Do Your Managers Need Development?

Do Your Managers Need Development?

The Predictive Index’s 2021 People Management Report found the top three skills employees value from their managers are confidence, communication and honesty. The takeaway? Those who listen and act on what they’ve heard, bring out the best in them. Empathy,...
How inclusive is your DE&I approach?

How inclusive is your DE&I approach?

When we speak about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), organisations’ main initiatives are generally related to the visible classification of others. Most notably, age, culture, race, and gender. While DE&I initiatives do and should focus on the aspects...
What Does Well-Being Actually Mean?

What Does Well-Being Actually Mean?

It feels like one of the hottest topics landing in CEOs’ inboxes is questions around “what are you doing for your organisation’s well-being?”. The rise in a focus on well-being appears to have snuck up on most organisations. In truth, well-being has been in...
The Future of Work

The Future of Work

Why do we work? It’s not a question we stop to ask ourselves often. If you ponder the question, you may come up with common logical answers. To secure our financial health To fund our lifestyle choices Pre-covid, these two answers would have been given by the vast...
Management: The Evolving Theory

Management: The Evolving Theory

Traditionally we are told that managers operate in four specific domains: Planning, Controlling, Organising, Directing These domains were constructed from research conducted by Fayol in the 1900s. Fayol’s theory is commonly referred to as the functions of classical...