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To create sustainable working environments, where employees and managers are able to recuperate and recharge, it’s important to not only regularly take available vacation time, but also to fully understand its benefits and encourage your team members to plan time off. This article details how taking time off benefits the mind, body, and soul….

In this micro-insight from our book, Simplifying Inclusive Leadership, we explore how psychological safety is the unsung foundation of inclusion. It’s what allows people to share ideas, take risks, admit mistakes, and challenge the status quo—without fear of judgement, embarrassment, or penalty. Yet in many workplaces, silence speaks louder than words….

In this micro-insight from our book, Simplifying Inclusive Leadership, we explore why inclusive leadership is so urgent right now, exploring both the moral and business case for inclusion….

In this micro-insight from our book, Simplifying Inclusive Leadership, we explore what is inclusive leadership. We’ve all heard the buzzwords: authenticity, belonging, psychological safety. But beneath the headlines, how do we actually define inclusive leadership in a way that’s both evidence-based and practically useful?…

The article emphasises that leaders stumble, not because they have undesirable thoughts and feelings, that’s inevitable, but because they get hooked by them, like fish caught on a line. In doing so, they pay too much attention to their internal chatter and allow it to use up important cognitive resources that could be put to better use….

Sponsorship is spending one’s social capital or using one’s influence to advocate for a protégé. However, many leaders believe that they’re sponsoring someone when, in fact, they’re providing mentorship. This Harvard Business Review article by Rosalind Chow, describes how, in a nutshell, sponsorship is all about influence….

By now, many organizational leaders which are based in the US or have US based operations, are aware of the need to conduct a legal review of their DEI programs. But having lawful policies in place is one part of the equation. The way you communicate about those policies matters just as much. This article provides some best practice recommendations….

Do you know that there has been a sharp increase in compensation in age discrimination cases in the UK, increasing by 624 per cent between 2021-22 to 2023-24? This article provides practical recommendations to create an age inclusive culture….

This classic paper from Harvard Business School discusses what the authors describe as the ‘great training robbery’. Although participants may describe learning as ‘powerful’ and even when measures of attitudes and behaviours before and immediately after the training indicate a change, this often does not translate into changes in the organization’s effectiveness, its culture or its performance. Specifically, if aspects of the organization’s culture are opposed to what is being advocated by the training program, learning from the training is highly unlikely to stick in day-to-day working life….

Employees often receive conflicting advice about sharing personal information in the workplace. They are told to “bring your whole self to work” but also to keep it professional and not share too much personal information with colleagues. This research explores the impact of self-disclosure at work….