Difficult colleagues: Relationships with people who think differently
Struggling to work with difficult people? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook explores the Strengths Deployment Inventory and why the problem so often lies in a clash of motives rather than toxic behaviours.
How to master personal workflows in a collaborative workplace
Collaborative demands can quickly overwhelm well-intentioned colleagues. Using the practice of ‘Head Heart Hand’ helps build your capacity to get work done.
Leadership’s role in organisational resilience
Investing in the resilience of leaders is a strategic move that can yield significant returns for any organisation. When leaders are resilient, they can inspire and lead their teams through any challenge, ensuring the organisation not only survives but thrives.
How to strengthen cross-company collaboration
Helping your employees to join the dots across teams, priorities and decisions can eliminate silos and unlock value from stronger synergy.
Better relationships, less red tape: The key to high work performance
What is the one thing we can do to improve work performance? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook argues that we should direct attention to better relationships, and not, as often happens, more systems.
Five ways to create anti-fragile employee experience teams
Is your EX team prepared for pandemic-level shocks or will they be blindsided and frantic when the next crisis occurs?
You can’t change culture, so stop trying
By encouraging people’s assumptions to evolve, people professionals can create lasting value.
Eight ways to ensure high-quality meetings
By prioritising quality over quantity we can ensure meetings pack a punch.
Book excerpt: ‘Irresistible’ by Josh Bersin
Bersin reveals the seven secrets behind the world’s most enduring, employee-focused organisations in his compelling new book – out now.
No vacancies: What HR can do about the influx of holiday requests
The latest changes in travel rules, may leave employers struggling to manage annual leave requests
Artificial intelligence is the future for building great teams within HR
HR leaders and professionals need to embrace AI if they want to build great teams within their organisations.
A six-step team reset checklist for 2024
Now is the time to reset and re-energise for the new year ahead.
It takes two to tango: how HR can increase its influence by learning to be a better partner
How HR can increase its influence by learning to be a better partner.
Performance management: how to get the best from your team
How to improve team performance by 22% in just six months.
Partnership with finance: the holy grail for HR?
In today’s volatile business climate, it’s more important than ever for HR and finance to work together.
New Year planning: how to design a successful team offsite day
While preparations for the end of the year are underway, most of us are also thinking ahead to the raft of team offsite days that will be held in early 2020. There’s no rest for the wicked! Offsites should feel very different to regular meetings. Here are a few tips to help you design and […]
Why a VUCA business environment can be a positive thing
A lot has been written about the volatile and complex trading environment today but it’s only as difficult as we make it for ourselves. If we focus instead on collaboration over competition, we could make VUCA a positive thing. We like an acronym in the business world. VUCA is one that has been doing the […]
Three ways to develop a sense of belonging in the workplace
Within any organisation, the need to feel like part of a team and to develop a sense of belonging is a vital to ensuring a comfortable working environment, and to a certain extent, increasing productivity. Whether you’re a new starter though, or simply joining a new team within a company that you’ve worked in […]
Psychological safety: how supportive teams enable innovation
Companies that embrace psychological safety often focus on the positive effect it has on team cohesion. Whilst that is important, it also allows people with different personality types the chance to share innovative ideas. Psychological safety has become something of a trendy topic in management, even though there is much confusion about what it actually means and how it might be measured. […]
Groupthink: how to avoid the follower mentality
Businesses must remain vigilant against the dangers of groupthink and create a workplace culture that encourages and listens to diverse opinions. Back in 2007 I ran a session for senior traders in a financial services organisation. A participant was presenting a project about a complex new financial product to the room. As the presentation rolled […]
