by Amanda Baines | Nov 1, 2023 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Quiet Quitting isn’t just some fad on TikTok, Gallup analysis recently published shows it’s a real-life wakeup call for leaders. The Gallup Organisation’s Global Workplace Report for 2023 was published recently, and shows disturbing levels of employee disengagement....
by Kate Mercer | Sep 21, 2023 | Organisation Culture
When did you last see your job description? Well..? Thought so… Here’s something for you to try. Forget your ‘to-do’ list just for the moment, and don’t look at your job description, even if you’ve found it by now. Now, write down the things that it is your job to...
by Kate Mercer | Jul 4, 2023 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Did you work it out? Because that’s exactly the sort of puzzle that distinguishes a human from AI. In the Turing Test, an AI computer and a human are asked questions to determine which is human. If the computer is indistinguishable from the human, it passes the Turing...
by Amanda Baines | Apr 25, 2023 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
The recent resignation of Dominic Raab has focused attention on what constitutes workplace bullying. Examples of bullying behaviour usually include undermining someone, spreading lies, and unfair treatment. But it’s a grey area. Part of the problem is there’s no...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 5, 2023 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Many of us discovered during the Covid lockdown something we probably knew all along anyway – face-to-face communication is in many ways ‘better’ than remote communication. While remote communication offers convenience and cost-effectiveness, it cannot match the...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 29, 2023 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
At Leaders Lab we’re not big fans of New Year’s Resolutions. This is because usually and unwittingly you set yourself up to fail. This year instead, we’d like to shift the focus away from failing at your New Year’s Resolutions to working on your New Year’s...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 22, 2022 | Leadership
Have you ever been ‘ghosted’? That potential customer who seemed so interested in doing business with you, then never came back? The job interviewer who seemed so keen, then went silent and stopped returning your emails and calls? The enthusiastic young applicant for...
by Amanda Baines | Sep 25, 2022 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
The seismic changes at work brought on by the pandemic are continuing. As a business leader you’re not only dealing with hybrid working and the Great Resignation, but there’s now a new trend, and it’s called ‘quiet quitting’. What does it mean for your organisation?...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 24, 2022 | Team Development
Many of our clients have concerns about tensions in their team. Sometimes there is open conflict for all to see – there are raised voices, nasty gossip and obvious finger-pointing. But more often, the bad feelings are below the surface, and those unspoken...
by Amanda Baines | Jun 21, 2022 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Here is why none of these will make your team more accountable or more collaborative, and what you need to do instead. The last two years of the pandemic have upended the traditional model of ‘work’ for nearly all our clients. As the dust settles, and business...
