Our new ways of working have forced many businesses to adjust how they engage with employees and demanded leaders to communicate on a more personal level, with more empathy, and more regularly than ever before. Engaging with employees to help them to improve their financial literacy and wellbeing is another […]
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Why it’s still important to celebrate your office Christmas party this year
“While it may be too early to know how coronavirus restrictions may change over the next couple of months, it’s still important to celebrate an end of year party for your team. Businesses have already modified how they operate day to day, so there’s no reason why the office Christmas […]
Five ways to overcome the ‘yes’ reflex
Not every request from others adds value to the strategy/mission. It’s not that the request is bad, it simply may not add real value. Requests for time, information, and help often flow from the pressure of the moment rather than from alignment with a strategy/mission, writes Dave Hanna “Our greatest […]
Stop calling them soft skills – They’re human skills
Why are the words “hard” and “soft” rolled out to describe the skills that a manager needs to possess and execute to be successful in their day-to-day job? Why is it that the more technical skills, the ones usually aligned to competence and easily measured, are labelled as “hard”, whilst […]
Detect mysterious underlying values and beliefs within your organisation
You can see how sometimes underlying values and beliefs supersede formal strategies and good intentions. They are very powerful forces indeed! To make matters worse, such beliefs are invisible and hard to detect, writes Dave Hanna. Sometimes what goes on in organisations doesn’t make any sense. Consider these actual scenarios: […]