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