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...
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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...
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.
Don’t just drift into the same old working patterns as we go into the new ‘term’. Equally, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is your chance to create an even more effective working culture: here’s how to take advantage of this opportunity. The pandemic...
The Covid-19 pandemic need not sound a deathknell for your business. Take the opportunity to regroup and rethink your strategies, and come out the other side more resilient and better equipped to deal with turmoil.
By managing individual team members’ expectations, and keeping a bird’s eye view of the process, you’ll be able to juggle different levels of accountability in your team and achieve the targets and results you want. Watch out, though, as it all starts with you… What...
The world is more interconnected than ever before, so you’d think that direct communication would be a skill we’d become adept at from an early age. Not so, it seems. Many people seem to have missed learning or actively avoided learning it: the skill of making a...
In a thought-provoking post from Neil Crofts, he looks at the effect of short-term planning on the way we live and work, and whether we should be challenging our notion of this. Most of us when we are young find it difficult to think more than a short time ahead. As...
Do you have a tendency to fall back on professional skills – whether that's data collection, analysis, re-engineering - to manage your growing organisation? Kate Mercer explains that instead you'll need a whole new range of more ambiguous and flexible skills to manage...
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Find fresh ideas and approaches to resolve your business issues, make a noticeable difference in your performance, and achieve long-term goals.