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Governing AI in the boardroom.

How You Can Lead Successful AI Transformations

Directors are facing a new wave of complex challenges as artificial intelligence reshapes business, governance and the future of work.
People around AI showing culture

Why Workplace Culture Is More Important Than AI

Culture is defined as they 'way we do things around here' and is unique to any organisation.
Brain Health at Work

How To Manage A Healthy Brain At Work

Often the clients we work with focus on processes, policies, handbooks, and ways of working as if they are leading machines rather than people. Yet, the human brain is very different to machines, or is it?
Cyber Security padlock on purple and red background

Why We Need to Celebrate Cyber Secure Culture

A cyber secure culture - aligning actions with values is critical, especially when it comes to cyber security.
Leadership Development in an Artificially Intelligent World

Leadership in an Artificially Intelligent World.

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and to problem solve.
Artificial Intelligence

Human Behaviour and Artificial Intelligence: Why Their Connection Really Matters

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. First invented in 1950s, it is only recently that Artificial intelligence has become so prolific across society as a whole. Ten years ago AI was still a dream for the majority of us.
Away Days Planning

The Hidden Benefits of Leadership Away Days

The benefits of hosting an Away Day for your team are many, and many you might not have considered.
Away Day Strategic Planning

Unlocking ROI: How Strategic Away Days Can Drive Business Growth

We often get asked about value and return on investment (ROI) for our programmes, Away Days included. Balancing risk with benefit and value are vital.
Away Days

Breakthrough Leadership Alignment Through Purposeful Away Days

Away days offer a neutral, distraction-free environment that is highly beneficial for team dynamics, creativity, and strategic alignment.
Work spelt out on a desk using tiles with usual work related paraphernalia such as pencils, notepads in shot

How To Ensure The Right Work Is Done To An Exceptional Standard

How do we ensure the right work is being done? Or are our teams busy without achieving the purpose required? Teams are regrouping after the summer period, with some colleagues returning from holidays, others yet to escape and those who have worked throughout.
Emotional Intelligence Organisational Design

Evaluating Emotional Intelligence In Your Boardroom

Boardroom evaluations are a vital part of good governance and are a legal requirement for many organisations (e.g. UK listed businesses). Yet how many evaluations measure the emotional intelligence around the boardtable?
Motivation and Culture

How Can Leaders Improve Motivation In Their Workplace Culture?

The carrot versus the stick is a powerful analogy of the type of tools which many leaders still use when attempting to improve motivation.
Threads of Trust

How To Create Trust: The Invisible Thread of Successful Cultures

There is one thing that has remained constant over the 25+ years Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, our Co-Founders, having worked across 35+ industries: culture is the bedrock of success. Culture is built on trust.
Image showing wooden letters scattered across purple background with word motivation spelt underneath.

Motivation: Understanding What Drives People at Work

The reason a person acts or decides to behave in a certain way is usually down to motivation. Motivation itself is not visible. It is an internal process. Motivation is the driving force behind human actions that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviours......
Away Days Planning

The Hidden Benefits of Leadership Away Days

The benefits of hosting an Away Day for your team are many, and many you might not have considered.
Away Day Strategic Planning

Unlocking ROI: How Strategic Away Days Can Drive Business Growth

We often get asked about value and return on investment (ROI) for our programmes, Away Days included. Balancing risk with benefit and value are vital.
Away Days

Breakthrough Leadership Alignment Through Purposeful Away Days

Away days offer a neutral, distraction-free environment that is highly beneficial for team dynamics, creativity, and strategic alignment.
Image showing paracord intertwined to make stronger cord through change

Can a Great Workshop Change Behaviour at Work?

In most organisations, change begins with a meeting, not a workshop. However, a workshop is a vital meeting.
Creative Thinking

Think Better, Not Faster: The Science of Pausing for Innovation and Growth

Innovation happens when we deliver something new and useful to our customers, organisation or even society as a whole. But with innovation constantly declining, how can pausing help us innovate faster?
Human with a yellow jacket on and word toxic with the skull and cross bones symbol emblazoned on the back

Toxic Culture : Behaviour Is At The Heart of Scandal & Failure

The news is full of stories about toxic culture. Toxic cultures have contributed to financial collapses, personal scandals and reputational downfalls. From politics to business to public institutions, the number of examples seems to be growing exponentially.
Tuckman Forming Performing Team Stages

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

With countless books, articles, podcasts, and videos on "how to be a great leader," it can be hard to know where to begin.
5 why's model

Is There One SUPER Leadership Model?

Is there a model to help leaders and businesses ensure employees enjoy their jobs?
Governing AI in the boardroom.

How You Can Lead Successful AI Transformations

Directors are facing a new wave of complex challenges as artificial intelligence reshapes business, governance and the future of work.
HR budget going further

How To Maximise Your HR Budget & Deliver Goals

Every organisational budget will be feeling the challenge of having to make less into more as taxes and tariffs change. So what should leaders be doing?
Is anything really changing for women?

IWD: How To Create A Fair & Inclusive Workplace

At Think Organisation, we help leaders create inclusive workplaces for everyone, recognising that many groups (including women) continue to face marginalisation.
Speak up comments from people

Practical Tips To Create A Speak Up Culture

Have you ever sat in a meeting feeling nervous about speaking? Maybe you are unsure about the comment or suggestion you want to make, or maybe you are concerned about how to start what you want to say in the melee of others voicing their ideas.
Diversity with a red cross over the diversity.

