Making the Most of Your Retirement Coaching
Why retirement coaching? As life expectancy increases planning for retirement becomes more important. How do we approach retirement taking into account both practical and psychological considerations to ensure a smooth transition? Research shows that we need to prepare psychologically for areas such as decision making, uncertainty, grieving, transition and fulfilment, as well as ensuring financial […]
Finding the positives in a negative situation – Week 6 of our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
The edge of chaos – There is research to suggest that people are at their most creative when there are high levels of unpredictability in an organisation, in other words ‘on the edge of chaos’. Dr Robert Builder suggested that this gives people freedom to explore and it is in this environment creativity flourishes. You […]
Positive Psychology and Happiness
Negative or Positive? Psychology has a long history of focusing on healing and helping people with problems, looking largely at mental ill health and pathology. What if psychology started working more on prevention of problems? This is the premise behind positive psychology. We have strengths that can act as buffers against poor mental health. These […]
Confronting difficult conversations – Week 5 of our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
If there is a difficult situation within your workplace it is important to communicate this to your employees. This goes along with transparency, you may need to have some difficult conversations in order to be transparent. Research has shown that when we decide to ignore a situation rather than speak up it is likely to […]
Understand how your employees feel – Week 4 of our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
The Change Curve – It is important to understand how your employees can be affected by change. The change curve demonstrates the typical phases people go through when experience change, whether this is a major change, such as losing a job, or a small change, such as moving offices. The stages are as follows: Stage […]
Take a structured approach to change – Week 3 of our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
Impact Analysis -This has some similarities to Force Field Analysis, however it is more about identifying potential consequences of change and preparing for these by identifying how you would manage in that situation. Look at the broad picture of the organisation and consider how some of the larger changes might filter down and affect your […]
Take a planned approach to change – Week 2 of our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
A technique called Force Field Analysis, originally developed by Kurt Lewin, is a tool to help you put the coming change into perspective and to plan how you can take action to mitigate potential outcomes of the change. To carry out force field analysis you begin by listing all of the restraining forces which will […]
Openness and transparency – The first in our ‘Top Tip Tuesday’ series on Managing Change Effectively for Leaders
Being transparent as a leader has multiple benefits, and in a time of change and uncertainty it is vital to keep your employees engaged and take control of the situation. This will build a level of trust for your employees and help to prevent unnecessary fears. Employees will be more likely to share their thoughts […]
PPMA Award – Highly Commended
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded highly commended at the recent PPMA awards for our work with Calderstones Partnership NHS foundation Trust in the category of change and transformation. It is great to see such benefits for service users and colleagues. You can read more about our work with Calderstones Partnership […]
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