It’s a funny thing. In some ways, it feels it’s never been easier to arrange a chat with someone; both personally and professionally. But I wonder whether online conf calls have had their day.
What has been lost or gained socially since *insert spiky bug name here*? Read More »
As a Business Psychologist, I love to help solve people problems – the messy ones. The ones I am privileged to investigate in organisations are almost invariably complex or ‘wicked’ in some way: those with competing tensions and require layers of fixing.
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The top ways that a Business Psychologist can help you are varied but they are all about getting the best out of people
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I must admit, I wanted to be Cracker (the antiheroic criminal psychologist) instead when I was younger. For the Gen Yer and Gen Zers out there, think Hagrid mixed with Sherlock and you’re weirdly spot on. All until I lay awake at 3am one night with the realisation that I wasn’t very good with a)
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We really are currently in a peculiar social place aren’t we? Â For the many of us who have been lucky to remain well, we have created a little life bubble for ourselves. What I consistently see as we cautiously emerge from those individual bubbles, is the sense that we have all been on different journeys
How do we build trust within teams now? Read More »
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m racially biased. Before your jaw drops, I’d like to add that you are too. That’s the funny thing about unconscious bias. It’s unconscious. If we weren’t biased, our brains would frazzle from the sensory load we would need to
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Love the John Lewis report on its gender pay gap. They have clearly looked at and explained the numbers so clearly that any audience can understand the merits and limits of the methodology currently employed to understand the gender pay gaps. Enjoy the read here. Absolutely…. “What we must not do is fall into the
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Although fundamentally well intentioned, the Government’s requirement for employers of more than 250 employees to start reporting staff pay in 2017 could have an unfair impact on the reputation of many employers.
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We all admire a strong leader. They help people feel they can move mountains when faced with the impossible. As with all personality types though, great strengths are always combined with a downside. So are those with the big personalities best placed as the figurehead of your organisation or someone to avoid placing at the
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Like 100 other people, I attended a talk yesterday evening by Prof Clive Boddy from Middlesex University. He shared his research into who can be considered a ‘corporate psychopath’ (CP) and why they can do serious damage to an organisation – destroying customer, employee and community relations – whilst senior managers may be none-the-wiser about
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