Leaders Need to Focus on Belonging Not DEI

Imagine a time in the future when everyone is included and has a real sense of belonging, no matter their race, colour, background, gender, socio-economic status, neuro-needs, or lifestyle preferences.
Reflection and resilience image, understanding another point of view

Reflection: Psychology of Learning Proven To Improve Training ROI

Reflection involves absorbing information, asking deep and probing questions, and challenging your understanding of situations or events.
Cyber Security padlock on purple and red background

Why We Need to Celebrate Cyber Secure Culture

A cyber secure culture - aligning actions with values is critical, especially when it comes to cyber security.
Job Design

The Importance of Job Design for Leaders: Practical Tips for Success

Effective job design is a critical element for any leader aiming to enhance organisational performance and employee engagement.
Leadership is authentic energy which helps others

Why All Leaders Need To Be Authentic

Having a boss, or superior who is authentic is something that people may take for granted. But is authenticity important and does it matter?
Culture is vital for project management success

How To Create Sustainable Success: Project Managing Culture

Culture plays a pivotal role in project management, influencing how teams collaborate, communicate, and deliver on objectives.
Blue sign saying work harder not smarter on the background of commercial buildings including scaffolding

Culture Alignment is Key to Make Work Really Work

This article explores how outdated leadership styles, poor communication, a lack of employee investment, and low productivity contribute to work not functioning well for individuals, teams, and organisations.
KPI culture CEOs financial performance importance increase profit

Why The Most Successful CEOs Focus on Culture

A company's culture unconsciously influences the decisions employees make. Those decisions that employees make impact the results and success of a business, both directly and indirectly. The culture then impacts how people respond in the moment, especially when decisions are complex and there is no set process......
culture consultant

How To Select The Right Culture Consultant For Your Business.

Many organisations hire, or borrow talent when required, especially during periods of transition or transformation. Often talent required on a more permanent basis may not suit times of change.......
Artificial Intelligence

Human Behaviour and Artificial Intelligence: Why Their Connection Really Matters

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. First invented in 1950s, it is only recently that Artificial intelligence has become so prolific across society as a whole. Ten years ago AI was still a dream for the majority of us.
mental health

Is Poor Leadership Fuelling the Mental Health Crisis?

Leaders impact the mental health of their team, significantly more more than Doctors and Therapists. In fact, according to 69% of people surveyed across leaders have the biggest impact on their mental health.
experience

Is your People Experience Missing Baked Beans or Peas?

What signs are there that you have a positive culture? What does your company do to support employees?
Culture of Innovation

How to create a culture of innovation? 

How do you create a culture of innovation?  Innovation in business is the ability to conceive, develop, deliver, and scale new products, services, processes and business models for customers. ......
De Bono Thinking Hats Red White Blue Green Yellow

Put Your Thinking Hats On: Use De Bono’s Model To Unlock Better Ideas & Results

How we make decisions, come up with ideas, solve problems or approach challenges is all down to how we think. Imagine if you could change how you think based on the thinking hats you decide to put on your head.
Executive coaching

How To Ensure You Have a Credible Coach

In an era where leadership is defined by agility, resilience, and strategic foresight, executive coaching has become an essential lever for transformation.
Comfort zone, fight, flight, freeze and fawn

Comfort Zone: How Organisations Can Foster Growth

Stepping out of your comfort zone can feel like a mixture of excitement and fear. For some adventurous people it can become addictive!
Growth mindset

How A Growth Mindset Fosters Employee Achievement

Employee engagement and motivation are declining in many organisations, leading to lower productivity, higher staff turnover, and diminished morale across businesses and the UK.
Performance Curve

How To Manage High Performance at Work

Have you ever asked the question in your workplace - what do we mean by high performance? High performance is defined as 'able to operate to a high standard or at a high speed' (Cambridge, 2025) but what does this look like in the workplace?
Behaviour at work

Three Ways Employee Behaviour Can Impact Your Profit

How we behave at work is down to the individual. Behaviour at work is down to the team, manager, organisation and society. Humans learn behaviours from their lived experience and other people. In reality, no amount of rules, procedures, operating models or surveillance can outweigh having staff who enjoy what they are doing, enjoy where they work, and enjoy who they are working with.
Negativity in the workplace

How To Break The Moaning Cycle For A Productive Workplace

This week has brought with it an abundance of moaning, both at home and in the office. Humans need time to adapt, and while change is inevitable in life, it is essential for businesses to survive.
Understanding Others, Personality, Success

Understanding Others: How To Drive Business Success

In today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, the ability to understand another persons point of view has never been more important.
Happiness at work

What is Happiness? Can Anyone Really Be Happy At Work?

Remember the last time you felt truly happy, have you ever felt truly happy? When you think about it, defining happiness or when, where, if you were happy can be difficult.
KPI culture CEOs financial performance importance increase profit

Why The Most Successful CEOs Focus on Culture

A company's culture unconsciously influences the decisions employees make. Those decisions that employees make impact the results and success of a business, both directly and indirectly. The culture then impacts how people respond in the moment, especially when decisions are complex and there is no set process......
Psychometrics

Why Using Psychometrics Is Proven to Add Value to Your Business

Psycometrics provide a language which empowers teams to have conversations about behaviours. Giving people insight into the ways people work, and importantly how people can work together.
Culture

What Every Leader Needs to Know About Culture Consultants

Organisational culture is the way things are done in an organisation. Organisational Psychologists are taught how to assess and shape organisational cultures. There is extensive scientific research outlining ways to define, measure or manage culture......
Overcoming adversity

Adversity – Why Individuals, Teams and Organisations Need Coaching

Overcoming adversity and being resilient are all words which are frequently used in our workplaces today. Many leaders contact Think Organisation asking for training or coaching to help themselves, or their teams.
Think Organisation Stress Model

How to Successfully Navigate Stress in Your Life

Stress is an external pressure that can positively or negatively impact individuals, teams, organisations or societies......
Engagement at Work

How do you unlock employee engagement in the workplace?

