Coaching has a long history which can be traced back to Socrates, who believed that individuals learn best when they have ownership of a situation and take some form of personal responsibility for the outcome. Despite this long history the potential for coaching as an organisational development approach has only been recognised in the last […]
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When is it not bullying?
What is bullying? A worker is bullied at work if: a person or group of people repeatedly act unreasonably towards them or a group of workers the behaviour creates a risk to health and safety. Unreasonable behaviour includes victimising, humiliating, intimidating or threatening. Whether a behaviour is unreasonable can depend on whether a reasonable person […]
Understanding change as a significant threat and what to do about it
Change is seen as a threat. Some of the emerging research from neuroscience confirms what we already know – our brains find change hard! We still have brains that are hardwired to seek out reward and avoid threats. The latest research shows that our brains have 5 times more neural networks for avoiding danger than […]
Providing feedback and developing the good performer
It is great to have people in the team who perform really well. One of the goals of a good manager is to encourage and develop all staff to support good performance and hence achieve good results. Definition of a good performer What is a good performer? A good performer is just that, consistently performs […]
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