The Workplace Coach
CONCIERGE HR | HR CONSULTING | EXECUTIVE COACHING | WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS | LEADERSHIP
- ARE YOU A MANAGER OR A LEADER?
- HOW TO MANAGE EMPLOYEES BEHAVING BADLY
- “PEOPLE DON’T LEAVE JOBS…”
- THE OPPOSITE OF LEADERSHIP
- WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING FOR YOU?
- WHY YOU NEED A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER…
- CAN YOU PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHAT I’M DOING RIGHT?
- MAKE BETTER DECISIONS
- HOW TO BUILD PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE TEAMS
- THE ONE MISSING INGREDIENT IN YOUR TEAM
- IT’S A TEAM MEETING NOT A CHRISTMAS DINNER
- WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A ‘HOT COALS’ LEADER?
- INVESTING IN YOUR PEOPLE
- HOW WILL OUR KIDS SURVIVE THE WORKPLACE?
- IT’S OKAY TO BE THE BOSS… BUT BE HUMAN FIRST
- 5 TIPS FOR NEW MANAGERS
- MASTERING THE DARK ARTS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- “I’M OFFENDED”… CANCEL CULTURE IN THE WORKPLACE
- SUPERSTAR… OR SUPER PROBLEM?
- THE INFINITE GAME (or THE CARROT CAKE SCENARIO)
- RECOGNISE YOUR MVPs BY INVESTING IN A COACH FOR THEM
- WHEN YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SAY…
- THE MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF LEADING TEAMS
- HOW IS YOUR TEAM MOJO?
- IF YOU ARE GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION…
- 7 ATTRIBUTES OF GREAT BOSSES
- MY NEW BOSS IS BULLYING ME…
- THE WORST MANAGER IN THE COMPANY…
- WHO DOESN’T NEED A COACH?
- BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE BY DOING LESS…
- HOW LONG IS TOO LONG IN THE ONE JOB?
- HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR COFFEE?
- THE ART OF THE ‘DIFFICULT CONVERSATION’
- WHAT GOT YOU HERE…
- ARE YOU TAKING HOSTAGES?
- DO WE NEED TO MEET OR IS AN EMAIL OK?
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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS PROBABLY NOT THE PROBLEM
Many organisations conduct annual employee engagement surveys to track the level of ‘engagement’ in the workforce. The metrics will be based on a range of survey questions asking how people feel about their supervisor, their career development prospects, the recognition they get, the organisational mission, vision and values, and the performance of the executive team. Read more
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OKAY… NOW WHAT DO I DO?
There is a statistic floating around the internet that we make around 35,000 decisions a day. Seems like a lot doesn’t it? These include unconscious decisions that we don’t even think about, like which hand will I use to brush my teeth this morning? Will I turn right or left out of my driveway this Read more
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DO WE NEED TO MEET OR IS AN EMAIL OK?
These days we tend to communicate online a lot of the time. Anyone with a young person in the family will know that the portable supercomputer they call a phone and keep on them at all times of day and night is NOT for making phone calls. It is for tweeting, snapping, gramming, TikTok, WhatsApp, Read more
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ARE YOU TAKING HOSTAGES?
Do you know where Stockholm Syndrome comes from? In August 1973 a bank robbery at the Sveriges Kreditbank in Stockholm didn’t go as planned. The bank robbers held four employees hostage in the bank’s vault for six days. A weird thing happened over those six days. The hostages began to form a bond with their Read more
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WHAT GOT YOU HERE…
A few years ago I was working with a CFO who had come to me for advice on how to deal with her direct reports. She felt that they were not meeting her expectations, that she had to closely monitor them and their work, that she couldn’t trust them to do it her way, that Read more
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THE ART OF THE ‘DIFFICULT CONVERSATION’
As a manager you will have had occasions I’m sure where you knew you needed to have a chat with someone in your team but you just didn’t do it. These situations can pop up at any time and often we might let the opportunity to address the issue slide right by. Why do we Read more
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