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- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 8, 2018
What I love about an approach like Dr Bradberry has suggested is that if you know that conflict isn't really your thing - you can try some of these out. You can practise. Almost always that will be better than remaining passively silent or losing it to aggression.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 7, 2018
Ask someone who doesn't know the team or the workplace to do a walk through. Ask them to observe what they saw about the environment the way that people interacted with each other, what the general 'feel' was.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 6, 2018
If you don't want that sort of behaviour to be part of your culture - ultimately - you need to make a decision to do something about it. It's unlikely the asshole is going to come to that conclusion of their own volition and just suddenly change.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 5, 2018
Cultural fit (or lack thereof) is one of the key reasons that employees don't work out. So it makes sense that when you're recruiting you're conscious of this.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 4, 2018
Sometimes, we can be focussed on the end result - that we forget that for those that are not intimately involved in the process, that they may not see what we think they are seeing. They don't necessarily see the end result or get the "why".
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 2, 2018
As soon as you start seeing a team member as a human being - you start seeing them in a different light, particularly if the relationship has been a bit fraught to date. You can build connections -"oh you grew up in the country - I did too."
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 1, 2018
The main point that the article points out is that all organisations should be like this. It's price of entry behaviour (albeit, hard for some to live by it seems).. Values should be what makes your organisation different; they should show a bit of your DNA.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / June 30, 2018
What would they want to know that would ease concern over a change, or angst over some gossip that's doing the rounds?
- By Tammy Tansley
- / May 22, 2018
It's why when you're overwhelmed, you lose your car keys constantly, or forget the most obvious of things.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / May 16, 2018
Unpicking leadership means that you go into it with eyes wide open, rather than with rose coloured glasses.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / May 8, 2018
This is about where an organisation gets itself in a mess, and rather than face up to the systematic issues that have caused the mess, instead points the stick at one person.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / April 24, 2018
There was a bit of a dustup at the fish and chips shop last night....
- By Tammy Tansley
- / April 17, 2018
But, we know that money is a dissatisfier. You are dissatisfied if you perceive you don't have enough. Either in real terms or in relative fairness terms. Beyond a certain amount, money in and of itself doesn't motivate employees.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / April 9, 2018
It’s no longer a matter of thinking “if we can just get through this period of x”, it will all be ok, and we will go back to life as usual. Change is the new usual. And it’s not going to go away.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / March 26, 2018
It's not how we like to think of leadership. Usually, when we say the word leadership we have a positive, heroic image in mind. Nonetheless, leadership it is.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / March 22, 2018
And although we may not have given the feedback, we often act as though we have. We expect the person to get better. To do things differently and then get annoyed when they don't.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / March 20, 2018
If we can understand what we implicitly believe to be leadership, we can start to challenge some of those theories. We can also work out what that means for us and our leadership style and approach.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / March 9, 2018
This is where a man and a woman undertake the SAME job and do NOT receive the same remuneration. This is the area where many of the ranting Linkedin posts occur: "I get paid the same as the women I work with".
- By Tammy Tansley
- / February 24, 2018
The first few months of 2018 has seen me chat to the press on a variety of different topics. Here's a quick round up for those that missed it
- By Tammy Tansley
- / February 19, 2018
Without doubt - the world needs constructive debate more than ever. Silent, seething disagreement doesn't further any argument. But, and this is a big but, as with so many things - it is HOW you do it. Disagree for sure. Have a different opinion for sure. But if you want your personal and employment brand to thrive, think about how you go about making that point so that the point is heard, rather than just your behaviour being seen.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / February 12, 2018
Every single successful person I have ever spoken to cites learning more from failure than from easy success. But perfection, by its very nature doesn't allow for those bumps or squiggles.
