by Michelle | Jun 22, 2022 | Change Management, Effective Teamwork, Hybrid Working, Leadership
March 2020, and the whole country (where applicable) was asked to work from home. There were no ifs or buts about it—you were either a keyworker who worked on our nation’s front line and tasked with continuing your usual routine, or you had to adapt to working...
by Michelle | Apr 17, 2022 | Change Management
When big changes are proposed within a business, some companies focus on the wrong things. Take a look at the recent P&O Ferries staffing disaster in the UK. Whether it was the correct move to make so many people redundant or not is perhaps a matter for the...
by Michelle | Apr 7, 2022 | Change Management, Leadership, News
Why is change management so hard? Why do so many change management initiatives fail to successfully achieve the objectives and goals? There are many reasons why change is so hard, but one major reason is that as human beings our brains are programmed for survival,...
by Michelle | Mar 20, 2022 | Leadership
Ruthless Leaders Vs Empathetic Leaders One of the things that set us apart from our closest genetic relations (chimpanzees), is our ability to have complex thoughts, to have visionary dreams and plans, and to master languages in order to communicate with others of our...
by Michelle | Feb 14, 2022 | Leadership, Resilience
In some cases—not in every one, of course—people taking up the role of manager are employees promoted from their frontline position, who are then tasked with leading their colleagues. Certainly, in smaller companies, this can be quite common. There are many advantages...
