This is Part 2 of a previous article. CLICK HERE TO READ PART 1 In this 2 part article Dr. Lise Saugeres and Warren Howard discuss the topics of Organisational Change and Stress. In part 2 Warren and Lise discuss how organisations and staff can use mindfulness techniques to manage and reduce the stress of change. How can organisations reduce the negative...
Read MoreIn this 2 part article Dr. Lise Saugeres and Warren Howard discuss the topics of Organisational Change and Stress. In this first part Warren and Lise discuss the impact of organisational changes on staff Change can create many stresses in organisations. From an employee perspective, it may be the fear of losing one’s job, fear of learning a new skill or shifting to...
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When it comes to improving office culture behaviours and values are not always in harmony. Our values might say we do one thing but how we treat each other may be quite the opposite. Pressure of work, deadlines, conflicting personalities and old habits can all get in the way of us behaving the way we know we should when we signed up to those values on the wall. So...
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You know your team is functioning well when: ideas are flowing freely, people are engaged, there is healthy debate and people are working together to achieve common goals. But what if your team is not performing well: discussions getting bogged down; lack of buy-in; petty arguments and failure to deliver? In his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni...
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It seems one of the things we dread most as business owners or managers, is facing staff over difficult issues, in fact we would rather avoid them than face them. We may feel that by putting them off they will go away but rarely is this the case and if anything, the problem gets worse. Research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (UK) found that 57% of...
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