Yesterday we spoke about fear at the top of organisations and leadership teams that are more of a workgroup than a team. If there are no teams, there can be no psychological safety and in the absence of psychological safety, there can be no performance.  In this video, we go one step further and offer…Read More

The fact of the matter is that we have burned out, mental health challenged, actively disengaged and unhappy employees. It is so pervasive and monumental in particular now, in the wake of the pandemic and the midst of heat another war that it’s a miracle any enterprise gets enough productivity out of their mistreated employees…Read More

A crisis of EQ is what we spoke about this week in the other newsletter and we covered both what it looks like and the fact that there are very simple but effective things that can be done.  For tech teams, this appears an even more urgent and less of a “done” ticket for many…Read More

Yesterday we put it to you that we are in a crisis of EQ. We are collectively ill-prepared to interact in a mindful and empathic way and we have insufficient knowledge and practice to analyse our own emotions and the emotions of others. Unfortunately, there is a need to do this analysis which is more…Read More

This is what we have. A crisis of EQ. At every level, from all points of view. All of us. And we must tackle it. EQ/EI, anything you want to call perceiving, understanding and naming our own emotions and those of others around us is lacking across the board. What does that mean? It means the…Read More

Earlier this week we published the “Let’s Get Real About Fear” play as promised last week and we hope it helps some of you reading this. We’ve already had teams reach out and give us some amazing feedback on how they used it and how needed it was, but, as ever, we’re more than happy…Read More

After publishing the “Let’s Get Real About Fear” play yesterday we had so much amazing feedback. There are so many different situations out there… so many teams that are silently wrestling with this. The fact that you don’t hear about the internal turmoil as a team leader should worry you. Your urgent job is to…Read More

As promised last week, as our form of aid for the war in the Ukraine, we created a new play called “Let’s Get Real About Fear” and we are publishing it here today for anyone to use with their teams and it is of course live in the PeopleNotTech Dashboard under the Openness tab in…Read More

Have you seen that meme about being really tired of living through major historical events? Give it a Google if not, it is heartbreakingly spot on for all of us. If anyone sat us down in 2010 or even 2019 and said “Brace yourself – a global pandemic that will bring about millions of deaths…Read More