How has your Covid-19 workplace experience shifted since the first Lockdown? Back in June, we launched the first of our Crisis Culture Insight reports, exploring organisations’ coronavirus challenges and how they were dealing with them. With the crisis continuing and parts of the UK entering a...
Kevin Edwards asks if the Coronavirus crisis is an opportunity for a cultural reset, does organisational start-up provide any clues on how to achieve this? We’ve likely heard the phrases ‘new normal’, ‘next normal’, and even ‘Covid now, Covid next’ many times now. Leaders are being...
If COVID-19 has sharpened everyone’s focus on risk, how can we harness this and reflect the learnings into a better and safer culture for the future? This was the topic of a fascinating panel discussion that we held last week, with contributions from safety leaders representing...
Ella NilaKanthi Ford explores why a new kind of leadership is needed to help organisations move forward safely in these changing and challenging times. We’re in a new era - at least it feels like it. The entire business world can press its reset button. ...
Technology and travel is allowing companies to reach out across distances, time zones and often, very different, cultures. Ella Nilakanthi Ford looks at the importance of recognising and adapting to these differences, as well as what happens when companies get it wrong… Globalisation is something that...
Active Listening is a powerful tool and one we don’t use enough. Kate Morris looks at why it’s time to stop thinking about what we want to say and start listening – who knows, you might learn something… “Are you listening or waiting to speak?” This was...
What happens when an employee plucks up the courage to challenge a senior manager’s unsafe behaviour and is met with negativity, bordering on rude? Colin Hewson tells how a particularly negative safety conversation had surprising results. Recently, I was working with a small group in a client...
The dream may be over but England football team’s World Cup success has delighted and inspired the nation, bringing the country together in a show of overwhelming support. Manager Gareth Southgate has been widely praised and respected for his management style – he believed in the...
When you’ve got grand ideas for change, there are few things worse than a stick in the mud; especially when that person happens to be your safety manager. Let’s call this person Roger Roadblock. Everyone knows a Roger. They’re essentially good people who rose through the ranks...
Can you inspire trust and confidence, even when you're not there?...