by Katie Demain Work-as-unusual has not been bad for most of you. In fact, it’s been somewhat better. So we set out to ask you more about it. In particular your time on task when working from home. And you’ve told us how you’ve come up with five clear ways to increase your focus when working […]
Big-up the positive!
There’s a lot that you – our followers and iPPQ respondents – are telling us is going well for you at work at the moment. Really well. Read on to hear about the all-time-high results for time-on-task and employee engagement during Coronavirus months. In 2009, Jessica Pryce-Jones published “Happiness at Work; Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for […]
Leading employee morale
In June, we saw some interesting variations in the responses to the iPPQ. And many of the changes could read as an open letter to management to explain what people are finding hardest at work at the moment, and where they would like some extra support. In the three months up to the end of […]
The tectonic plates are shifting in organizations
One of the first things that really shook me, in more ways than one, was to find myself in the devastating earthquake in Mexico City in 1985. I had always assumed that the ground beneath my feet was solid and would always be so; to walk on, to build on, on which to lay out […]
A personal reflection on the murder of George Floyd
I’m struggling to get my head around the last couple of weeks. Watching that video for 8 seconds is unbearable, never mind for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. The murder of George Floyd is creating difficult questions for everyone. I’m not a black man with a white man’s knee on my neck. I hope to […]