Slack, the technology company, recently conducted a survey in light of the surge in remote working that includes some great data on communicating effectively with remote teams. Of the nearly 3,000 workers Slack quizzed in March this year, 45% reported working...
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Decision-making, charts and illusion: Gestalt visualisations, Part One
We live in an era of digitally produced charts laden with eye-catching, attention-drawing visualisations. Charts seem to speak louder and more persuasively than words, and there is little doubt that visual representations seem to appeal to a human desire for tidy...
How to prevent conversational meltdowns: Part two
In the first part of this series, I described the cooling effects on an overheating conversation of taking responsibility for one’s role in verbal escalations. Here are some other powerful methods of preventing conversational fires to add to your repertoire. Social...
Using experimentalism in effective facilitation
One of the characteristics of complex organisations is that they rely on different forms of expertise to function. However, problems arise when the experts are siloed in their own teams or departments, perhaps exchanging a few friendly words with colleagues from other...
Culture change and communication: two inseparable partners
Business academic David Needle describes organisational culture as the collective beliefs, values and principles of its members, a dynamic and evolving habitat that arises out of the continually bubbling brew of history, product, market, management style, type of...