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Why Your Exit Interviews Aren’t Telling the Whole Story...
If you’re waiting for exit interviews to uncover what’s driving turnover, you’re already too late. By the time employees sit down for...
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Jul 61 min read


Three approaches to improving employee engagement
There’s an increasing awareness of the importance of employee engagement in organizational impact. When figures like ‘US employee...
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Aug 7, 20242 min read


“Hear about the proposed update?” “Hairy Paul proposed to Kate?!?” Poor communication and doomed organizational change.
Change is essential for continued organizational success but can be confusing and exhausting for staff, especially if communication is poor.
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Jul 17, 20242 min read


How does an employee engagement rate of 23% impact your organization?
How does low levels of employee engagement impact your organization, and what can you do about it?
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Jun 26, 20242 min read


"Raise those knees, Brad, and stop sweating into the kale smoothies, Tanisha!"
There is no mental health without physical health, and there is no physical health without mental health.
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Jun 4, 20242 min read


"Most people think we’re doing OK. I think."
If you can’t change what you don’t measure, but you don’t know how to measure something, will it ever change?
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May 24, 20242 min read


“Should I bother with this employee engagement/wellbeing/organizational health stuff?” Probably not.
Not sure if you could be bothered implementing a wellbeing initiative? Then don't.
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May 10, 20242 min read


The annual health check-up that doesn’t involve cold hands or large needles
Like an annual physical, avoiding a regular organizational health check-up won't make your problems magically go away...
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May 2, 20242 min read


Wellbeing frameworks and spaghetti clock towers
To most people, the term ‘wellbeing framework’ makes as much sense as the term ‘spaghetti clock tower’. Which is fair. And delicious...
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Apr 18, 20242 min read


Defining workplace wellbeing through interpretative dance
This is the result when I asked an AI image generator to create ‘wellbeing at work’: Where to start… Let’s address the elephant in the...
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Apr 8, 20242 min read


Frustrating day vs Frustrating job
Scenario 1. You’ve never owned Lego but somehow, as you jump out of bed, 25 minutes late on a Monday morning, you stand on a particularly...
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Apr 3, 20242 min read


More than candles and mindfulness
A variation of this conversation happens more often than you’d think: Person 1 (at a dinner party): Paul, I hear you do wellbeing too!...
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Mar 26, 20242 min read


How ‘wellbeing’ is like ‘quantum mechanics’
Quantum mechanics is one of those terms that gets used by TV and movie characters to sound intelligent, and by writers of TV shows and...
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Mar 26, 20243 min read
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