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Play at work to increase results

October 21, 2016
/ leadership learning team teamwork
/ By lucy barkas

Play in the workplace doesn’t mean less work We don’t stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing” George Bernard Shaw Play isn’t just fun. Everyone understands

What is Everything DiSC workplace?

October 18, 2016
/ coaching Disc
/ By lucy barkas

Everything DiSC Workplace profile helps your team to connect, understand and build strong working relationships. We start with an individual and create a full workshop to help your team develop and form. Save

Collaboration – the rising philosophy

July 22, 2016
/ business Disc entrepreneur
/ By lucy barkas

Collaboration, the new business mind set Back when I started my career, some twenty years ago, I was told some facts about work that I held as truth. Work was hard, it was a dog eat dog world and I was

Intimidating or misunderstanding?

July 12, 2016
/ coaching conflict Disc learning strength
/ By lucy barkas

Intimidating Managers This week I attended a presentation on dignity in the workplace hosted by MFG solicitors. We discussed the legal position of bullying and harassment and the impact individuals

Pay it forward – the gift of great leaders

May 4, 2016
/ confidence ego empowerment leadership learning
/ By lucy barkas

Pay it forward – The gift of the leader Remember what is was like in your twenties, when you first entered the workplace. Everything was new and exciting. You went boldly into the world, with

Measuring the wrong thing

April 11, 2016
/ goals
/ By lucy barkas

Measuring doesn’t increase results I told a little story last week to a group of senior HR leaders about ditching the old Rank and Yank performance management systems and try something fresh. How

Redundancy. A devastating bombshell or birth of opportunity?

March 8, 2016
/ Career coaching confidence
/ By lucy barkas

Just another redundancy It seems that more and more of us will encounter that defining call or conversation with ur manager at some point, to tell us that our role is at risk due to this restructure, or

Performance Management – a lesson in spellings

February 29, 2016
/ confidence empowerment goals leadership
/ By lucy barkas

Performance management in practice Performance management is so simple, yet it is also the one of the hardest processes to get right. In fact 75% of HR managers agree that performance management is either

Stand for what you believe.

February 2, 2016
/ empowerment leadership vision
/ By lucy barkas

Stand for what you believe Over the last few weeks I am being drawn to, or seeing the connections between people who are making a stand for what they believe. Take David Bowie. We loved him for many reasons,