Articles: Management
Your Personal Values: A Simple Introduction and Activity
Key Learning Points: An individual’s personal values encompass their needs, desires, sense of what is to be aspired towards [...]
What Makes A Good Huddle Or Stand Up Meeting?
Key Learning Points: Good huddles can add huge value to teams but poor huddles can hinder and demotivate teams. [...]
Wellbeing: What it is and how to Improve it
Key Learning Points: Wellbeing is defined as the state of feeling healthy, happy and free of negative physical or [...]
Vulnerability In The Workplace: A Leadership Skill
Key Learning Points: Often mistaken for weakness or fragility, vulnerability in the workplace is the root of authentic leadership [...]
VUCA – A Way to View our Unpredictable World
Key Learning Points: VUCA is a term used to describe our fast-changing contexts in which it is difficult to [...]
The Trust Equation: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The trust equation says an individual’s trustworthiness is equal to their credibility, reliability and intimacy, all [...]
The Skill / Will Matrix
Key Learning Points: The skill / will matrix is a simple tool to asses an individual’s performance. It also [...]
The Situational Leadership Model: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The Situational Leadership model says leaders should adjust their style of leadership depending on the performance [...]
The Seven Transformations of Leadership: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The seven transformations of leadership model says there are seven types of “action logic” that leaders [...]
The SBI Feedback Model: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The SBI feedback model is a structured approach to providing feedback. It says feedback providers should [...]
The Replication Crisis in Psychology – Holding Some Theories Lightly
Key Learning Points: The "Replication Crisis" in the world of psychology refers to the fact that many experiments that [...]
The Relationship Between Performance And Pressure
Key Learning Points: The relationship between performance and pressure follows a bell curve. It shows that individuals have an [...]
The PERMA+ Model: What Is It? And How Can Businesses Benefit?
The PERMA+ Model says that there are five core factors that correlate well with wellbeing: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, [...]
The Johari Window: A Helpful Interpersonal Awareness Tool
Key Learning Points: The Johari Window is a four box tool that helps people think about the differences between [...]
The Future of Work: How Virtual Teams Can Be Supported With Their Mental Health
The world has changed and remote and hybrid working are here to stay, bringing many benefits, but [...]
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Lencioni’s framework for effective teams
Key Learning Points: In his classic, simple and easy to read book, "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A [...]
The ETC Self-coaching Model: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The ETC self-coaching model is a simple tool that individuals can use to coach themselves away [...]
The Change Curve: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The change curve is a simple model that details how people respond to change. It originated [...]
The Amygdala and Amygdala Hijacking: Fight or Flight
Key Learning Points: The Amygdala is the brain’s emotional center. It is associated with stress, fear and anxiety. When [...]
The 360 Degree Feedback Model: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: The 360 Degree Feedback Model is the process by which an individual receives feedback from a [...]
Taylorism or Scientific Management – Using Science to Improve Efficiency
Key Learning Points: Frederick Winslow Taylor developed his ideas of Scientific Management (AKA Taylorism) in the late 19th and [...]
Social Pain – The impacts of social rejection, discomfort and loss
Key Learning Points: "Social pain" is the name given to the emotional distress people suffer as a result of [...]
Resilience in the World of Work: And How To Improve It
Key Learning Points: Resilience in the world of work is the ability to remain at your best when things [...]
Receiving Feedback Well: Ways To Get Better At Feedback
Key Learning Points: Receiving feedback well is very difficult because feedback can be threatening. With practice and a structured [...]