Engagement
New Productivity in the New Hybrid Work Week
How confident are you in your employee’s productivity when they work from home? One year into the pandemic, Harvard Business Review found that 40% of supervisors and managers felt low confidence in their ability to manage remote workers. Additionally, 36% expressed...
Developing a Complexity Mindset to Create an Agile Workforce
The 21st century has been anything but predictable. Experts have long been touting the need for a complexity mindset. But the pandemic completely overturned any remaining sense of normalcy and constancy we may have been clinging to. Businesses have been born,...
Bring the Outdoors Indoors for Better Workplace Health
Rosalyn Cama, president of Cama Inc., an interior design firm, used to run an informal poll when she went to conferences. She would ask hundreds of designers to recall a time when they were extremely stressed. She then asked them where they would like to go if they...
Why You Should Focus on Executive Coaching
One of the most important roles of a leader is to develop leadership skills in others. As a leader, it’s your job to identify and develop other leaders within your organisation. You hold the vision and set the direction for those working under you. You also set the...
Kindness in the Workplace
The idea of kindness in the workplace can feel at odds with the often competitive nature of office life. However, more and more focus is being placed on inclusion, well-being and happiness. And kindness plays a strong role in achieving those things. There are numerous...
5 Disability Inclusion Team-Building Activities
In spite of existing laws to eliminate discrimination, persons of determination often struggle with finding inclusion in the workplace. In many ways, this has been exacerbated by the pandemic. With still many employees working remotely, there’s less visibility on...
4 Ways You can Support Employees with Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease that not only elevates risk levels for other health issues such as heart issues. It also causes a drain on the medical system. The International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) found that diabetes costs the planet USD 760 billion per...
Workplace Health, Safety and Well-Being
Managing workplace health, safety and well-being is a more challenging endeavour now than ever before. A recent survey showed that UAE employees are among the most stressed in the world. Technology, which was already changing the workplace, seemed to advance forward...
Talk Money Week
It’s almost always uncomfortable. It’s sometimes inappropriate. It’s rarely a polite dinner table conversation… It’s money talk. In spite of all of the discomfort and negativity associated with talking about money, research shows that people who have open...
3 Keys to Empowering Your Employees’ Personal Development
You want your employees to grow. Your employees want to grow. But what’s the best way to encourage personal development? If you’ve ever implemented personal development plans and been unhappy with the results, it could be because of one important factor. Personal...
Overcoming Challenges in Leadership Training
Are leadership programmes producing good leaders? If you’re shipping your potential leaders to an off-campus leadership seminar, chances are you’re not getting the results you’d like to. Many leadership courses and trainings focus on a proprietary “method” or system....
Ribbons are Great… Screenings are Better!
Studies show that the age of diagnosis for breast cancer patients is 10 years younger in the UAE than in the rest of the world. This means that breast cancer awareness isn’t just for your female employees over the age of 40. To offer your employees the support they...