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Counterintuitive strategies to improve your Diversity & Inclusion program

Imagine this. You are a leader with the best intentions of creating a diverse workplace where people of all ethnicities, beliefs and genders feel included and able to perform at their best. Then, you find out the initiatives that you have implemented to create an inclusive workplace are actually producing…

Charlotte Rush • 9 November 2021

An Unusual STEP for Onboarding Remotely

So, you’re a leader at what is *usually* an office-based workplace but you’re currently in lockdown, working from home. Your team is expanding, and you’ve just hired the peeeeerfect person (yay!). She starts Monday! But wait. You’ve never onboarded remotely?? Well, by reading this article you’re taking a STEP in…

Evelina Bereni • 9 November 2021

Working from home? 3 tips to kick the procrastination habit

Despite the fact that Tim Herrera edits the Smarter Living section for the New York Times which covers how we can build better habits for work and life, Herrera is a procrastinator. But after editing a piece on procrastination for the Times, by Charlotte Lieberman,…

Dr. Amantha Imber • 9 November 2021

Three ways to make Deep Work a Habit using your Google Speaker

Change is hard and even knowing something is good for us won’t make doing it more enticing. A 2013 study shows that even after a near-death cardiovascular experience, only 4.3% of the people in the study made changes to their smoking, diet and exercise habits, which sounded crazy to my brain.

Evelina Bereni • 9 November 2021

Three ways to stay connected to your customers in a virtual world

Holding a steady-state and maintaining business-as-usual (BAU) activities has been the focus for many organisations. Or put another way, ‘survival’. However, a lot has changed over the past 18 months, and what was important to your customers previously, may now not be. If you’re not paying close attention, your BAU…

Zoe Aitken • 9 November 2021

Three things leaders can do to inspire growth

The spotlight has never shone more brightly on leaders than right now. The phrase ‘sink or swim’ comes to mind when we think about how leaders have had to navigate through the COVID storm. They have had to blindly steer their organisations, without any precedent on what success looks like.

Zoe Aitken • 9 November 2021

Three strategies to improve your decision-making process

How much of your time at work is spent making decisions? Is it 10%, or perhaps closer to 50%? When you reflect on the various hats you wear, projects you are across and tasks you are responsible for, the sheer amount of time spent solely on decision making…

Charlotte Rush • 9 September 2021

Why mindfulness will help you smash your work goals

How often do you find yourself mindlessly working on something? Perhaps you are sitting in a meeting and you catch yourself mentally noting down your groceries to pick up tonight. Maybe you are working on a report,…

Charlotte Rush • 23 August 2021

Science-backed strategies to unleash change in your people

Ex-Chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch said: “I’m convinced that if the rate of change inside the institution is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight.” There has been a lot of change thrust upon organisations over the last 12 months. But, as Welch highlights,…

Charlotte Rush • 23 August 2021