How Organizations Can Learn from Failures Failure is a common occurrence in business as in wider life. No one sets out to fail but accepting that it happens allows organisations to mitigate the impacts and learn useful lessons. Indeed, failure can present learning opportunities and help to drive organisational improvement. And, in fact, [...]

Welcoming and Intergrating New Remote Recruits Studies are in consensus that the induction of new employees matters well beyond the end of the onboarding period. If employees experience great onboarding, they are 69% more likely to stay at a company for 3 years. Acing this is a challenge in a normal context, but [...]

How Quality Feedback Can Improve Performance What am I doing well and successfully? What could I do differently? Is there anything that I should be doing that I am not doing nowadays? What should I improve or work on in the near future? These are questions we should ask ourselves to excel and [...]

Improving Employee Engagement In today’s competitive and rapidly evolving business environment, it is critical that organisations engage their workforces, as engaged employees drive business success in numerous areas. Indeed, Gallup found that companies with higher engagement achieved 23% better profitability, 18% less turnover, and 10% higher customer loyalty. There is research which finds [...]

How Organisations can Strengthen Co-Worker Relationships Strengthening working relationships between colleagues is an important priority for organisations, on a human and business level. Team spirit, inclusivity, and effective collaboration are all things that organisations strive to bring out in their employees and fostering strong interpersonal bonds between colleagues helps to achieve these. When [...]

Communicating During Times of Change Effective communication is vital to successful organisational change. When companies bring in new technologies, change processes, or face crises, leaders need the support of employees to succeed. They need to inspire confidence through their words, motivating the workforce and getting their buy-in with the project, mission, or crisis [...]

How to Stimulate Employees to Go the Extra Mile Stimulating employees to go the extra mile can be valuable to organisational performance. It means that, rather than employees fulfilling the minimum requirements of their role, they choose to go above the expectations set for them to further the organisation’s mission, paving the way [...]

Why Self-Confidence is Vital for Leaders In a study by Melbourne University involving employees from large corporations in Melbourne, researchers concluded that “self-confidence is a key determinant of workplace success.” Additionally, Peter Northouse, author of the book Leadership: Theory and Practice, considers self-confidence as one of the 5 leadership traits, along with determination, [...]