If you want your organisation to attract, retain and develop talent, it’s time to turn up the volume on wellbeing. Here’s why the welfare, health and happiness of your employees is so vital – and some pointers to make you think. As someone in a leadership role,...
Tag: engagement
Belonging at work — has it ever mattered more?
As millions remain confined to working from home through the coronavirus crisis, the challenge of how to ensure colleagues feel a sense of belonging at work is being brought into sharp relief for employers. We’re in an epoch. Without having to commute, those in newly...
Cooperative Inquiry Groups
In any area of management, you will hear phrases like being “on team” and “singing from the same hymn sheet” practically every day. The concept is simple and logical enough – managers and their reports are, or at least should be, working toward common goals and with...
The toxic effects of high-pressure cultures (Part One)
Surviving in competitive markets is a question of building high-pressure cultures focussed on bottom line results. Encouraging people to be cut throat and take-no-prisoners to ensure financial success. Right? As you might expect from the way I phrased it, this is...
From ego to eco: a new approach to boosting employee engagement
A recent article by Ashridge Business School researcher Patricia Hind opens with this discomforting observation: “Surveys consistently report that work is more often dread and drudgery rather than passion and purpose. Research shows that only 13 per cent of employees...
Appreciative Inquiry and Cooperrider’s Three Circles of Strength, Part Two
Last time, we began our tour of David Cooperrider’s “Three Circles of Strength” framework: if Circle 1 involves elevating strengths, Circle 2 progresses to multiplying them into – in Cooperrider’s words – “macro combinations and configurations.” Let’s look at an...

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