Tag: Performance

From Reflection to Transformation: Leveraging Coaching for Growth and Success in 2025

Written on 18th December 2024. Posted in News.

As we approach 2025, it’s crucial to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Reflection is the cornerstone of growth, offering leaders a chance to assess past achievements, identify blind spots, and re-align priorities. Employees who spend 15 minutes at the end of the day reflecting on their learnings see a 23% improvement in performance. Reflection transforms insights into forward-focused...

Maximising Success Through Employee-Organisational Values Alignment

Written on 25th September 2024. Posted in News & Views.

Values are fundamental personal beliefs and principles that guide an individual’s behaviours and key decisions, and they are typically shaped by upbringing, culture and experiences. Individual values vary widely between people and can relate to the goals we aim to achieve, the people we choose to form relationships with and the organisations that we choose to work for. Many organisations also...

Time to Think: How Slowing Down Can Boost Your Productivity

Written on 28th August 2024. Posted in News & Views.

In the modern world of work, the pressure to deliver results swiftly can often lead to a compromise on the quality of our work. The paradox is that in our race to be efficient, we may actually be doing the opposite: producing lower-quality work and burning ourselves out. The key to reversing this trend? Slowing down. According to Nancy Kline’s groundbreaking work in “Time to Think,”...

Employee recognition is not just a courtesy; it’s a necessity

Written on 20th December 2023. Posted in News.

In the modern workplace, the importance of employee recognition cannot be overstressed. In a world marked by continual change and evolving workplace dynamics, acknowledging and appreciating your team’s efforts is not just a courtesy; it’s a strategic necessity. Unleashing Potential Through Recognition Recognition is about highlighting and reinforcing the genuinely positive behaviours...

Our 5 Pillars For Perpetuating Organisational Success

Written on 29th November 2023. Posted in News.

As Business Psychologists, our 5 pillars for perpetuating organisational success provide a foundation for us to leverage our expertise in and experience of behavioural science to deliver evidence-based solutions for key challenges facing organisations, enabling positive and high-performing working environments. Our 5 pillars are: Performance Without high-level performance, success will remain a...

Playing to Our Strengths

Written on 27th September 2023. Posted in News.

Strengths are defined as things that we are good at, but that we also enjoy doing. People who use their strengths report higher levels of wellbeing, motivation, career success and self-confidence and lower levels of stress. Crucially for organisations, research has shown that using strengths-based approaches brings commercial success, higher customer engagement, higher staff engagement and retention. Strengths...

Building Positive Workplace Habits

Written on 26th July 2023. Posted in News.

Building positive habits at work can help us to progress towards our goals and achieve our potential at work. Knowing where to start when building these positive habits is difficult, but with the right knowledge and support, we can begin to promote positive habits and reduce negative ones. What are habits? Very simply, habits are behaviours that we engage in frequently and repeatedly. From a psychological...

Maximising Employee Performance Through Compassionate Leadership

Written on 23rd February 2023. Posted in News.

Compassion can be defined as “sensitivity to suffering/distress in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it” Cole-King and Gilbert, 2011. Compassionate leadership creates the right environment for individuals to enable them to reach their full potential and feel respected and valued at work [1]. It is about building close relationship thus giving us a sense of belonging...

Benefits of a Strength-Based Approach

Written on 26th January 2023. Posted in News.

The strength-based approach refers to a ‘work practice theory’ that focuses on individuals self-determination and strength. This approach brings awareness to individuals of the value that they can offer by being their authentic self through encouraging them to maximise their strengths rather than focusing on their weaknesses and development needs [1,2,3]. In this article, we will be exploring, the...