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Meetings are not just logistical events. They’re opportunities to strengthen culture, connection, and clarity. Different types of meetings (team meetings, project stand-ups, problem-solving sessions, etc.) require different structures and mindsets. Great meetings are intentional, inclusive,…
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Team and Other Meetings: Designing Spaces That Work
Meetings are not just logistical events. They’re opportunities to strengthen culture, connection, and clarity. Different types of meetings (team meetings, project stand-ups, problem-solving sessions, etc.) require different structures and mindsets. Great meetings are intentional, inclusive,…
Wellbeing Interventions at an Organizational Level: A Strategic and Human-Centered Approach
Quick and easy wellbeing fixes at an organizational level seldom work. Effective organizational and individual wellbeing interventions must go beyond surface-level perks and engage with the deeper psychological, emotional, and social dimensions of work. They…
Personalization and Fairness at Work: Balancing Individual Needs with Equity
Personalization in the workplace involves adapting work experiences to meet individual preferences, strengths, and circumstances. Fairness does not always mean treating everyone the same. Instead, it often means recognizing and supporting different needs in ways…
Task Acceptance: The Hidden Key to Real Commitment at Work
Task acceptance is the internal moment when someone chooses to commit to a piece of work — not just being assigned it. Real task acceptance increases motivation, quality, and resilience, reducing quiet disengagement and passive…
Your Personal Values – Where Conflicts can Occur
Personal values conflicts can occur when we work or interact with others who hold values that are not aligned to our own. Experiencing a values clash can feel jarring and visceral. Being aware of them…
The Career Life-Line Activity: A Reflective Career Development Tool
The “career life-line” is a reflective activity that involves thinking through your career and drawing a line mapping how engaged you were in work (or another factor) against the time in your career. Career Life-lines…
MORE PIES – Active Listening Skills from Andrew B Brown
MORE PIES is an acronym to remember some active listening best practice as shared by our good friend, Andrew B Brown. It stands for: Minimal encouragers, Open-ended questions, Reflecting / mirroring, Emotional Labeling and Paraphrasing,…
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 might like a colour palette for paint. Plutchik’s Wheel Robert Plutchik identified eight primary emotions (joy,…