As we move into 2025, creating a healthy workplace culture has never been more critical. Studies show that toxic culture is 12 times more likely than compensation to predict employee turnover and that it costs U.S. businesses alone nearly $225bn annually in hiring costs as a result of toxic culture. But often, statistics and research […]

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Toxic culture is the biggest risk to organisation results and reputation. It not only undermines results – unhappy people are significantly less productive, than happy ones – it also leads to increased workforce mental health issues and even the suicide of employees. Nine News is the latest in a long line of organisations (including Country […]

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‘Every generation blames the one before it and all of their frustrations come beating on your door.’ So said Generation-X social commentators of the 1980s, Mike and The Mechanics. Although they also said ‘Take the children and yourself and hide out in the cellar’… so maybe you should take their preachings with a pinch of […]

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It’s easy to state in a strategy document that well-being is a priority, in the hope of providing fulfillment to every individual. And quite another to do it in practice. Many companies struggle with the development of  strategy and associated approval process. Indeed, the strategy itself can become the source of toxic culture. Some examples […]

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More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around […]

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Leadership constantly changes. It doesn’t stand still. You can’t define it in 2021 and expect it to be the same in 2022. Global and local events, as well as organisational shifts, require leaders to continually look at their behavioural responses. And of course, the pandemic is no different. In times of crisis employees look to […]

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A hybrid working model won’t be a ‘nice to have’ for organisations once we start to live in a COVID-normal world, it will be an expectation that employees have of senior managers. The pandemic has proven – once and for all – that the technology to enable a workforce in multiple locations works exactly as […]

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The removal of requirements to work from home forces business leaders into a decision of how they bring office working back into people’s lives. Whilst there have been benefits of remote working during the pandemic, it doesn’t work as a permanent solution for most teams long-term and many have already seen a decline in engagement […]

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One of the positive things to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the fact that organisations around the world have finally removed the barriers to their staff being able to work from home. There were never any technological barriers to people doing so, most of the issues centred around a lack of trust in […]

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Every year consulting firm Deloitte produces a survey that captures the current zeitgeist with regards to working culture. Called the Deloitte Millennial Survey it asks a range of questions with regards to the thoughts and feelings that the latest generation of workers have towards business. I’ve been reading the reports for the last four years, […]

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