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Meaningful Connections in the Extremely Digital Time of Covid-19
How are you? A question I’ve always found difficult to answer, especially at a start of a business call. Do people truly want to know how I am? Or, is it just a formality? But now, more than ever, we should ask questions that truly allow us to connect – especially at the beginning of…
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Reaching Peak Flow: Are Your Teams Safe to Stretch?
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” That quote, attributed to automotive business magnate Henry Ford, perfectly sums up why taking risks, trying new things and stretching ourselves is so important for a high-performing workplace. After all, without people feeling comfortable to think differently, how can organisations achieve innovation? It’s also…
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How to Build Meaningful Human Connections
Meaningful Human Connection is about tapping into what’s most authentic and real about us humans, what connects us, and what makes us different. The first few works and sentences of each new interaction matter the most to set the foundation for that connection, and in so many situations this always starts with ‘how are you?’…
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Facing Change Positively
We live in a fast-paced and ever evolving world. With advancements in technology and globalisation it is critical, now more than ever, to be agile and change rapidly and effectively. When we think about the world of work 10 years ago, there has been unprecedented levels of change. Organisations which haven’t kept up with these…
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Resilience and Positive Wellbeing in Times of Great Uncertainty
A blog from Anna Maasland, Bailey & French Consultant In the past few days (and weeks) I have seen many working from home articles discussing how to make it meaningful and keep human connections. We are all going through unprecedented times and having to be innovative and work in ways that are alien to us.…
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Seeing Clearly: Why Teams Can’t Flow Without Clarity
We work in teams because we are striving to reach a common goal, a goal that is too complex, challenging or large to be achieved alone. To achieve that goal, we need to know where we are going and what is expected of us in getting there. This is why clarity is so critical: we…
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Everyone Has A Role to Play: Unique Contribution & Team Flow
A unit of a team has more power than the individuals within it. Yet every single person within the team needs to feel they are making their own contribution and understand why they are on the team and what they are bringing to the party. We all need to think and feel: “this is my…
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3 Ways to Support Teams and Avoid a ‘Digital Burnout’
The use of technology has become an unavoidable part of everyday life. We have become reliant on it for much of our day-to-day functioning, with a reliance that continues to grow alongside the rapid developments which we are still experiencing to this day. Technology can fundamentally be seen as an enabler. It enables ease of…
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Why Having a Growth Mindset is Vital to Succeed as a Team?
To be able to flourish and thrive as individuals, teams and organisations, we need to move past traditional methods and look at things in a new way – a more humanising way. We need to stop thinking about performance culture as annual appraisals. We need to explore embedding a culture of continuous feedback. Most of…
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How are you growing your career?
Next up in our series of articles exploring the application of strengths, we look at growth and learning: How would you rate the statement: “I have the opportunity to grow and develop in my role”? This leads us to the even more important question of what ‘growth’ and ‘development’ mean to us. Traditionally, and perhaps…
