Almost every leadership team I see is quicker than it was a year ago, and being quicker hasn’t made most of them better. I’ve sat in enough rooms over the last twelve months to know the pattern: more work going out of the door, produced faster, by people who feel...
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Leadership and trust-based outcome measures
Trust-based scientific studies and organisational outcome measures provide a compelling new way to monitor and improve your organisational health, but can we benefit before we’ve created a safe space for conversation?
What IS Organisational Culture?
What IS Organisational Culture? And Can You REALLY Change it? An organisation’s culture could be the key to unlocking stability and growth. Yet it’s a multi-layered topic. Here’s my take on what it is, and why it matters. Organisational culture can affect every aspect...
How to Create (and Maintain) Organisational Resilience in a Time of Covid
The disruption caused by Covid-19 has forced abrupt change on and in organisations throughout the UK. It’s been unexpected and unwelcome in equal measure. With workplace doors shut, there’s been a transformation in office culture. Has your business weathered the...
Gestalt Organisational Development
Gestalt is a German word. The closest translation is ‘whole’, ‘pattern’ or ‘form’. It has the sense that meaning cannot be found from breaking things down into parts but rather from the appreciation of the whole. In other words, Gestalt is a holistic process. It...
Organisational change and the art of crocodile management, Part Three
Let’s unpack that crocodile-soothing intervention of President Roosevelt that I described last time and relate it back to organisational change. Roosevelt, of course, had no knowledge of the powerful role of the amygdala in human fear responses. However, as a polio...






