SHADOWMATCH NEWSLETTER: JUNE 2025

Shadowmatch Team
Jun 2
4 min read

Success for All

DID YOU KNOW?

The Risk of the Hidden Habit of Stress

In today's fast-paced world, stress has quietly woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives. For many, living with stress isn’t a temporary state—it has become a habit. When we're constantly under pressure, our bodies and minds adapt to the tension, making stress feel normal, even necessary. Over time, this chronic state becomes our baseline, and we forget what it feels like to truly relax.

This normalization is dangerous. Just because stress becomes familiar doesn’t mean it’s harmless. In fact, long-term stress steadily erodes our mental clarity, emotional balance, and physical health. It can lead to anxiety, burnout, poor sleep, and even chronic illnesses like heart disease. Yet, we often wear stress like a badge of honor, equating busyness with productivity and value.

Breaking this cycle requires awareness. We must learn to recognize stress not as a sign of strength, but as a warning light. Mindfulness, boundaries, rest, and intentional moments of calm are essential tools to rewire our habits.

Living in stress may feel normal, but it’s far from natural. We deserve more than survival—we deserve peace, clarity, and wellbeing. And that begins with unlearning the habit of stress. This is not possible if we don’t have a map of our stress index. Stressmapper does that for individuals and groups. Contact us: info@shadowmatch.com

A SHADOWMATCH STORY

Jeffrey was in grade 11 when he did Shadowmatch. He was a dedicated rugby player and loved mountain bike riding. His habits indicated a strong preference for outdoor, adventurous activities where being assertive, and having a strong sense of self-confidence is necessary. These were amongst his strong habits. But Jeffrey struggled with his academic work. It was clear from his habits why he struggled. It could have been an easy fix. Our habits must be our friends, or they will become our worst enemies.

WHAT SHADOWMATCH CAN DO

Shadowmatch helps users place individuals in roles that best align with their habits. It is widely used for recruitment, redeployment, succession planning, and mergers and acquisitions. By comparing an individual to your organisation’s unique job benchmarks, Shadowmatch provides valuable insights into their likelihood of success in a given role. An optimal fit enhances the long-term sustainability of the placement for both the individual and the organisation.

Shadowmatch for Optimal Placement

SHADOWMATCH TIP OF THE MONTH

We’re excited to share an important and positive update from the Shadowmatch team. As you may know, creating a clean and valid benchmark has traditionally required a bit of manual effort — especially when the top performers had varying habits that made it tricky to align the congruence index.

Well, good news: that process is now fully automated!

Thanks to extensive behind-the-scenes work, the system will now automatically do the “clean-up” work when you use top performers to create a benchmark — whether for recruitment, succession planning, development, or redeployment. No more manual frustration — just seamless, intelligent setup.

Please note: your existing benchmarks won’t be affected. But if you create a new one or make changes to an existing benchmark, the new automated process will kick in.

We hope this makes your workflow easier and more efficient — and as always, we’re here if you need any help along the way.

SHADOWMATCH VIDEO OF THE MONTH

Understanding Benchmarks

One of the important functions of Shadowmatch is to create optimal behaviour benchmarks of successful people in a specific role in a specific environment. This is the most reliable way to determine the unique combination of behaviours necessary for a specific task or role.

The principle of benchmarks

SHADOWMATCH FOR THE INDIVIDUAL

We all know what stress does. It makes life miserable. But we need some stress because it pushes us to live a better life. Understanding your stress map will empower you to take control.

Gudjon Bergmann said: “There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated”.

Find out how Stressmapper can help empower you to manage your stress:

Stressmapper: How it works!

Need a coach to walk along-side you? No problem, find a Shadowmatch Coach here:

Click here to find a coach

SHADOWMATCH COMMUNITY NEWS

We will be hosting the following webinars during the months of June and July

4 June:

11 June:

2 July:

Coaching Q&A (for registered coaches)

General System Webinar which will focus on the interview pack and how to optimally use it in your recruitment process

Click here to join the webinar

Coaching Q&A (for registered coaches)

BECOME A COACH

Coaching is the way in which we help people transform their lives and reach their optimal potential. Shadowmatch offers a fully automated AI coaching platform. This empowers coaches and professionals with content for meaningful habit transformation coaching.

To become a Shadowmatch coach is easy! The process is automated, and all the training is provided.

Go ahead and make a difference!

Want to become a coach, click here

Build your own Coaching Practice with Shadowmatch

One of our coaches, Marilda Wiegand, is hosting a Coach2Coach Lab that is a 6-month, small-group development journey designed for Shadowmatch Coaches. It offers real-world, hands-on experience to build confidence and capability using the Fulfilment Coaching Program.

You will: