Conflict management: what we can learn from Samurai culture
What we can learn from Japanese communications culture.
Mastering the art of speaking up: why labels matter
The assumptions that block our ability to speak or to listen in the workplace.
Mastering the art of speaking up: how to be better understood
How and why misunderstandings occur and how to listen better so that this doesn’t happen.
Mastering the art of speaking up: the element of risk
The ability to speak up is more complex than many leaders think it is.
Wellbeing at work: the hidden cost of divorce and separation to business
Why don’t more employers offer support for divorced or separated workers?
Neuroscience: the power of brain gender difference in the workplace
Employers should learn to harness brain gender diversity if they want to get the best from the whole workforce.
Mastering the art of speaking up: the importance of trust
Why trust is an essential ingredient in any conversation.
Bullying in the workplace: the ‘illusion’ of bullying versus the reality of harassment
What’s the difference between bullying and harassment?
Bullying in the workplace: thinking outside of the bullying box
The peer-to-peer solution to workplace relationship issues.
Women excel at emotional intelligence – or do they?
Received wisdom is that women are more emotionally intelligent, but does science back this up?
Mince pies, mischief and malice: the shadow side of personality at the office Christmas party
How might your employees display their darker personality traits at the office Christmas party?
Personal development: what is ‘good failure’ and how can employers promote it?
In order to be truly innovative, we need to give our people space to fail occasionally.
Bullying in the workplace: how to monitor and manage unacceptable behaviour
What can employers do to better monitor and prevent such abuse in the workplace?
Ethics in the workplace: how to tackle unethical behaviour
How to recognise unethical behaviour at work and what we can do about it.
How to embed neurodiversity into your people management practices
Just 10% of HR professionals have considered neurodiversity in their organisation.
HR for small business: why everyone needs a mentor
In my line of work, I support heads of HR, HR directors, and L&D managers in both large corporations and SMEs, and I’ve noticed a remarkable difference between them. The HR job description can cover an incredibly diverse spectrum. Is this down to the role or the type of person in it? Are they naturally […]
The ethical employee: a look at moral behaviour
In parts 4.1 and 4.2 of this discussion we looked at how our actions cascade outward through the organisations we work in, and how even our smallest actions can generate dramatic effects. We saw the importance of ‘the whole of us’ to the workplace, and that each of us is far more than just a […]
The ethical employee: what we bring to our business
Let’s begin this part of our analysis with a brief thought experiment… Imagine, just for a moment, that there is a part of you that is nothing more than a ‘work delivery unit’ (WDU). This is the part of you that fulfils your contract of employment to the letter. It’s the part of you that […]
The ethical employee: we have the power
In previous articles in this series I’ve talked about the nature of ethics, outlining three basic moral aims that we can use in assessing the morality of our businesses and our own management practice. These are: To nurture others To nurture our species as a whole To nurture all life I’ve discussed at a high […]
Man trouble: HR’s role in men’s mental health
We have a professional duty to put in place psychological safety mechanisms and measures to protect employees’ mental health based on analysis and evidence. While analysing workforce demographic comparisons – including comparing male and female* employees – are helpful to highlight key concerns for HR, e.g. performance and flexible working, it seems that mental health […]
