Whose to-do is Psychological Safety? Increasing it in the organisation to become so high performing you compete with Silicon Valley? Is it leadership’s? HR’s only and if so is it L&D? Engagement? Performance? What about comms – should they help? What about Ops? Comps? So far it has been the tech department’s to-do in our…Read More

We need to speak about our technologists again – what are they like? Who are they? Who needs to spend time comprehending them and accommodating their needs? Obviously, the most immediate answer is “the team leader” but anyone who has a vested interest in getting a product job done in a certain time frame and…Read More

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Workplace from Meta, where culture and technology come together to create a more productive future of work. Check out www.workplace.com/future to learn more. —————————————————————————————– Yesterday’s article was speaking about the fact that we need to graduate from the talk-about-Psychological-Safety to doing something.  Don’t get us wrong, the awareness phase is more than…Read More

I was looking for an article to send to a journalist that asked for a link and I ended up taking a long stroll down what we were saying roughly a year ago and musing how/if things have changed. A year ago we were writing in this article entitled “Psychological Safety for the team BY…Read More

First of all, an apology – this newsletter hasn’t had this big of a gap before, this is the first time in two years I’ve slacked. I’m very grateful to all the readers who asked how I was and if everything was alright. It definitely is, more than alright, I’ve just been on the road…Read More

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Workplace from Meta, where culture and technology come together to create a more productive future of work. Check out www.workplace.com/future to learn more. —————————————————————————————– In yesterday’s article, we made no secret of the fact that we believe the need for increased EQ is not reduced to leaders but is instead universal and…Read More

Our “broken record” thesis? “We have to normalise doing “the human work” if we expect performance”, you read it here every week. This week I invite us again, to think of Emotional Intelligence. We wrote about it often and as a company, we spent a long time thinking about the topic and its relevance to…Read More

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Workplace from Meta, where culture and technology come together to create a more productive future of work. Check out www.workplace.com/future to learn more. —————————————————————————————– In yesterday’s article, we spoke about the 5 sine qua non steps of defining flexible and remote work and how, if companies haven’t spent the time on each…Read More

We are now quite some time into the big WFH experiment and it’s one we already know succeeded. No one out there, not even the Elon’s and the Jamie’s of the world are trying to claim anything other than the truth – if remote work worked for you and your enterprise at any one point…Read More