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News, views and reflections on our work – applying psychology to help people and organisations embrace change and perform.
Motivation, Emotion and Leadership – Apter Emotivation
The fundamental aim of leadership development with the Apter Toolkit is to enable managers and leaders to adapt their leadership style to meet the needs of their team in a given context. Both of these variables are dynamic and increasing in change and unpredictability, making leadership a complex business. There’s no blueprint for leadership...
Coaching with Motivation and Emotion – Apter Emotivation
Coaching with Motivation and Emotion Performing at work means dealing with a greater variety of more complex and dynamic challenges on a day-to-day basis. It is, therefore, unsurprising that stress is becoming a more common experience at work. What is the Apter approach to Coaching? The Apter approach is ultimately about helping people to become...
Employee Voice: Why Listening Matters
Employee Voice is a term that I've been hearing more of recently, and when I was asked to speak at an event on the subject by the Employee Engagement Alliance, it was with the brief of talking about the science of listening. It's obvious that it’s important to listen to people at work, right? Two-way communication, better decisions, happier...
What is a Change Agent and how do I become one?
Ok, so what is a change agent and how do I become one? These two questions came up in a recent conversation I had with a friend who was looking for a new opportunity. My answers based on my own perspective and experience, follow. They may not be textbook-correct, and I’d welcome discussion and debate. What is a Change Agent? Change Agents...
Navigating the Emotional Waters of Change
The Relationship between Emotions and Change Management It's clear that emotions and change management are inextricably linked. How we feel about the change drives our behaviour, which is why you'll often hear people talking about winning "hearts and minds". Yet, the relationship between emotions and change is not typically well understood in...
Developing the Whole Person (The Problem with Personality Types)
If you’ve been in the corporate world for any time at all, it’s likely that you’ll have been on a development programme or training course that included some kind of personality profile. We’re talking MBTI, DISC, Insights, FIRO and a whole host of tools that measure some aspect of personality, behavioural preference or, related concepts...
Where are the emotions in Employee Experience?
I’m a big believer in the idea of providing a great employee experience, but am concerned that it’s becoming another Employee Engagement. An industry, a tick box exercise. An opportunity to sell software.
New coaching toolkit partnership with Apter Solutions
It has been an exciting week this week, with Rob heading to Paris to spend some time with the Apter Solutions team and discuss a partnership that will bring the Apter coaching toolkit to the UK in 2019.The Apter Toolkit, based on Reversal Theory, includes a 'card game' that helps identify and mange emotions and sources of stress, as well as the...
Reversal Theory: The ‘Psychological Secret’ behind England’s World Cup Success?
In the euphoria that accompanied England’s journey to the FIFA World Cup semi-final this summer many reputations were enhanced and none more than Gareth Southgate’s. Rightly so, but another name started cropping up in the media: Pippa Grange. If you haven’t read the reports, Pippa Grange is the psychologist that has been supporting Gareth and...
Developing a strategic change capability
The increasing pace, complexity and unpredictability of change means that being able implement change consistently will determine your future competitiveness. A strategic change capability is the extent to which an organisation is equipped to deliver change and its associated benefits again and again. In this article we outline the case for...
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