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August 1, 2016

Unconscious bias and Recruitment

I run regular training sessions on interview skills. A large part of what I talk about is unconscious bias and how it impacts recruitment. I always expl...
Culture & change
Equity, diversity & inclusion
July 28, 2016

CIPD research underlining need for workplace mental health strategies

Here's the latest revealing research, this time from the CIPD, highlighting the extent of mental health issues in the workplace and the need for employe...
Richard Martin
Martin
Mental health & wellbeing
July 28, 2016

Good listening...it's not all that easy

I can vividly recall a time when a colleague, let's call her Alice, came to see me to talk about some problems she has been experiencing with someone el...
Culture & change
Leadership
July 26, 2016

Challenging stress (2)

This is the second in a series of short pieces about how our unconscious thinking can create unnecessary stress - so called Negative Automatic Thoughts ...
Richard Martin
Martin
Mental health & wellbeing
July 26, 2016

How trust leads to better performance

The dictionary definition of trust is as follows - "to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reli...
Behaviour at work
July 25, 2016

Challenging stress (1)

You know that feeling as stress begins to rise - your heart rate rises, perhaps your breathing gets faster and shallower, perhaps you start to shake a l...
Richard Martin
Martin
Mental health & wellbeing
July 22, 2016

Abolishing performance ratings not without risk

Here's some interesting research insight into the perils of abandoning performance ratings.  The thinking tends to be that imposing performance rat...
Richard Martin
Martin
Culture & change
Behaviour at work
July 21, 2016

Being a good boss = being better at giving feedback

There is lots of advice out there providing practical steps managers can take to become better managers. A lot of it is simple and good advice. The arti...
Behaviour at work
Leadership
Culture & change
July 21, 2016

How to be an inclusive leader

Being fully inclusive is hard. It's just not how our brains are hardwired. Our unconscious thought processes tell that it feels safer, easier if we stay...
Equity, diversity & inclusion
Leadership
Behaviour at work
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