We all spend a third of our lifetime asleep and a third of our lifetime at work (OWID, 2024), so it would be perfect if we could all enjoy our time at work.
Team Performance

Are Poor Team Dynamics Causing You Leadership Frustration?

Many clients come to us frustrated about the performance of others. Wasted time, effort or poor quality results from individuals often lead to a whole team not adding the expected value.
Motivation is made up of power, affiliation and achievement

Create Team Motivation When You Have No Payroll Budget

When resources are tight, motivation can feel like an impossible…
Human with a yellow jacket on and word toxic with the skull and cross bones symbol emblazoned on the back

Toxic Culture : Behaviour Is At The Heart of Scandal & Failure

The news is full of stories about toxic culture. Toxic cultures have contributed to financial collapses, personal scandals and reputational downfalls. From politics to business to public institutions, the number of examples seems to be growing exponentially.
Tuckman Forming Performing Team Stages

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

With countless books, articles, podcasts, and videos on "how to be a great leader," it can be hard to know where to begin.
Think Social Identity theory image of collective group of people

Can Understanding Social Identity Unlock Productivity In Your Team?

Leaders of teams cannot afford to overlook the science of human behaviour which can provide evidence-based solutions to common people challenges.
Old fashioned image of an office and brief case

When Experience Becomes Resistance – How To Un-Stick Stubborn Leaders

A CEO we were working with found themselves increasingly frustrated…
A person sitting in front of a compute with a cardboard box on their head with a sad stressed face drawn on it.

The Hidden Cost of Stress

Workplace health and wellbeing has become a familiar agenda…
Image of wooden leaders creating culture shadows

What Happens When Leaders Get It Wrong?

What is a great leader and what happens when they get it wrong?…
Manage Juggling

How To Overcome The Five Challenges Of Being A Manager

In the boardroom, conversations about the difference between a leader and a manager can often blur into semantics. The reality is that whether you wear the title of manager or leader, the role is challenging.
Work spelt out on a desk using tiles with usual work related paraphernalia such as pencils, notepads in shot

How To Ensure The Right Work Is Done To An Exceptional Standard

How do we ensure the right work is being done? Or are our teams busy without achieving the purpose required? Teams are regrouping after the summer period, with some colleagues returning from holidays, others yet to escape and those who have worked throughout.
Business Psychology Models

Discover the Secrets of Business Psychology Models

A business can tap into a vast array of models depending on whether its focus is strategy, operations, people, innovation, change or culture. Some of these were highlighted in last week’s insights.
5 why's model

Is There One SUPER Leadership Model?

Is there a model to help leaders and businesses ensure employees enjoy their jobs?
Governing AI in the boardroom.

How You Can Lead Successful AI Transformations

Directors are facing a new wave of complex challenges as artificial intelligence reshapes business, governance and the future of work.
2 x 2 Model People Productivity

Can A Simple 2×2 Management Model Really Help Leaders?

During the 1960s, a wave of interest in understanding motivation…
Being human

How To Help People Be Humans At Work To Drive Profits

Have you ever considered how the world is becoming more artificial? How people at work are becoming less human? More like automated machines.
Fair, unfair, culture

How To Make Your Work Culture Fair

Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly. Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly.
Motivation and Culture

How Can Leaders Improve Motivation In Their Workplace Culture?

The carrot versus the stick is a powerful analogy of the type of tools which many leaders still use when attempting to improve motivation.
Threads of Trust

How To Create Trust: The Invisible Thread of Successful Cultures

There is one thing that has remained constant over the 25+ years Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, our Co-Founders, having worked across 35+ industries: culture is the bedrock of success. Culture is built on trust.
People around AI showing culture

Why Workplace Culture Is More Important Than AI

Culture is defined as they 'way we do things around here' and is unique to any organisation.
Lots of wooden people having conversations.

The Hidden Cost of Silence: Leading Through Conversations

Leadership isn’t always about vision boards, strategy decks, and celebrating success. It is about conversations.
Facilitator Facilitation Quote

How a Professional Facilitator Can Save your Business Money

Board meetings are pivotal moments for strategic decision-making, governance, and organisational oversight. Yet how many businesses invest in a professional facilitator to ensure ROI is delivered?
boardroom power dynamics

Power Psychology: How To Unlock The Secret of Boardroom Dynamics

Boardroom dynamics are complex, and crucial for the success of any organisation. Yet many people struggle to understand the realities of boardroom dynamics.
Speak up comments from people

Practical Tips To Create A Speak Up Culture

Have you ever sat in a meeting feeling nervous about speaking? Maybe you are unsure about the comment or suggestion you want to make, or maybe you are concerned about how to start what you want to say in the melee of others voicing their ideas.
Image showing seats with the words is that fair or unfair?

