Insights / David Foggin

Thinking about
people and work.

Articles to explore the questions that arise when people lead, work together and make changes in their organisations.

Leadership development

What are work preferences?

How someone prefers to prepare, decide and contribute can open a useful conversation about their work.

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Teamwork

Play to my preference or yours?

Working relationships need room for both people’s preferences and the demands of the task.

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Culture change

Organisational culture in everyday language and behaviour

Look at the conversations, decisions and routines through which people experience the organisation.

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Culture change

What is change readiness, and how do you assess it?

Readiness is a question about a particular change, the people involved and the support available.

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Culture change

How do you change company culture?

Connect the culture you want with the decisions and working practices people experience.

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Leadership development

The return on coaching: better work, one conversation at a time

Agree what coaching is intended to help with, and how you will review its contribution.

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Teamwork

Psychological safety: what Google found

What makes it possible to ask a question, raise a concern or acknowledge a mistake in a team?

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Hybrid working

What culture are we creating through hybrid working?

Working arrangements need to serve the work, the people doing it and the customers who depend on it.

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Work preferences

Mirror, map and compass: from individual reflection to culture

Use individual, shared and organisational perspectives to ask different questions about the work.

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Leadership development

We do our best work when we can play to our preferences

Explore what helps people contribute while making room for learning, flexibility and the needs of the work.

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Culture change

Disruption: a force for good?

What can an organisation learn by examining its conventions and connecting its culture with the promise it makes?

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Hybrid working

What’s happening to our culture?

Explore how people learn the organisation’s ways of working when teams, locations and tools change.

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Leadership development

Situational Leadership: what can leaders take from it?

Consider direction and support in relation to a person’s task, experience and current circumstances.

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