8 Onboarding Tips for the First Month
Starting a new job might not be quite as daunting as your first day at school, but it can feel pretty similar. New team members need to get grips with unfamiliar software, learn their roles, connect with colleagues, and integrate themselves into the culture of their...
Selecting a Coach Who’s Right For You
Working with a coach is an excellent way to support your professional and personal development and achieve your goals. A 2015 meta-study by the University of Reading found that coaching has a significant positive effect on both individuals and organizations. But...
6 Ways to Keep Your Team Connected While Working from Home
As Covid-19 continues to impact our lives, companies are increasingly saying goodbye to office-based working for good. Even those who plan to keep their office space can expect hybrid and flexible working to play a greater part in their business culture going forward....
Hybrid Leadership Challenges: Culture
One of the top concerns leaders have about remote work is that team culture will be weakened - if not lost all together. They are right to be apprehensive. Unless a change is made, a hybrid environment can greatly impact team culture. However, given that around 9% of...
Stress In The Workplace: Role Potential
In our ongoing series about stress in the workplace, we've discussed overall stress and work-life balance. In this next article in the series, we're going to focus on stress surrounding role potential, or, in other words, a lack of clear career opportunities. Role...
A Guide to Job Enrichment: 5 Techniques to Create Purposeful Roles
Human beings are complicated. It’s a fact that has perplexed economists for decades – as often their models of how a workforce should behave simply don’t match with how individuals act in reality. Take the impact of the recent pandemic, for example. We might expect...
Hybrid Leadership Challenges: Communication
As George Bernard Shaw once said, "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - and that has never been more true than in Hybrid work. As noted in our previous article, communication is one of the top issues leaders face in...
Stress In The Workplace: Work-Life Balance
In the first article of this series, we looked at overall stress and why it's important for employers to pay attention to stress levels in the workplace. To recap, high levels of stress can impact an employee's health, increase the likelihood of workplace accidents,...
The Not-So-Simple Motivation Equation
“If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.” …Or maybe he won’t – maybe the mouse doesn’t like milk, or maybe he didn’t even want a cookie in the first place… maybe he would prefer cake, or maybe he’s watching his figure and would like an...
The Leadership Challenges of Hybrid Work, Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we reviewed two of the most challenging aspects to hybrid work - communication and culture. In this article, we continue by addressing the next two areas - creativity and team health. Similar to communication and culture, both creativity and...