Articles
Liminal Consulting’s blog includes articles on individual, team and organisation development. I cover content on Organisation Development, Gestalt Psychology, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Behaviour Change, Business Consulting, Leadership, Management, Conflict in the Workplace, Coaching and Systems Thinking.
Understanding and working with resistance to change
In spite of my many years training professionals how to make practical sense of the neuroscientific aspects of human social behaviour during change, I still remember it coming as a bit of a shock, when I first read how offering feedback in the workplace can trigger a...
Why viral change sustains new behaviours
Is change constant or does nothing change? Such is the paradox within the ‘bad press’ that emerges around many transformational change initiatives. A chief accusation levelled at large scale corporate change programmes is that, despite levels of disruption and spend...
Building trust in leaders
It’s a demonstrable fact, now repeated in study after study, that organisations that focus on building trust in leaders perform better across a raft of indicators, from employee engagement, to knowledge-sharing, to innovation, and even to the bottom line itself:...
How personal risk impacts behaviour change
Among the science on how personal risk impacts behaviour change in psychology is the view that its likelihood of happening is a combination of intention, attitude and environmental factors, such as the prevailing social norms that govern whether we stand to gain or...
COVID and its impact on the social fabric of organisations
In case you missed my recent post on why friendships at work matter, we discussed how humans are a social species who crave connection, and how a wealth of evidence now proves how strong connections lead to better mental and physical health, better workplace...
Why friendships at work matter
As a social species, we crave connection. So, for us, friendships at work matter. This is a well-known origin story about us humans that stems from our evolutionary need to cooperate in order to survive. When we achieve this successfully, we recognise it through the...