How To Create & Embed A Culture of Fairness

All organisations need to ensure consistency, transparency and fairness in all that they do. This is a fundamental principle which underpins years of research and practical application.
Cost Culture

How To Protect Culture during Cost Reduction

While cutting costs may be a necessary strategy for financial stability, how a company navigates this process speaks volumes about its organisational culture.
Behaviour at work

Three Ways Employee Behaviour Can Impact Your Profit

How we behave at work is down to the individual. Behaviour at work is down to the team, manager, organisation and society. Humans learn behaviours from their lived experience and other people. In reality, no amount of rules, procedures, operating models or surveillance can outweigh having staff who enjoy what they are doing, enjoy where they work, and enjoy who they are working with.
Different types of thinking listed

Think About Thinking: A Productive New Year Resolution for Leaders

As humans, we think. It’s one of the defining traits of our species. Often, we even think about thinking. What happens when you try not to think? Or someone tells you to 'clear your mind'?
Conscious Competence Stages Learning Culture

How To Use The Four Stages of Conscious Competence To Improve Your Culture

The Conscious Competence model, also called the Four Stages of Competence, is a simple yet powerful way to understand how we acquire new skills and navigate any learning curve.
Job Design

The Importance of Job Design for Leaders: Practical Tips for Success

Effective job design is a critical element for any leader aiming to enhance organisational performance and employee engagement.
Leadership is authentic energy which helps others

Why All Leaders Need To Be Authentic

Having a boss, or superior who is authentic is something that people may take for granted. But is authenticity important and does it matter?
Bureaucracy pile of post it notes including strategy missing control all in different colours

Does Reducing Bureaucracy Make Your Business More Profitable?

When a client tells us they are frustrated because nothing gets done in their business because there is too much red tape we feel their pain.
Culture is vital for project management success

How To Create Sustainable Success: Project Managing Culture

Culture plays a pivotal role in project management, influencing how teams collaborate, communicate, and deliver on objectives.
Inspiration, leaders, leadership, psychology

Leadership Fundamentals: Psychology, People, Purpose, Plans

Leadership is often defined as the ability to inspire, guide, and support a group of people toward achieving a shared vision.
Understanding Others, Personality, Success

Understanding Others: How To Drive Business Success

In today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, the ability to understand another persons point of view has never been more important.
Happiness at work

What is Happiness? Can Anyone Really Be Happy At Work?

Remember the last time you felt truly happy, have you ever felt truly happy? When you think about it, defining happiness or when, where, if you were happy can be difficult.
Blue sign saying work harder not smarter on the background of commercial buildings including scaffolding

Culture Alignment is Key to Make Work Really Work

This article explores how outdated leadership styles, poor communication, a lack of employee investment, and low productivity contribute to work not functioning well for individuals, teams, and organisations.
Workplace stress

Workplace Stress: Understanding the Hidden Dangers

Today, stress appears to be the biggest killer of people in workplaces. Yet how can we protect ourselves?
Rachel Vigers, Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, Think Organisation and Rock Partners

Think Rock: Aligning Culture with Strategy

Collaboration is how Think Organisation works, in fact, it is…
Frustration at work - is the grass greener

Struggling at work? Here’s How To Understand Your Frustration

Are you feeling frustration at not being able to achieve what you want in your job? Do you get annoyed with the other people?
Image of a rainbow cake with the words what type of cake is your orgnisational culture?

A Slice Of Culture: Why Cake Is So Important

As a Culture Consultant, defining our role can often be challenging. For some clients, we delve into the intricate details of the evidence-based practices that underpin our work, ensuring behavioural changes across organisations.......
Toxic Culture

Five Steps to Fix A Toxic Culture

A negative workplace culture is an environment dominated by practices, policies and management styles that perpetuate unhealthy habits and conflicts.
Brain, psychology, working, business

99 Ways a Business Psychologist Can Improve Your Workplace

There are many titles for a Business Psychologist which describe the expertise and application of psychological principles.
KPI culture CEOs financial performance importance increase profit

Why The Most Successful CEOs Focus on Culture

A company's culture unconsciously influences the decisions employees make. Those decisions that employees make impact the results and success of a business, both directly and indirectly. The culture then impacts how people respond in the moment, especially when decisions are complex and there is no set process......
Psychometrics

Why Using Psychometrics Is Proven to Add Value to Your Business

Psycometrics provide a language which empowers teams to have conversations about behaviours. Giving people insight into the ways people work, and importantly how people can work together.
Image of old battered football on a muddy rubbish strewn floor with the words what can we learn above.

Losing Teaches Us How To Be Stronger Leaders

A game of football has a clear objective, to win by getting the ball in the net more than your opponents. Yet losing seems to spin millions of people into a negative spiral......
culture consultant

How To Select The Right Culture Consultant For Your Business.

Many organisations hire, or borrow talent when required, especially during periods of transition or transformation. Often talent required on a more permanent basis may not suit times of change.......
Business Culture

Leadership Insights 2024: Building a Strong Business Culture

Business culture impacts employee experience - it is the shared attitudes, beliefs, priorities and values which guide the behaviours of all employees......
Football & football boots representing different cultures.

Why Football Is A Great Metaphor of Organisational Culture.

Here at Think Organisation we can't help but notice the connections between football teams and organisational cultures. So how can we use football to demonstrate the importance of culture across organisations?......
Motivation

Staying Ahead of the Game: Top Trends in Work Motivation

In June 2024, two colleagues from the Think Organisation were invited to attend the BPS Occupational Psychology Annual Conference to present their research output from a Decade of Data.
Image showing wooden letters scattered across purple background with word motivation spelt underneath.

