With COVID restrictions being wound back, most people are looking forward to enjoying their previous personal freedoms. However, when it comes to returning to work in the office, feelings are more mixed. Surveys are showing a surprising number of employees are reluctant to return to work in the office. One American Psychological Association study found […]
After long periods of working from home, how can we use Biophilic Office Design to make it more attractive for employees to return to physical offices? As employees have adjusted to working from home traditional office spaces now have a lot to compete with. According to Australian data, the most popular reason for preferring working […]
Team building strategies matter, so does recruitment. How much easier would it be if you only recruited positive people in the first place? In the movie ‘The Untouchables’ the hero crime fighter, Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner), complains to his mentor (Sean Connery) about corruption in the police force and the tip-offs to criminals. In reply […]
These days it seems psychologists and health professionals are always going on about mindfulness and wellbeing at work. Well, yes, we are and with good reason too. The wellbeing benefits of mindfulness meditation are well documented and justify making mindfulness programs a public health priority. But why should workplaces care about mindfulness? Beyond the health […]
Leadership…. Is one style better than another? The term “transformational leadership” was first coined by sociologist James Downton in 1973. The concept was then further developed by leadership experts, including Bernard Bass (1985) who explored the psychological mechanisms for transformative leadership. The easiest way to describe transformation leadership is to compare it with the opposite, that […]
When it comes to issues of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue at work, most people think of these as issues for the individual. For example, it is common to hear views like ‘If only the person did more exercise, was more assertive, or took an occasional bubble bath they would cope better.’ The first problem […]
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How to re-build a positive team in the post COVID world. As we make our way out of COVID-19 restrictions, organisations and businesses are returning to some kind of normal. In many cases this means people are returning to the office after working from home. What are the challenges in returning to the workplace? Of […]
Business professor Adam Grant has shown, through a series of innovative experiments, that simple five-minute interventions can have a lasting impact on team motivation and engagement. For example, working with call centre staff employed to seek donations for university scholarships, professor Grant arranged for one team to meet with a real-life beneficiary of a scholarship. […]
About five years ago I stopped using the usual ‘ice-breaker’ exercises to kick off training workshops. I found it was a better use of time to simply ask people what they hoped to gain from a session that was supposed to be about positive teams or advanced coaching skills etc. To this day it still […]
