What exactly is this employee ownership thing, then? Simply speaking, EO is a form of exit strategy for a founder who wants to extract value from their business before finally leaving to retire or to do other projects. The usual way to achieve this is a commercial...
Organisation Culture
Sssh, I’m outta here – the art of disappearing in plain sight
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....
Go on – tear up your job description
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...
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...
Face the facts – board room or zoom room? Here’s what the science tells us…
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...
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...
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?...
Drinks after work? Abseiling expeditions? Group hugs?
Why team building doesn’t work.
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...
Your family is none of your business
Could a family culture be bad for your organisation and your leadership? When you think about your aspirations for your company’s culture, a natural reaction might be to cast around for examples of the kind of ‘feel’ you are seeking. What very often comes to mind is...
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.