Motivation: Understanding What Drives People at Work

The reason a person acts or decides to behave in a certain way is usually down to motivation. Motivation itself is not visible. It is an internal process. Motivation is the driving force behind human actions that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviours......
Red plastic toy figure standing away from a group of multicolour toy plastic figures all gathered under a glass jar.

Inclusion: Why Organisations Need to Stop Making Inclusion Exclusive

Inclusion is when someone, or something, feels or is part of a group. Inclusion can be a state, or an action. Behaviour can promote inclusion, or promote exclusion.
Mental Health

Critical insight for people who don’t have mental health issues.

Mental Health Awareness week is approaching, and undoubtedly, numerous companies will soon be sharing positive messages about mental health and well-being. Many will follow the same well-trodden commercial marketing plans. Raising awareness is crucial, but it must lead to tangible behaviour change to truly make a difference......
Culture

What Every Leader Needs to Know About Culture Consultants

Organisational culture is the way things are done in an organisation. Organisational Psychologists are taught how to assess and shape organisational cultures. There is extensive scientific research outlining ways to define, measure or manage culture......
diversity and inclusion

Why do we need Pac-Man for diversity and inclusion?

Have you ever thought about your childhood experience, and how this experience impacts your thoughts and perceptions of diversity and inclusion today?....
experience

Is your People Experience Missing Baked Beans or Peas?

What signs are there that you have a positive culture? What does your company do to support employees?
success

Is Your Culture Delivering Successful Results?

A successful organisation is one which accomplishes its aim or purpose. To do this, people need to be willing, able and aligned. A culture, with highly engaged employees, has been repeatedly proven to deliver significantly higher results.....
Culture Transformation

Transform Culture To Unleash Peak Performance

In the fast-paced world of business, where every decision impacts the bottom line, organisational culture emerges as a pivotal force, it can either propel a company to new heights or impede its progress.
Toxic Work Culture

Is your toxic culture affecting your well-being?

We have all been there when we start a new job. The organisation described the culture as 'welcoming, ethical and focused on equality for all' to recruits.
Creative Thinking

Think Better, Not Faster: The Science of Pausing for Innovation and Growth

Innovation happens when we deliver something new and useful to our customers, organisation or even society as a whole. But with innovation constantly declining, how can pausing help us innovate faster?
De Bono Thinking Hats Red White Blue Green Yellow

Put Your Thinking Hats On: Use De Bono’s Model To Unlock Better Ideas & Results

How we make decisions, come up with ideas, solve problems or approach challenges is all down to how we think. Imagine if you could change how you think based on the thinking hats you decide to put on your head.
People around AI showing culture

Why Workplace Culture Is More Important Than AI

Culture is defined as they 'way we do things around here' and is unique to any organisation.
HR budget going further

How To Maximise Your HR Budget & Deliver Goals

Every organisational budget will be feeling the challenge of having to make less into more as taxes and tariffs change. So what should leaders be doing?
Cyber Security padlock on purple and red background

Why We Need to Celebrate Cyber Secure Culture

A cyber secure culture - aligning actions with values is critical, especially when it comes to cyber security.
Culture is vital for project management success

How To Create Sustainable Success: Project Managing Culture

Culture plays a pivotal role in project management, influencing how teams collaborate, communicate, and deliver on objectives.
Motivation

Staying Ahead of the Game: Top Trends in Work Motivation

In June 2024, two colleagues from the Think Organisation were invited to attend the BPS Occupational Psychology Annual Conference to present their research output from a Decade of Data.
Overcoming adversity

Adversity – Why Individuals, Teams and Organisations Need Coaching

Overcoming adversity and being resilient are all words which are frequently used in our workplaces today. Many leaders contact Think Organisation asking for training or coaching to help themselves, or their teams.
Culture of Innovation

How to create a culture of innovation? 

How do you create a culture of innovation?  Innovation in business is the ability to conceive, develop, deliver, and scale new products, services, processes and business models for customers. ......
Away Days Planning

The Hidden Benefits of Leadership Away Days

The benefits of hosting an Away Day for your team are many, and many you might not have considered.
Away Day Strategic Planning

Unlocking ROI: How Strategic Away Days Can Drive Business Growth

We often get asked about value and return on investment (ROI) for our programmes, Away Days included. Balancing risk with benefit and value are vital.
Away Days

Breakthrough Leadership Alignment Through Purposeful Away Days

Away days offer a neutral, distraction-free environment that is highly beneficial for team dynamics, creativity, and strategic alignment.
Motivation is made up of power, affiliation and achievement

Create Team Motivation When You Have No Payroll Budget

When resources are tight, motivation can feel like an impossible…
Human with a yellow jacket on and word toxic with the skull and cross bones symbol emblazoned on the back

Toxic Culture : Behaviour Is At The Heart of Scandal & Failure

The news is full of stories about toxic culture. Toxic cultures have contributed to financial collapses, personal scandals and reputational downfalls. From politics to business to public institutions, the number of examples seems to be growing exponentially.
Tuckman Forming Performing Team Stages

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

With countless books, articles, podcasts, and videos on "how to be a great leader," it can be hard to know where to begin.
Think Social Identity theory image of collective group of people

Can Understanding Social Identity Unlock Productivity In Your Team?

