Do you encourage a competitive or cooperative atmosphere in your workplace? How you answer that question may indicate that you are not getting the best out of your employees. In general, even if there is a cooperative element in your work, western culture tends to...
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Nudges for meaningful change
Work-based safety is one of the main strands of focus in the team of which I am part at the Wales Centre for Behaviour Change (WCBC). This area perhaps lends itself most obviously to collaboration between research psychology and industry. Although studied...
Coaching, could it be saving lives as well as costs?
Coaching can have profound health benefits. With absenteeism costing the UK £12 billion every year this is interesting. When great human resources are missing from your work environment there is noticeable gap. The deficit either has to be picked up by others, often...
Understanding learning: Schemas
When we are Coaching people there are times when we want to introduce a new concept to out clients. Introducing new things to people means that their brains have to find a way to understand what is being explained to them. We are going to look here at the science of...
Coaching on decisions; is emotion important?
You will have heard the sayings before: “High emotion, low intelligence” “Control your emotion, or it will control you” “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason” If we are interested in best helping...
Mental Maps in Coaching
How do we learn new things? How do we remember old things? How do we easily achieve our goals? The answer to all these questions lies partly in mental maps. As you know, we have lots and lots of neurons in our brains. These neurons communicate with one another using...
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