Month: April 2022

  • How to help people through workplace change in three easy steps.

    How to help people through workplace change in three easy steps.

    Change in the workplace can be traumatic; most of us are pre-programmed to dislike change, but in the workplace, somehow, the stakes are even higher. Change in the workplace needs managing, and having access to powerful change tools is a great start when helping people navigate change in the workplace. In this video, Rob walks…

  • Is it time to stop time-management and manage you instead?

    Is it time to stop time-management and manage you instead?

    Someone, probably a past manager, will have talked to you about time management at some point in your working life.  You won’t be alone if these conversations have left you feeling that if you could just organise your time a little bit better, you would suddenly become so much more successful. In this podcast, Rob…

  • How to Handle Politics in the Workplace

    How to Handle Politics in the Workplace

    Every organisation suffers from politics in the workplace; it’s how things get done; influencing, cajoling and getting stuff done means we need to know how to handle politics in the workplace. In this video, we share a useful, practical model from Baddeley and James; their work uses animals to describe political behaviours. The Fox, the…

  • Why ‘carrot and stick’ is no longer relevant?

    Why ‘carrot and stick’ is no longer relevant?

    In this episode of the podcast, we explore motivation.  Ricky and Paul consider why the typical motivational strategy of rewards and consequences (Carrot and Stick) might not be getting the best out of your team.  They consider why this approach is so common when it has such a limited impact, and discuss alternative strategies that…