Leaders of teams cannot afford to overlook the science of human behaviour which can provide evidence-based solutions to common people challenges.
Work spelt out on a desk using tiles with usual work related paraphernalia such as pencils, notepads in shot

How To Ensure The Right Work Is Done To An Exceptional Standard

How do we ensure the right work is being done? Or are our teams busy without achieving the purpose required? Teams are regrouping after the summer period, with some colleagues returning from holidays, others yet to escape and those who have worked throughout.
Business Psychology Models

Discover the Secrets of Business Psychology Models

A business can tap into a vast array of models depending on whether its focus is strategy, operations, people, innovation, change or culture. Some of these were highlighted in last week’s insights.
5 why's model

Is There One SUPER Leadership Model?

Is there a model to help leaders and businesses ensure employees enjoy their jobs?
Emotional Intelligence Organisational Design

Evaluating Emotional Intelligence In Your Boardroom

Boardroom evaluations are a vital part of good governance and are a legal requirement for many organisations (e.g. UK listed businesses). Yet how many evaluations measure the emotional intelligence around the boardtable?
Fair, unfair, culture

How To Make Your Work Culture Fair

Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly. Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly.
Employee Engagement

How To Improve Employee Engagement on a Limited Budget

Employee engagement has fallen into and out of favour over the years. At times it is seen as an illusive concept which is difficult to quantify, measure or obtain....
Motivation and Culture

How Can Leaders Improve Motivation In Their Workplace Culture?

The carrot versus the stick is a powerful analogy of the type of tools which many leaders still use when attempting to improve motivation.
Executive coaching

How To Ensure You Have a Credible Coach

In an era where leadership is defined by agility, resilience, and strategic foresight, executive coaching has become an essential lever for transformation.
Threads of Trust

How To Create Trust: The Invisible Thread of Successful Cultures

There is one thing that has remained constant over the 25+ years Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, our Co-Founders, having worked across 35+ industries: culture is the bedrock of success. Culture is built on trust.
Lots of wooden people having conversations.

The Hidden Cost of Silence: Leading Through Conversations

Leadership isn’t always about vision boards, strategy decks, and celebrating success. It is about conversations.
Facilitator Facilitation Quote

How a Professional Facilitator Can Save your Business Money

Board meetings are pivotal moments for strategic decision-making, governance, and organisational oversight. Yet how many businesses invest in a professional facilitator to ensure ROI is delivered?
boardroom power dynamics

Power Psychology: How To Unlock The Secret of Boardroom Dynamics

Boardroom dynamics are complex, and crucial for the success of any organisation. Yet many people struggle to understand the realities of boardroom dynamics.
Cost Culture

How To Protect Culture during Cost Reduction

While cutting costs may be a necessary strategy for financial stability, how a company navigates this process speaks volumes about its organisational culture.
Performance Curve

How To Manage High Performance at Work

Have you ever asked the question in your workplace - what do we mean by high performance? High performance is defined as 'able to operate to a high standard or at a high speed' (Cambridge, 2025) but what does this look like in the workplace?
Behaviour at work

Three Ways Employee Behaviour Can Impact Your Profit

How we behave at work is down to the individual. Behaviour at work is down to the team, manager, organisation and society. Humans learn behaviours from their lived experience and other people. In reality, no amount of rules, procedures, operating models or surveillance can outweigh having staff who enjoy what they are doing, enjoy where they work, and enjoy who they are working with.
Reflection and resilience image, understanding another point of view

Reflection: Psychology of Learning Proven To Improve Training ROI

Reflection involves absorbing information, asking deep and probing questions, and challenging your understanding of situations or events.
Negativity in the workplace

How To Break The Moaning Cycle For A Productive Workplace

This week has brought with it an abundance of moaning, both at home and in the office. Humans need time to adapt, and while change is inevitable in life, it is essential for businesses to survive.
Conscious Competence Stages Learning Culture

How To Use The Four Stages of Conscious Competence To Improve Your Culture

The Conscious Competence model, also called the Four Stages of Competence, is a simple yet powerful way to understand how we acquire new skills and navigate any learning curve.
Job Design

The Importance of Job Design for Leaders: Practical Tips for Success

Effective job design is a critical element for any leader aiming to enhance organisational performance and employee engagement.
Leadership is authentic energy which helps others

Why All Leaders Need To Be Authentic

Having a boss, or superior who is authentic is something that people may take for granted. But is authenticity important and does it matter?
Bureaucracy pile of post it notes including strategy missing control all in different colours

Does Reducing Bureaucracy Make Your Business More Profitable?

When a client tells us they are frustrated because nothing gets done in their business because there is too much red tape we feel their pain.
Weak leadership causes stress and anxiety

How to Successfully Lead & Reduce Stress

Leaders play a vital role in reducing employee stress by fostering open communication, empathy, and support. Setting clear expectations, creating work-life balance initiatives, and recognising efforts - they all help create a positive environment where employees feel valued and heard.
Image of a man at work suffering stress

How to Reduce Organisational Hazards To Reduce Work-Related Stress

Organisations need to proactively manage workplace hazards to reduce the risk of stress for employees. This is a legal requirement. Stress is a physiological response to stressors, which can be individuals, environments or situations.
Inspiration, leaders, leadership, psychology

Leadership Fundamentals: Psychology, People, Purpose, Plans

Leadership is often defined as the ability to inspire, guide, and support a group of people toward achieving a shared vision.
Happiness at work

What is Happiness? Can Anyone Really Be Happy At Work?

