Articles: Management
Your Personal Values: A Simple Introduction and Activity
An individual’s personal values encompass their needs, desires, sense of what is to be aspired towards and how they [...]
What Makes A Good Huddle Or Stand Up Meeting?
Good huddles can add huge value to teams but poor huddles can hinder and demotivate teams. To ensure your [...]
Types of Goals: A Basic Introduction
There are several different types of goals that individuals or organizations can work towards. These include process related goals [...]
The Stop, Start, Continue Approach To Feedback
Stop, Start, Continue is a useful framework for delivering or requesting feedback. In it, feedback is made up of [...]
The Skill / Will Matrix
The skill / will matrix is a simple tool to asses an individual’s performance. It also provides guidance on [...]
The SBI Feedback Model: A Simple Summary
The SBI feedback model is a structured approach to providing feedback. It says feedback providers should frame feedback around [...]
The Replication Crisis in Psychology – Holding Some Theories Lightly
The "Replication Crisis" in the world of psychology refers to the fact that many experiments that have lead to [...]
The Relationship Between Performance And Pressure
The relationship between performance and pressure follows a bell curve. It shows that individuals have an optimum level of [...]
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 Feedback Sandwich: Something To Avoid
The feedback sandwich says that when delivering constructive or corrective feedback, that this difficult message should be sandwiched between [...]
The Feedback Review Matrix: An Easy Feedback Tool
The feedback review model is a simple 2x2 matrix mapping feedback against positivity and expectancy. Positive feedback should be [...]
The COIN Feedback Model: A Simple Feedback Process
The COIN feedback model and the COILED model are structured approaches to providing feedback. They both start with Connection, [...]
The CEDAR Feedback Model: Feedback In A Coaching Style
The CEDAR feedback model is a five stage feedback process that is heavily influenced by coaching. The model provides [...]
The Amygdala and Amygdala Hijacking: Fight or Flight
The Amygdala is the brain’s emotional center. It is associated with stress, fear and anxiety. When it senses a [...]
The AIDA Marketing Model: A Simple Introduction
The AIDA marketing model has four stages: Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action. Like all hierarchy of effects models, the [...]
The 360 Degree Feedback Model: A Simple Summary
The 360 Degree Feedback Model is the process by which an individual receives feedback from a large and varied [...]
Taylorism or Scientific Management – Using Science to Improve Efficiency
Frederick Winslow Taylor developed his ideas of Scientific Management (AKA Taylorism) in the late 19th and early 20th century. [...]
SMART Goals: A Simple Introduction
Goal setting is a powerful tool through which to improve motivation and performance. SMART Goals are particularly helpful. SMART [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Organizational Development: An Easy Introduction
Organizational Development is a planned effort to change the culture, behaviors, ways of working and other “people” factors of [...]