Applied positive psychology (APP) in the workplace is more than being happy at work. It’s having the knowledge and skills to apply basic positive interventions in one’s life.

Jonathan Raymond is one of the popular speakers at WBECS, and has shared this coaching tool with us! Tool title: Guide to Great One on One Meetings The tool is a PDF you can download using the red button at the bottom that says, “Download Article” Tool Benefits: How to ask non-superficial questions Best practices for structuring 1:1s How to get …

Over the years, it has been noticed that different kinds of people treat and use the ‘future’ differently.

There is often a lack of awareness as to how the benefits of individual executive coaching programmes can effectively be realized across the wider system.

This extensive annotated bibliography draws on scholarly papers from the behavioural science literature as presented in PsycINFO, Business Source Premier and Dissertation Abstracts International,

Many decisions made during an individual's typical day are made in a distracted state. This process works well until some external event injects itself into the process.

Sector: Public Sector – Health Advisory Service Assignment: Inform and Develop Management Information Period: 2011 Background We worked with one of the upper tier senior leaders, an Associate Divisional Director responsible for Governance and Professional Standards where patient safety was paramount. The assignment involved undertaking data analysis on several aspects of the organisation’s activities to help inform and communicate new …

In a modern organizational context, there is a style of leadership that focuses not so much on personal bravery in defending the organization against an external enemy as on the capacity of the leader (as manager) to instill organizational bravery in those with whom this leader works.

In the modern world, the role of leader merges with that of manager. The successful leader, in other words, is a successful manager—and management can be taught and managers can be created. Managers operating in modern organizations are not born into greatness nor do they necessarily need external forces (such as enemies) or auspicious circumstances (an appropriate vision at the …

Examine your behavior and identify when and where you may jump the chain – including with frontline workers. What are your triggers - directives that you don’t see being implemented, breakdowns in procedure, waste being generated?