As you’d expect, we keep an eye on the cultural challenges we encounter in the organisations we support. Currently, we are tracking more than a dozen common issues, regardless of geography or business vertical. These are the top four. Nice to know you are not alone.
At the end of the day we help you to create a culture where employees contribute more than their contracted minimum. We call this Discretionary Effort.
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If your brain is an average adult human brain, you have more potential than you have ever dreamed of. Your brain is made up of neurons: specialised cells that process electrochemical information. These neurons connect in structures called synapses, where they pass signals to one another. The synapses form neural nets. Neuroscience has revealed that the average adult brain has 86 billion neurons...
If your brain is an average adult human brain, you have more potential than you have ever dreamed of. Your brain is made up of neurons: specialised cells that process electrochemical information. These neurons connect in structures called synapses, where they pass signals to one another. The synapses form neural nets. Neuroscience has revealed that the average adult brain has 86 billion neurons...
Too much talk at work kills productivity. This is one of the findings from a recent study at Currys, the UK retailer, where the main distraction to productivity seen by over a fifth of workers (23%) was talkative colleagues. In his excellent new book Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg identifies three types of productive conversations. Here’s how they can become productive in a work context
Recently I explored the differences between IQ and EQ and suggested that EQ matters more than IQ for so many areas of life. I also revealed that Emotional Intelligence skills aren’t simply innate. In fact, with the correct stimulus and practice, any of us can improve our so-called ‘soft skills’. I happen to know this from personal exposure to Mygrow - a proven EQ development platform pioneered in South Africa a decade ago.
What’s more important for success – IQ or EQ? Do you need one or both; and what’s the right mix? There’s no doubt that leaders, managers and employees are all being judged by a new yardstick. Not just by how smart we are, our training qualifications or years of experience. Increasingly it’s about how well we handle ourselves and other people. Until quite recently people used to think intelligence was just about IQ.