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effective teams

Create Effective Teams that Deliver High Performance and Productivity

Holst’s Master Trainer Sara Jobson explains how to develop effective teams across your organisation – where to start, how to do it and what to measure. Great teams don’t just happen, says Sara. Poor teamwork is the silent assassin in the workplace. It undermines workplace effectiveness, the attainment of organisational objectives and business goals. As

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team skills training

Improve Your Workplace Culture With Better Team Skills

Teams must have a strong portfolio of multiple interpersonal skills to create and maintain a healthy workplace culture. When we think of team-building and training, memories of raft-making on muddy river banks may spring to mind. Fortunately that’s not how we approach team development at Holst. Let’s look at workplace skills training that actually benefits

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workplace culture

What Makes a Healthy Workplace Culture?

Work on your workplace culture with stronger professional relationships and teams that work well together, day to day and under pressure. What is Workplace Culture? A workplace culture is the shared values, belief systems, attitudes and the set of assumptions that people in a workplace share. Definition – Dr Pragya Agarway, Forbes.com 2018 While the

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flowprofiler series

The flowprofiler® Series – Driving Excellence at Work

With greater emotional intelligence, resilience and motivation, teams and individuals are able to maintain morale, increase engagement and generally help the organisation be a much healthier workplace. The last twelve months have seen huge change to workplace dynamics, continuing uncertainty and unprecedented pressure because of a pandemic that few had planned for. While it might

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Employee engagement

Everyday Employee Enagement

Employee engagement shouldn’t be just for the Christmas party, it’s for every day of the whole employee lifecycle. What is an Engaged Employee? “One who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work. They take positive action to further the organisation’s reputation and interests. They have a positive attitude towards the organisation and its

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Employee Value Proposition

5 Fundamental Ways to Develop Your Employee Value Proposition

Now might seem an odd time to evaluate your Employee Value Proposition, but if you leave it to the upturn, you’ll be behind the curve. What is the Employee Value Proposition? “A set of associations and offerings provided by an organisation in return for the skills, capabilities and experiences that an employee brings to the

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Communication for Connection

Communication for Connection

How you say what you say determines whether your messaging inspires connection or leaves your audience cold. Communication across a distanced audience, whether spoken or written, is the most important tool in your skillset. To leave it under developed risks exposure to poor messaging that fails to embody the values and culture your leaders wish

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Managing change

Managing Change – There’s No Going Back

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still more change for organisations to manage while we move towards it. Are there any organisations out there who haven’t experienced a huge shake up in the last twelve months? Some have coped well, perhaps because they learned how to adapt in the wake of

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structured leadership development

The Need for Structured Leadership Development

There’s just one thing more important than leadership development, and that’s structured leadership development. It’s easy to say we must develop our leaders. Buy in a bit of coaching here, a psychometric tool there, pop the leadership candidates on a management skills course and believe that hey presto! You have a leader. The truth is,

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