I'm often asked about which books I recommend at the events we run. So I decided to set up a stress management book store with all my recommendations. I'm delighted to announce that my book store is now open for business!

I've set up a number of categories including: resilience books, positive psychology books, and personal development books. You'll also find a category on on managing emotions, which contains my favourite book title of the moment, which is: "Should I Strap a Battery to my Head?".

Some of my favourite authors are featured including Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Dr Steve Peters and Edward (Ned) Hallowell.

Most of the books also have kindle (digital) versions, which I increasing depend on because of all the travelling I do. In case you don't have a kindle, I've included various versions in my book store's Amazon Kindle category, including the latest Kindle Fire HD. I just got one of these for my birthday. It's wonderful, a combination of a kindle and a powerful, fast, tablet computer. The ultimate antidote to airport boredom!

I was very keen to link up with BSI because a number of their Standards and Guidance documents are highly relevant for anyone looking to follow best practice in managing stress risks at work.

The most relevant Standard is PAS 1010, which provides practical guidance on the management of psychosocial risks in the workplace.

Also relevant is PD 25111. This guidance is related to the human aspects of business continuity and deals with what organizations should do to take account of the human impact of adverse events.

More information on both of these can be found on our new British Standards page.

I've organized 2 free events in Leeds, Yorkshire, one on Resilience, the other on Stress Management Competencies.

Both events take place at Leeds Civic Hall on Thursday 6th December. My thanks to Leeds City Council for hosting the events and particularly to Chris Ingham for all his help in getting these events set up.

The Reslience Roadshow looks at psychological research into resilience and introduces tools found to be effective for individuals and organisations, particularly from the field of positive psychology.

The Stress Management Competencies event discusses the skills and behaviours managers need to prevent and reduce stress at work. We look at the management competency framework, tools and interventions that came out of a major research programme sponsored by HSE, CIPD and Investors in People.

Hope you can make one or both of these events!