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Explore research-backed insights and practical tools on workplace wellbeing, resilience and stress management, energy management, leadership development, and sustainable careers. Discover proven strategies to help your organisation stay energised, adaptable, and performing at its best.

Latest Articles

Discover practical insights on sustainable careers, energy management, resilience and stress management, and employee wellbeing. Our articles combine research with real-world strategies on leadership development, talent development, and the future of work, helping organisations create energised, adaptable, and high-performing teams.

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8-8-2024

Happy, Healthy & Productive Employees

On 21 June 2024, our Zest for Work team held a webinar about “Happy, Healthy and Productive Employees” that went from the original science to the practical implications for organisations, including a concrete case study. Here is a summary of what we together with Professor Beatrice Van der Heijden PhD shared in the keynote “Sustainable Careers for everybody… ?!”.

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17-7-2024

Understanding Sources of Stress in the Workplace

Given the current data about rising stress levels, it becomes increasingly important for everyone to upskill themselves in managing their own stress and learn to become more resilient.

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11-7-2024

Understanding our Stress Responses

Stress, whether it’s social, emotional, cognitive, internal, external, systemic, or environmental, can hijack our ability to focus on what matters. In a world where the pace only seems to quicken—from endless emails to personal commitments—it’s crucial to understand our stress response and why we react in such ways so we can learn to respond effectively.

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Featured Free Downloads

Access expert-designed tools and templates on stress management, career development, and workplace wellbeing. Each resource offers practical steps to help your people stay energised, resilient, and focused at work.

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Values List What matters the most to you

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A simple worksheet to help you clarify what drives you—useful for making aligned decisions and finding clarity in your work and life.

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Inner Voices List What do your inner voices say

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Identify the inner narratives that influence your behaviour, motivation, and mindset—so you can respond with greater awareness and intention.

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Understand Sources of Stress in the workplace Worksheet

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Explore common workplace stressors with this guided exercise and reflect on which ones are most relevant in your current work context.

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Understand Your Stressors Know Your Own Signals Worksheet

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A reflection worksheet to help you recognise early signs of stress and identify the patterns that impact your energy and performance.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about our programmes, impact measurement, and global delivery. Learn how Zest helps organisations build sustainable performance and energised cultures that last.

What makes Zest different from other corporate training providers?

Most training providers focus only on individuals. At Zest, we take a holistic, organisation-wide approach. We don’t just deliver training, we help you fix the system, not just the symptoms. That means redesigning the culture, leadership practices, and structures that either fuel or drain performance.

 

Our programmes are grounded in behavioural science and sustainable career research, combining practical workshops with strategic advisory services. This dual focus helps organisations build resilient teams, adaptive systems, and energised leaders, so people thrive and performance becomes truly sustainable.

 

Where others deliver one-off sessions, we partner with you to embed lasting change, balancing individual wellbeing with organisational demands. The result is not only better-trained people, but stronger cultures, smarter systems, and workplaces built to keep pace with change.

How do you measure the impact of your training programmes?

We build measurement into every programme from the start. Using tools such as pre- and post-assessments, behavioural feedback, and follow-up evaluations, we track mindset shifts, behaviour change, and performance improvements over time. Our evidence-based approach means you see tangible ROI, from improved wellbeing scores and reduced absenteeism to stronger leadership capability and higher employee engagement.

Which industries does Zest typically work with?

We work across a wide range of industries, including corporate, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and professional services. Our global clients range from multinational organisations with distributed teams to mid-sized businesses looking for practical solutions to reduce stress, improve resilience, and drive sustainable performance. Because our programmes are rooted in science but adapted to each context, they are effective in both high-pressure corporate settings and sector-specific environments such as supply chain, healthcare, and education.