Difficult conversations at work are inevitable. Most people prefer to avoid conflict. In the workplace, this type of avoidance can look like; failing to address someone’s inappropriate behaviour; refusing to discuss poor performance; or not drawing necessary boundaries with colleagues, for example. The longer a difficult conversation is avoided, the worse the matter often becomes.
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When we were schoolchildren, many of us found ourselves unable to fully enjoy and relax on our Sunday evenings, as we dreaded the school week looming on Monday morning. We dreaded the work, the interactions with people we didn’t feel that close to, overbearing teachers, and panic over how we’d get our assignments finished by
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Domestic abuse is said to affect one in four women, and one in six men in their lifetime. In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 2.4 million adults, aged 16 to 74, had experienced domestic abuse, a figure that jumped significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic, largely down to stay-at-home orders and closures of workplaces
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The term ‘neurodiversity’ describes brain differences in areas such as manner of learning, attention and social skills. Examples of neurodivergence include Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and other learning differences. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 64% of Employers admit to having little or no understanding
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Over the years, countless studies have been carried out, articles and books have been written, and courses have been created on how best to manage our time – how we can manage our time most effectively to get the most done, and how to achieve the greatest levels of productivity in the time that we
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As much as we, as Employers, may invest in solid processes and practices that promote optimum productivity, it will all be short-lived if wellbeing is not a part of the equation. Low levels of wellbeing in the workplace leads to Employee dissatisfaction, poor productivity, absenteeism, and worse, resignations as Employees opt to move to other
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A new report by the charity, Just Like Us, which surveyed 3695 people aged 18 to 25, found that a quarter of LGBT+ young adults went back into the closet when they started work. Reasons cited included feeling psychologically unsafe and the fear of mistreatment, with 19% of LGBT+ young adults stating they had experienced
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While social media is not especially new anymore (its first forms appearing in 1997), its sophistication, popularity and reach has grown at an astonishing rate over the years. We’ve moved from sharing our worlds through simple textual status updates, to showing it in all its glory via snappy, short videos. Many Employers still have a
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March sees the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan, the commemoration of Muhammad’s first revelation and lasts between 29 and 30 days depending on the sighting of one crescent moon to the next. Commencing on Wednesday 22nd March, through to Friday 21st April, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is
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Menopause, including the years leading up to (peri-menopause) and the years after (post- menopause), has always been an issue for many women, with some suffering symptoms more than others, and potentially not fully understanding why or how to successfully manage them. Previous generations didn’t talk much about the menopause and the issues it often brought
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