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....
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Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana…
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...
Bully for you. Are you aggressive or simply ‘robust’ in the workplace? Here are 3 key points about the so-called ‘bullying threshold’
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...
Resilience vs Resolutions: Choosing to bounce back instead of breaking down
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...
It’s Hallowe’en – have you been ghosted yet?
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...
I quit (Shhh…)“Quiet quitting” – the new trend in the workplace. What it means for your organisation, and what you can do about it.
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?...
Is it time for a regroup?
Here we are again at the start of a New Year. It’s often a time when we reassess how we are doing in life and set ourselves new aspirations and targets. Many of us have found a new urgency to carry out this self-audit as the pandemic shifts our priorities and changes...
Seeing the light!
The Rooflight Company Offering high quality rooflights, roof windows and skylights, The Rooflight Company is based in Oxfordshire. They have built an award-winning reputation not just for innovation and design excellence, but also for the way they manage,...
Fight, flight or freeze? It’s not that simple…
Fight, flight or freeze? It’s not that simple. Here are some strategies to deal with post pandemic feelings of uncertainty and threat in the workplace. Your brain is hard-wired to be risk averse. Covid 19 has created widescale and unprecedented levels of...
What does work mean now? How to create job enrichment in a post-pandemic world
The pandemic has caused people to re-evaluate the sense of meaning that their work gives them (in the US it’s being called The Great Resignation). This article explains how leaders can create the kind of environment and role accountability that reinstates motivation and meaning.
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