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Culture Atrophy
November 27^th, 2025 in Blog
For many start-ups and small UK businesses, their culture is one of their strongest assets, giving them an inimitable competitive advantage that can drive tangible results and boost productivity. Healthy cultures often exhibit shared purpose, drive, innovation, genuine relationships, loyalty, adaptability and resilience. However, as companies grow, change direction or face prolonged pressures, their culture can shift and be susceptible to…
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Workplace Curiosity
August 3^rd, 2022 in Blog
There is a LOT to feel challenged by at the moment. Try Googling ‘unpredictable times’ and you get a sense of just how unstable and uncertain our world is right now! While organisations and their people grapple with ongoing political and economic instability, many workplaces have been shifting beyond recognition: Old command and control methods from the 1950’s and 60’s are finally being dismantled in favour of more open…
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Empathy at Work
July 13^th, 2021 in Blog
The New Super Power? I remember reading a pre-Covid Forbes article in 2019 in which the author was challenging those who referred to empathy as a “soft fluffy skill”, advocating its importance in the workplace to aid co-operation, innovation and influence. Two years on and we are living in a very different world, with new threats and challenges, so is empathy being viewed any differently? According to the employee benefits provider…
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Corporate Courage
October 25^th, 2019 in Blog
It’s not easy out there for those managing small businesses. Never before have businesses had to navigate such a complex and rapidly changing world. Indeed, the current Brexit debacle is now being described as a challenging ‘VUCA’ scenario. VUCA being the US military acronym coined during the cold war, which stands for: Volatility; Uncertainty; Complexity and Ambiguity! How can small businesses steer their people through such unchartered…
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Neurodiversity at Work
March 28^th, 2018 in Blog
Neurodiversity is a collective term that refers to people who have neurological conditions such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD or dyspraxia. These are known as spectrum conditions, with a wide range of characteristics, but which nevertheless share some common features in terms of how people learn and process information. Some of these conditions are referred to as Specific Learning Difficulties. However, Neurodiversity is a broader term used to…
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Culture Atrophy

Workplace Curiosity

Empathy at Work

Corporate Courage

Neurodiversity at Work