Remember the last time you felt truly happy, have you ever felt truly happy? When you think about it, defining happiness or when, where, if you were happy can be difficult.
Blue sign saying work harder not smarter on the background of commercial buildings including scaffolding

Culture Alignment is Key to Make Work Really Work

This article explores how outdated leadership styles, poor communication, a lack of employee investment, and low productivity contribute to work not functioning well for individuals, teams, and organisations.
Workplace stress

Workplace Stress: Understanding the Hidden Dangers

Today, stress appears to be the biggest killer of people in workplaces. Yet how can we protect ourselves?
Rachel Vigers, Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, Think Organisation and Rock Partners

Think Rock: Aligning Culture with Strategy

Collaboration is how Think Organisation works, in fact, it is…
Leaders think.

Teaching Leaders How To Think: Ten Tips

Leadership today is more complex than ever, and as the world continues to evolve, leaders must face challenges that often have no historical precedent. Humans need to learn how to think.
target, accuracy, productivity, job design, improvement

How To Ensure Job Design Delivers Organisational Success

In the world of modern business, it can be difficult to know what to focus on first. Job design is one of those things which is vital to get right......
Image of a rainbow cake with the words what type of cake is your orgnisational culture?

A Slice Of Culture: Why Cake Is So Important

As a Culture Consultant, defining our role can often be challenging. For some clients, we delve into the intricate details of the evidence-based practices that underpin our work, ensuring behavioural changes across organisations.......
Toxic Culture

Five Steps to Fix A Toxic Culture

A negative workplace culture is an environment dominated by practices, policies and management styles that perpetuate unhealthy habits and conflicts.
KPI culture CEOs financial performance importance increase profit

Why The Most Successful CEOs Focus on Culture

A company's culture unconsciously influences the decisions employees make. Those decisions that employees make impact the results and success of a business, both directly and indirectly. The culture then impacts how people respond in the moment, especially when decisions are complex and there is no set process......
Psychometrics

Why Using Psychometrics Is Proven to Add Value to Your Business

Psycometrics provide a language which empowers teams to have conversations about behaviours. Giving people insight into the ways people work, and importantly how people can work together.
Image of old battered football on a muddy rubbish strewn floor with the words what can we learn above.

Losing Teaches Us How To Be Stronger Leaders

A game of football has a clear objective, to win by getting the ball in the net more than your opponents. Yet losing seems to spin millions of people into a negative spiral......
Business Culture

Leadership Insights 2024: Building a Strong Business Culture

Business culture impacts employee experience - it is the shared attitudes, beliefs, priorities and values which guide the behaviours of all employees......
Football & football boots representing different cultures.

Why Football Is A Great Metaphor of Organisational Culture.

Here at Think Organisation we can't help but notice the connections between football teams and organisational cultures. So how can we use football to demonstrate the importance of culture across organisations?......
Motivation

Can Leaders REALLY Motivate Their Employees?

The role of the leader is to communicate culture. Some believe the role of a leader is to motivate others. In reality, the role of a leader is to unite a team, communicate culture, and model core values so that the team fosters harmonious and inclusive work environments....
Red plastic toy figure standing away from a group of multicolour toy plastic figures all gathered under a glass jar.

Inclusion: Why Organisations Need to Stop Making Inclusion Exclusive

Inclusion is when someone, or something, feels or is part of a group. Inclusion can be a state, or an action. Behaviour can promote inclusion, or promote exclusion.
Leadership Development in an Artificially Intelligent World

Leadership in an Artificially Intelligent World.

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and to problem solve.
Culture

What Every Leader Needs to Know About Culture Consultants

Organisational culture is the way things are done in an organisation. Organisational Psychologists are taught how to assess and shape organisational cultures. There is extensive scientific research outlining ways to define, measure or manage culture......
Overcoming adversity

Adversity – Why Individuals, Teams and Organisations Need Coaching

Overcoming adversity and being resilient are all words which are frequently used in our workplaces today. Many leaders contact Think Organisation asking for training or coaching to help themselves, or their teams.
Transformation of Culture

How To Integrate Psychology Into Training To Deliver Optimal Results

In the UK, companies invest an average of £1,500 per employee annually on training (Employer Skills Survey, 2023).
diversity and inclusion

Why do we need Pac-Man for diversity and inclusion?

Have you ever thought about your childhood experience, and how this experience impacts your thoughts and perceptions of diversity and inclusion today?....
success

Is Your Culture Delivering Successful Results?

A successful organisation is one which accomplishes its aim or purpose. To do this, people need to be willing, able and aligned. A culture, with highly engaged employees, has been repeatedly proven to deliver significantly higher results.....
Culture Transformation

Transform Culture To Unleash Peak Performance

In the fast-paced world of business, where every decision impacts the bottom line, organisational culture emerges as a pivotal force, it can either propel a company to new heights or impede its progress.
Team Performance

Are Poor Team Dynamics Causing You Leadership Frustration?

Many clients come to us frustrated about the performance of others. Wasted time, effort or poor quality results from individuals often lead to a whole team not adding the expected value.
Toxic Work Culture

Is your toxic culture affecting your well-being?

We have all been there when we start a new job. The organisation described the culture as 'welcoming, ethical and focused on equality for all' to recruits.
Plan vs Reality - successful leaders

What can a successful leader learn from shoelaces? 

