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Why Psychological Safety & Trust Are So Important At Work
It’s no doubt a term that you’re familiar with given the current climate and it may sound rather daunting, but ‘psychological safety’ can make a huge difference in your workplace and it contributes greatly to team performance. The key aspect
How to develop an effective training and development strategy
Employee development is one of the most important investments that you can make in your organisation. Unfortunately, the trend we’ve witnessed over the pandemic is for personal and professional development budgets to be put on ice. Arguably, this is the time when training is more important than ever to maintain both performance and wellbeing.
Celebrating our 200th PCS Practitioner
When Covid-19 hit, we noticed an interesting pattern start to emerge. People had more time to invest in training and professional development. We saw a definite uptick in coaches and consultants applying for our e-learning course to become accredited PCS Practitioners.
The 6 Crucial Steps to Better Team Performance
For many employees, distributed working continues. For others, there’s an emerging ‘new normal’ at their place of work. Either way, as a CEO, director, manager or team leader, it is critical to re-orientate or refocus the team.
Considerations for Workplace Redesign
For almost all organisations in most industries and in most parts of the world, how and where we work has changed beyond recognition during lockdown. As we cautiously navigate our way out of C-19, there is much speculation about ‘the future of work’. We’ve considered some of the emerging themes and this is our take on ‘what next’…
How Covid Drives Transformation
Like many organisations, Covid-19 hit us like a truck. As a team of coaches and entrepreneurs, we quickly transformed our processes and systems to cope. It soon became clear that in the upside-down world of Covid, there was opportunity.
How two team effectiveness approaches stack up to deliver optimal results
It’s still the case that many leaders are not trained to lead but instead inherit or are appointed to a leadership role based on time served plus a core set of functional skills. Thankfully, there is a growing realisation amongst more forward-thinking organisations that leaders and teams need to be supported as well as directed.
BEST FROM THE WORST AND POTENTIAL NEW NORMS: BLOG NO.9 – Measure Climate, Improve Performance
PCS is the analytical tool which quantifiably measures organisational climate and maps it against leadership practise. It presents an actionable roadmap towards performance improvement via optimising both leadership and the climate it fosters.
BEST FROM THE WORST AND POTENTIAL NEW NORMS: BLOG NO.8 – Resilience
Stress and pressure are constants. But they can be self-inflicted, or unintentionally increased by the expectations of the leader and/or the climate they foster. Resilience is the ability to mitigate or minimise the impact of stress.
