Building a life-giving, dignified existence.
C21st Orgs are like networked communities with a higher sense of dependency upon - and conscious responsibility for - wider humanity and the planet in general. When we choose this perspective we accep...
What do we mean by “culturally safe workspaces”? We are not focusing here on physical safety. The need to manage that risk is well established and well documented. What we are concerned with, is cultu...
Unfortunately, most efforts to address emotional and mental health in the workplace are focused on symptoms of stress. But this is akin to passing cold towels to someone overheating on the treadmill w...
The nature of a working environment significantly impacts upon a workers’ ability to excel at and/or enjoy their work. We should be creating working spaces that are not designed to control or manipula...
Alongside the processes used to address conflict when it arises (see: “What is a healthy way to approach conflict resolution?”) we can put in place certain structures to create and maintain a supporti...
We need to establish ground rules when creating safe workspaces because, without ground rules, managers and employees can have difficulty understanding boundaries and how to put values into action in ...
While ground rules should be used in training and onboarding employees, they also need to be reaffirmed periodically to ensure they are fully normalised and adopted into the culture of the organizatio...