This question came from someone who understandably wants to stay anonymous…but its a situation we all face at some point in our careers.
How do you deal with that d**k boss who just won’t seem to listen?
In this week’s podcast I share what I’ve learnt to make the best of a difficult situation.
A sincere thank you can cheer up anyone’s day, provide a boost of motivation and create a closer bond.
So why are sincere thank you’s still far too rare in the workplace?
I work hard on saying thank you regularly and properly - so in this weeks podcast I explain the way I approach it.
Most of the leaders I’ve spoken to recently have been thinking about how they’ll maintain a team bond in a hybrid work model. So in this weeks episode, I’m sharing my experience tackling that challenge.
On the job is where most of our learning takes place.
How do we ensure that we don’t lose its power with hybrid working?
In this weeks episode I share my ideas on how to answer that question.
We all know about the importance of great inductions. But how do you still create that vital sense of belonging in a hybrid working world?
Hybrid working brings a new set of choices for how your people experience working for you.
In this weeks episode I tackle the things I wouldn’t compromise on in a hybrid model
Finding it hard to get your colleagues to take on responsibility. Claudia talks through her experience of what might be going on and gives you some practical things to try.
This week is all about succession so I thought I’d share my experience of what it feels like to manage your own succession as a company co-founder.
How do you stop your people vision being a work of fiction? This week Claudia talks through how she went about creating a grounded people vision at Clarasys.
What are the crazy things that you do at work that you’d never do at home?
Things like referring to someone by a job title instead of their name.
Or ‘operationalising’ or ‘synthesising’ anything.
Or needing a slide deck to have a chat.
The more we recognise the strangeness of the workplace we’ve created, the sooner we can fix it.
What’s worse than a performance review?
A performance review with even more bias, this time depending on whether someone is in the office or remote.
It can be avoided, but as we learnt, only with some deliberate action.
Why are we addicted to slides?
They’ve repeatedly proven to be a great way of causing mis-communication. All the great communicators in the world run a mile from them. Yet we still can’t break the habit.
The move to hybrid working might just give the impetus and opportunity to finally do just that. I can hope at least.
A year of remote working has created the opportunity for change. But it hasn’t created the change itself, that’s yet to come.
In this weeks blog, I share the big lesson I learnt of what happens if you just leave that change to chance.
Does anyone miss hybrid meetings?
Those ones where half the people are in the room, half on video and it’s a bit shit for everyone.
I definitely don’t. But I sincerely hope that a year of remote meetings means we’ve learnt how to make them better in the future.
Great organisations go far beyond thinking of responsibility as who is on the hook for what. Yet in most companies, org charts and role specs reign. What can we all learn from those that do it better?
People are woven into organisations far beyond their job spec, but succession planning rarely focuses on more than just the role. In this week’s blog, Tim shares what he’s learnt from these experiences.
This week’s blog looks at a tested technique for coming with a vision everyone can get behind.
Often the real help someone wants is hidden under a facade of business practice.
Here’s my recent expereince of just that and I’m trying to do now to change it.
When something isn’t working, our instincts are to add more to fix it. But what if the stuff we’re adding is the reason it isn’t working?
Here is my experience of getting it wrong!
We’re often faced with situations where we have to manage a team where we’ve not been involved in selecting who is part of it.
In this week’s podcast I share my experience of what I’d do initially to start to build a great team dynamic.