Articles: Diversity & Inclusion
Resilience in the World of Work: And How To Improve It
Key Points: Resilience in the world of work is the ability to remain at your best when things get [...]
Remote Working Pyramid – Critical Success Factors for Remote Organizations
In 2020 BCG published a helpful visual detailing the factors organizations need to consider and action to thrive under [...]
Reinforcement Theory In The World Of Work
Reinforcement theory says that the outcomes we experience as a result of our actions and behaviors affect how we [...]
Reducing Social Threats in Your Team
Considering David Rock's SCARF model can help you in reducing social threats in your team. It's five factors are: [...]
Receiving Feedback Well: Ways To Get Better At Feedback
Receiving feedback well is very difficult because feedback can be threatening. With practice and a structured approach, though, it's [...]
Receiving Feedback Is Threatening: Our Social Threat Response
Receiving feedback is threatening and can trigger our brains threat responses. Though we want to learn and develop, most [...]
Procrastination: A Simple Summary and Hints for Change
Procrastination is when we engage in irrational delays to action, and that delay has a meaningful consequence. It is [...]
Predictive Analytics In The World Of Work
Predictive analytics is an advanced form of statistical data analytics that seeks to make predictions about future events based [...]
Practical Tips for Hybrid Teams
Individuals in the world of work have three main areas of concern when it comes to being part [...]
Power Distance – How do people behave in proximity to power?
Power Distance is a concept used to describe and explain how people with lower levels of power behave around [...]
Porter’s Five Forces: A Simple Summary
Michael Porter says you can assess the profitability and attractiveness of a business by assessing key factors. Porter's five [...]
Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions – A Simple Summary
Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions visualises the mapping and relationships between emotions, showing them as a range of colours [...]
Play Personalities – What is your style of play at work?
Key Points: Play and playfulness yield great benefits for individuals, teams and organizations, but not everyone plays in the [...]
Plan, Do, Check, Act – The PDCA cycle of improvement
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is an approach to continuous improvement. It's also sometimes known as the Deming Cycle, after [...]
PESTLE Analysis – A strategic tool for analysing external factors
PESTLE Analysis is a strategic framework setting out six external factors to consider when evaluating the strategic direction of [...]
Personality Tests: A Simple Introduction
Personality tests are predominantly questionnaire based assessments of an individual's behaviors, motivations, needs, work preferences and communication styles. They [...]
Personality and Character Ethic In The World of Work
Key Points: Personality and Character Ethic is a concept well explained by Stephen Covey. Our personalities are what others [...]
Personal Branding Activity and Simple Introduction
Personal branding is the practice of marketing and presenting yourself as a brand. The purpose is to ensure that [...]
Pedagogy and Andragogy
Pedagogy and Andragogy are words used to describe teaching. Pedagogy is defined as the the method and practice of [...]
Oxytocin: The Love Hormone
Oxytocin, the love hormone, is a hormone that increases trust and generosity, facilitates social bonding and reduces stress and [...]
Otto Scharmer’s 4 Levels of Listening: Be a Better Listener
Otto Scharmer's 4 Levels of Listening are a simple, positive way to help you get better at listening. They're [...]
Organizational Development: An Easy Introduction
Key Points: Organizational Development is a planned effort to change the culture, behaviors, ways of working and other “people” [...]
Organizational Design In The World Of Work
Organizational Design is the ongoing process of improving organizations so that they are better able to achieve their strategies. [...]
Organizational Culture In The World Of Work
Organizational Culture is the term used in the world of work to describe what it feels like to work [...]