5 Brain-friendly strategies to increase staff engagement

Far too many staff feel totally alienated by indifferent management and a lack of belonging at work.  Numerous surveys show that most businesses are suffering from a chronic lack of staff engagement.  But understanding some basic principles about how our brain functions, makes it easier to implement simple strategies that can improve engagement, collaboration and productivity.

Are you being too Harsh or too Permissive?

Managers often fall into the trap of being either too harsh or too permissive.  Both of these traits are due to an imbalance in management style.  The secret of effective management is to understand a number of paradoxes and the ability to balance two opposing behaviours. 

5 Tips to Optimise your Performance

Your brain is very fussy.  Neglecting it causes problems that can undermine your performance by having you overlook important factors, reach faulty conclusions and make poor decisions.  But once you know why it’s so fussy you can practice some simple techniques to optimise your performance.

Using your Inner Director to achieve your goals

As we get used to it being 2015 and consider what the New Year holds in store for us, it is a good time to reflect on what we would like to achieve this year.  Setting and achieving a goal takes commitment and focus and while a lot of people start with best intentions many let their motivation fizzle out and get lost in the busyness of work and personal life.  But there is now a simple a way to tap into your deepest resources so you can focus on achieving results.   It involves the latest scientific thinking and knowing how to access your ‘Inner Director’.

13 Tips for saying ‘No’

Anyone can say Yes.  Saying Yes is easy.  When we say Yes people like us because it’s a simple way to avoid confrontation or argument.  However, when you say Yes, what are you actually saying No to?  What are you sacrificing?

Are you engaging in enough Candid Conversations?

There is no getting away from the simple fact that effective management is about effective communication.  Survey after survey is also telling us that on average 70% of employees are disengaged from their work.  What is going on?  What are managers missing?  As is often the case, the answer is surprisingly simple . . .

Demystifying Teamwork

One of the classic questions in management is ‘Why do some teams outperform others?’  There are thousands of books on the topic of teamwork and many people call it an Art rather than a Science because of all the variables.  But some very sophisticated scientific research is throwing an interesting light on the subject.