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February 21, 2020

Rappers, labelling, ‘real racists’ and what to do when you mess up

Quite a week for rappers at award ceremonies. It’s always worth remembering that these glitzy occasions are still workplaces: Katherine Ryan, the comedi...
Matt Dean
Dean
Behaviour at work
February 10, 2020

Sexual harassment training? Certainly. But go large.

If you're an employer, it probably hasn’t escaped your notice that it’s an imperative for you to address sexual harassment. The powerful scrutiny of reg...
Byrne Dean
Behaviour at work
January 30, 2020

No label: How nouns get in the way of fair disciplinary outcomes

“From the evidence, I conclude that the alleged behaviour took place and, in breach of the Bullying and Harassment Procedure, …either a) you are a bully...
Byrne Dean
Leadership
Behaviour at work
January 22, 2020

Cutting the big fear of speaking up down to size

Big things are on my mind as I write this in a food hall at a shopping mall. For one thing, it isn’t any old shopping mall – it’s the biggest shopping m...
Byrne Dean
Behaviour at work
Culture & change
Leadership
December 18, 2019

The pitfalls of “pricing in” some workplace behaviours

A couple of days before the election I was jolted awake by a radio interview. A bookie was being quizzed about the candidates’ odds of success. It went ...
Byrne Dean
Behaviour at work
Culture & change
Leadership
December 16, 2019

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

So, we're now a few days past the UK general election and the dust is starting to settle. I'm not going to wade into the quagmire that is modern British...
Jenny Harrison
Harrison
Culture & change
Behaviour at work
Leadership
December 3, 2019

Because words matter.....

Today my daughter has a spelling test and she has told me that she is not going to write one of the words on her list "sportsmanship", she is going to w...
Ellie Herriot
Herriot
Equity, diversity & inclusion
November 28, 2019

It's that time of year again. Pre-party warnings and a chance to move the dial on inclusion.

HR teams are gearing up to issue the annual pre-party warnings about appropriate behaviour at the works Christmas bash.  In the post-#metoo era some, li...
Byrne Dean
Leadership
Equity, diversity & inclusion
November 18, 2019

First, make your bed. Actions speak louder than words when it comes to workplace behaviours.

The other day I watched as a young man wearing an Extinction Rebellion T-shirt threw his recyclable cardboard into the general rubbish bin. Okay, it mig...
Byrne Dean
Behaviour at work
Culture & change
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