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The good side and the dark side of stress. The neuroscience behind it and its impact on our cognitive performance.

by Magda Tabacupdated on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021Leave a Comment

Cognitive performance evolves with stress levels and there is a relationship between performance and alertness/or stress levels.

WFH; Work from home; PCM; PCM Training; Magda Tabac

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Environmental Preferences: why are some people better at working from home than others? The PCM Perspective

by Magda Tabacupdated on June 7, 2021October 20, 2020Leave a Comment

In the new reality of Work from Home (WFH), and after months of using more or less improvised working spaces as our offices, meeting colleagues only through Zoom/Teams or other media, it’s clear that this routine works for some of us and does not work for others. There are a number of ways of looking at this, but today I will approach this issue through the prism of PCM (Process Communication Model), namely, by looking at the concept of Environmental Preferences.

SCARF Model; Magda Tabac; Status; Certainty; Autonomy; Relatedness; Fairness

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SCARF Model in the times of Covid-19: FAIRNESS

by Magda Tabacupdated on February 10, 2021August 1, 2020Leave a Comment

This is the sixth and last post in the series dedicated to the benefits of applying the SCARF Model to increase our wellbeing (at home and at work) in these times of Covid-19. This post approaches the fifth SCARF “button”: Fairness.

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SCARF Model in the times of Covid-19: CERTAINTY

by Magda Tabacupdated on February 10, 2021July 29, 2020Leave a Comment

This is the third post in the series dedicated to the benefits of applying the SCARF Model to increase our wellbeing (at home and at work) in these times of Covid-19. This post approaches the second SCARF “button”: Certainty

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SCARF Model in the times of Covid-19: STATUS

by Magda Tabacupdated on February 10, 2021July 28, 2020Leave a Comment

This is the second post in the series dedicated to the benefits of applying the SCARF Model to increase our wellbeing (at home and at work) in these times of Covid-19. This post approaches the first SCARF “button”: Status.

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SCARF Model in the times of Covid-19

by Magda Tabacupdated on February 10, 2021July 27, 2020Leave a Comment

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how this Covid pandemic has been pushing a lot of our SCARF “buttons”, in so many ways.
We all have specific triggers/stimuli that induce conscious and subconscious reactions in each of us and thus, play an important role in our well-being. It’s about these that I will write today and start this short series of blog post dedicated to the SCARF model.