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Should I stay or should I go now?
By Anthony Fitton So, the great resignation continues… and with it the great regret – with many returning to old roles and others moving on too quickly. Then there are those who remain but are feeling a bit stuck. Either way, there’s a big cost to businesses: recruitment and onboarding, loss of productivity and of…
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How a focus on human strengths can boost productivity
In the UK we work hard… very hard. According to a study by the TUC, we work the longest hours in Europe: 42 hours per week compared to Germany’s 40 hours, France’s 39 and Denmark’s 37.7. That all adds up to two extra weeks of work a year. But despite logging that additional time, we…
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What does human leadership really look like?
By Holly Holm-Powell “The shift from survive to thrive depends on an organisation becoming, and remaining, distinctly human at its core. This isn’t just a different way of thinking and acting. It’s a different way of being.”Deloitte, 2021 Over the past couple of years, our leaders and managers have really had to step up and…
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Why now is the time for human leadership
Nobody aspires to a leadership position expecting an easy ride, but it’s fair to say that the last two years have tested leaders like never before. Dealing with wave after wave of the pandemic and the associated impact of repeated lockdowns on finances, operations and morale has left many leaders feeling battered, bruised and burned…
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Mental Health Awareness Week: What can we do to support our mental health as we continue to navigate the pandemic?
What comes to mind when you think about the mental health impact of COVID-19? Likely, you will reflect on the negative impact that the pandemic has had on the wellbeing of millions, if not billions, of people around the world. This is only natural given our negativity bias as human beings, and although it’s important…
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How To Achieve a Micro-Action Mindset
How to achieve a micro-action mindset… It’s quite normal to set ourselves goals and within a short space of time forget them or find they haven’t be achievable. Why does this happen? Most of the time we’ve tried to achieve too much, too quickly. Science has shown that a simple solution is to break down milestone targets…
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Why is it Important to Know Your Character Strengths?
Written by Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes What do you spend more time doing, thinking about your weaknesses and trying to fix them or thinking about your strengths and building upon what is working? If you are like most people, the chances are that you are in the first group. However, it should not be the case.…
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Everyone Has A Role to Play: Unique Contribution & Team Flow
A unit of a team has more power than the individuals within it. Yet every single person within the team needs to feel they are making their own contribution and understand why they are on the team and what they are bringing to the party. We all need to think and feel: “this is my…
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3 Ways to Support Teams and Avoid a ‘Digital Burnout’
The use of technology has become an unavoidable part of everyday life. We have become reliant on it for much of our day-to-day functioning, with a reliance that continues to grow alongside the rapid developments which we are still experiencing to this day. Technology can fundamentally be seen as an enabler. It enables ease of…
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Why Having a Growth Mindset is Vital to Succeed as a Team?
To be able to flourish and thrive as individuals, teams and organisations, we need to move past traditional methods and look at things in a new way – a more humanising way. We need to stop thinking about performance culture as annual appraisals. We need to explore embedding a culture of continuous feedback. Most of…
