by Antony Tinker | Feb 9, 2024 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Mentoring/Coaching, Personal growth
As we progress through our career – and indeed, life – feedback from those around us can be hugely instructive in helping us to hone our talents and make progress. Good feedback i.e. praise, can make both the giver and the receiver feel great, but when we need to...
by Antony Tinker | Nov 17, 2023 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership
I’ve been trying to break the back of my Christmas shopping recently but find myself struggling with what to get for people for who seem to ‘have everything’. I don’t want to buy something just for the sake of it and I want to give them a gift that is meaningful and...
by Antony Tinker | Jun 16, 2023 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership
Leadership is traditionally considered to be a fairly solitary existence, but I would argue that there is a significant role for collaboration in leadership. Wherever we spend our time as humans, we are part of a collective – a team, a community, a family – and...
by Antony Tinker | Jun 2, 2023 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Personal growth
Leadership brings many pressures to bear. There are numerous demands on your attention and your time and, to put it bluntly, many people feel there is no room for compassion in the workplace. But there is robust evidence that a compassionate leader boosts the...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 23, 2023 | Employee Engagement, Leadership
We increasingly encounter organisations with a matrix structure, where people may be working in several different project teams, sometimes leading, sometimes not. Known as leading without authority, it is often the case that a person is required to lead others who are...
by Antony Tinker | Sep 30, 2022 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance
Back in August, the term ‘quiet quitting’ started to get a lot of attention, after a video went viral on TikTok. Defined by the poster as “not quitting your job, but quitting going above and beyond at work”, quiet quitting is a new term for an age-old problem. But...
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