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November 6, 2019

Let's Talk About Stress...

Today is Stress Awareness Day. Stress is something that each of us will face at some point in our lives. Low-level stress will come and go and for the m...
Mark O'Grady
O'Grady
Mental health & wellbeing
November 4, 2019

"His private life should remain private!"

The newspapers are full of the dismissal of Steve Easterbook, Chief Executive of McDonalds, today. Working at my desk with a radio phone-in on in the ba...
Behaviour at work
Leadership
Culture & change
October 23, 2019

Work in its proper place

Recently I revamped our values slightly. It was a visual thing: #4 Connecting with people was two sentences longer than the other three. It looked wrong...
Matt Dean
Dean
Mental health & wellbeing
Culture & change
October 11, 2019

Mindful Business Charter and lawyers' purpose - it is a hard and hugely important job you do

It was obviously a huge joy and privilege to facilitate last night's event to celebrate the first anniversary of the Mindful Business Charter and to wel...
Richard Martin
Martin
Mental health & wellbeing
October 7, 2019

Work life balance isn't just for one week!

So this week is National Work Life Week. It's such a great reminder for us all to stop and take stock. Of course, as I write this I am sitting on a plan...
Culture & change
September 24, 2019

Six short lessons on comfort zones, primal fear and introversion

When I agreed to descend from the Brighton i360 (a structure 450 feet/138 metres off the ground) outside the pod to raise money for the Samaritans, I ki...
Culture & change
Equity, diversity & inclusion
September 20, 2019

Nudging for Inclusion – inspired by Nudge by Richard.H.Thaler and Cass .R.Sunstein

Over the summer shut down everyone at byrne·dean read books that are of interest to what we do on a day to day basis - creating kinder, fairer, more pro...
Ellie Herriot
Herriot
Equity, diversity & inclusion
September 12, 2019

Regulators focus on personal (not just professional) conduct

In our awareness raising work with regulated professionals, their accountability to regulators is a central theme. Increasingly there needs to be an und...
Matt Dean
Dean
Leadership
Behaviour at work
September 10, 2019

Suicide and the Samaritans

Richard and Mark have both published great articles on suicide prevention today.  I wanted to add a short note - because I have had the privilege this y...
Mental health & wellbeing
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