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World Mental Health Day 2026 asks whether people's experiences are genuinely heard. In most organizations, that starts with how leaders respond when someone speaks up,...

Social value commitments on public sector tenders often end up as afterthoughts. But when they're specific, locally relevant, and backed by real financial benefit, they...

After a career in the Army, Johanne Malin expected corporate life to feel familiar. Instead, she found a different set of unwritten rules nobody had...

Most senior leadership offsites are designed to solve the problem that was written in the brief. The problem in the brief is rarely the real...

Two decades of research into psychological detachment are unambiguous: leaders who switch off properly come back sharper, with no drop in engagement, and their teams...

Who sets the agenda for your one-to-ones changes everything about how they land. Here's why ownership has to be modelled by leaders, not simply instructed.

Most people can't say what they personally gain from hitting their objectives, beyond staying employed. That gap is quietly switching off discretionary effort across most...

Twenty years ago, someone in the audience asked if he could simply agree to be rated a three. It's a question that still explains why...

Twenty-five years of watching organizations train managers well and run performance cycles reliably, and still see no change in behaviour. Here's the three-part diagnosis, and...