We've reached that time of year when, as a general rule, people only think about holidays. This anticipation is usually loaded with positive expectations and as such, it brings us wellbeing and leaves us with a smile on our face - we often even focus more on work and are able to find the extra energy to ensure that when the time comes to go on holiday, we leave everything sorted and tidy. What you may not have known is that planning and anticipating holidays brings more wellbeing than the holiday itself.

Nowadays no one disputes the idea that managing always involves managing people - and that a substantial part of the challenges faced by managers is related to the difficulties of managing different personalities, ways of being, visions and values, managing to maximise and leverage the available talent. But managing talent is not an easy task.

For many consumers, in many categories and locations, the shop plays a valuable role as a source of experience and enjoyment.

Apart from strengthening and updating knowledge and skills and the legal obligation that training per se represents for companies, there are some less obvious reasons for investing in training.

Football is the sport that adds the most fans in Portugal. I've lived here for over 20 years and I can't remember seeing a nation suffer as much as in the last 15 minutes of the game against France in the last European championship. Deep down any Portuguese man and woman thought that, even though they were winning, everything could go wrong. But, this time, it didn't.

Almost 28 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are still walls being built right under our noses and so many others with which we keep bumping into, bumping our heads. So we often move in the wrong direction, or else we sit, hands on our heads, powerless.