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No. We are NOT one big happy family
Leadership teams often agonise over the exact wording for how to describe their workplace culture. And in the end they regularly come up with something like this: If you join us you become ‘part of the family’.
But work is NOT like being part of a family. And neither should it be.
- March 2023
Who are you???
How to grasp your personal story and tell it with intention and impact
- Feb 2023
How to uncover, structure & tell your personal story
Before we can begin telling our personal story to others, you must first understand it yourself. But let’s be honest, how many of us find the time to reflect on how we ended up where we are today? To help you get started, here is a simple tool.
- Feb 2023
The five elements you need to tell your personal story
All stories follow a simple structure; there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. Within that are a few common characteristics. Keeping those front of mind makes for better personal storytelling.
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Why understanding, developing and nurturing a strong personal brand is worth it, and three practical steps to get started
Five tips to build your personal brand in a hybrid working world
To kick start ’23, we offer these practical tips for building and amplifying your personal brand in a hybrid working world.
Inclusion’s forgotten relation: Disability
To mark the 30th anniversary of the ‘UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities’ we want to share our recent conversation with Jen Rooney. Jen told us about her experience with disability and how she’s using it to help organisations create more enabling working environments for those with disabilities.
The Value of Values
Values are our deeply held beliefs. When all is said and done, they are what matter most to us.
While many of us have some idea of our values, few of us have full clarity. Which is a shame, given that our values determine so much of how we think, feel and act.
Here’s how you can get clarity around your values.
How to become truly inclusive
Grasping the concept of inclusion isn’t hard, what’s elusive is understanding what’s involved in becoming more inclusive and supporting others to contribute to an inclusive culture.
We have developed a model for developing inclusivity that is grounded in Liebfrog’s many conversations and years of work with professionals wanting to develop the courage and skills they need to lead with clarity and decency - of which inclusivity is an integral part.
'Return to the office or resign!'
Why full time return to office mandates are at odds with inclusivity and productivity
Attention!
The one thing you can do to reduce stress, improve your relationships and productivity:
… Pay full attention to who or what is in front of you right now.
Purposeful action or impulsive reaction?
In today’s pluralistic working environments, emotionally intelligent leaders have never been more needed to pave the way for people to work together with mutual respect and towards a shared goal. Here’s how to cultivate emotional intelligence.
Why we love a difficult conversation
Difficult conversations that surface a problem are rarely the cause of it. So surely it's best to embrace, rather than avoid them. Here's how.
4 reframes to curb attrition and go from crisis to control
Four leadership lenses that will help us better see and navigate the 'great resignation' so that instead of the ‘big quit’ 2022 becomes a ‘big hit’.