Former staff at Brewdog have alleged a “culture of fear” at the beer firm with a “toxic attitude” to junior employees – Read the full article on the BBC News website I find this article fascinating because of the 2 sides to the story. That of the workforce and that of the owners Taking the […]
If, like me, you grew up with adults telling you “I want doesn’t get”, I look back and think now as a coach, I don’t necessarily agree. In fact in many circumstances “I want” actually often gets. As a parent myself now, I appreciate why adults said it. Like the picture above, “I want it […]
Using Values to drive Employee Engagement and behaviour. Are you of an age where you remember how managers in the ’70s and ’80’s especially used to “know best” and applied the “command-and-control” management style? Thankfully it’s very different nowadays When I’m in coaching businesses, I often refer to the difference between “transactional” and “transformational”. Here […]
Did you know that bad or negative emotions are actually good for you? Let me explain. We tend to try and avoid situations and scenarios where we end up feeling sad, anxious, or stressed. These emotions are deemed bad for us and our health after all. Well, there certainly is some truth in this, especially […]
There are so many reasons why people leave a job. For a lot, however, it’s because their managers didn’t show that they cared enough. As an example of this, I was recently in a training session with about 15 people and my trainer asked the audience why people in the room left their last job. […]
OK, so the title was a bit of a red-herring. As we know, people aren’t puppets: …and thank goodness we aren’t. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had Einstein, Shakespeare, Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs… however have you ever worked for a company where you might have felt, even just slightly, treated like a puppet? Have you […]