How often do you assess or measure if you are a successful leader? How often do you ask your team this question?  And what does being a successful leader have to do with shoelaces?......
Culture of Innovation

How to create a culture of innovation? 

How do you create a culture of innovation?  Innovation in business is the ability to conceive, develop, deliver, and scale new products, services, processes and business models for customers. ......
Image showing paracord intertwined to make stronger cord through change

Can a Great Workshop Change Behaviour at Work?

In most organisations, change begins with a meeting, not a workshop. However, a workshop is a vital meeting.
Motivation is made up of power, affiliation and achievement

Create Team Motivation When You Have No Payroll Budget

When resources are tight, motivation can feel like an impossible…
Being human

How To Help People Be Humans At Work To Drive Profits

Have you ever considered how the world is becoming more artificial? How people at work are becoming less human? More like automated machines.
Employee Engagement

How To Improve Employee Engagement on a Limited Budget

Employee engagement has fallen into and out of favour over the years. At times it is seen as an illusive concept which is difficult to quantify, measure or obtain....
Executive coaching

How To Ensure You Have a Credible Coach

In an era where leadership is defined by agility, resilience, and strategic foresight, executive coaching has become an essential lever for transformation.
Crafting Mental Health

Crafting: A Powerful Tool for Mental Wellbeing and Better Health

The other week, our Co-Founder Sarah was able to join the amazing Emma Semper on one of her upholstery crafting workshops, where she learnt how to upholster her very own noticeboard.
Lots of wooden people having conversations.

The Hidden Cost of Silence: Leading Through Conversations

Leadership isn’t always about vision boards, strategy decks, and celebrating success. It is about conversations.
Comfort zone, fight, flight, freeze and fawn

Comfort Zone: How Organisations Can Foster Growth

Stepping out of your comfort zone can feel like a mixture of excitement and fear. For some adventurous people it can become addictive!
Growth mindset

How A Growth Mindset Fosters Employee Achievement

Employee engagement and motivation are declining in many organisations, leading to lower productivity, higher staff turnover, and diminished morale across businesses and the UK.
Is anything really changing for women?

IWD: How To Create A Fair & Inclusive Workplace

At Think Organisation, we help leaders create inclusive workplaces for everyone, recognising that many groups (including women) continue to face marginalisation.
Speak up comments from people

Practical Tips To Create A Speak Up Culture

Have you ever sat in a meeting feeling nervous about speaking? Maybe you are unsure about the comment or suggestion you want to make, or maybe you are concerned about how to start what you want to say in the melee of others voicing their ideas.
Image showing seats with the words is that fair or unfair?

How To Create & Embed A Culture of Fairness

All organisations need to ensure consistency, transparency and fairness in all that they do. This is a fundamental principle which underpins years of research and practical application.
Cost Culture

How To Protect Culture during Cost Reduction

While cutting costs may be a necessary strategy for financial stability, how a company navigates this process speaks volumes about its organisational culture.
Diversity with a red cross over the diversity.

Leaders Need to Focus on Belonging Not DEI

Imagine a time in the future when everyone is included and has a real sense of belonging, no matter their race, colour, background, gender, socio-economic status, neuro-needs, or lifestyle preferences.
Behaviour at work

Three Ways Employee Behaviour Can Impact Your Profit

How we behave at work is down to the individual. Behaviour at work is down to the team, manager, organisation and society. Humans learn behaviours from their lived experience and other people. In reality, no amount of rules, procedures, operating models or surveillance can outweigh having staff who enjoy what they are doing, enjoy where they work, and enjoy who they are working with.
Negativity in the workplace

How To Break The Moaning Cycle For A Productive Workplace

This week has brought with it an abundance of moaning, both at home and in the office. Humans need time to adapt, and while change is inevitable in life, it is essential for businesses to survive.
Different types of thinking listed

Think About Thinking: A Productive New Year Resolution for Leaders

As humans, we think. It’s one of the defining traits of our species. Often, we even think about thinking. What happens when you try not to think? Or someone tells you to 'clear your mind'?
Conscious Competence Stages Learning Culture

How To Use The Four Stages of Conscious Competence To Improve Your Culture

The Conscious Competence model, also called the Four Stages of Competence, is a simple yet powerful way to understand how we acquire new skills and navigate any learning curve.
Leadership is authentic energy which helps others

Why All Leaders Need To Be Authentic

Having a boss, or superior who is authentic is something that people may take for granted. But is authenticity important and does it matter?
Bureaucracy pile of post it notes including strategy missing control all in different colours

Does Reducing Bureaucracy Make Your Business More Profitable?

When a client tells us they are frustrated because nothing gets done in their business because there is too much red tape we feel their pain.
Weak leadership causes stress and anxiety

How to Successfully Lead & Reduce Stress

Leaders play a vital role in reducing employee stress by fostering open communication, empathy, and support. Setting clear expectations, creating work-life balance initiatives, and recognising efforts - they all help create a positive environment where employees feel valued and heard.
Image of a man at work suffering stress

How to Reduce Organisational Hazards To Reduce Work-Related Stress

Organisations need to proactively manage workplace hazards to reduce the risk of stress for employees. This is a legal requirement. Stress is a physiological response to stressors, which can be individuals, environments or situations.
Workplace stress

Workplace Stress: Understanding the Hidden Dangers

Today, stress appears to be the biggest killer of people in workplaces. Yet how can we protect ourselves?
Rachel Vigers, Sarah Clarke and Steph Durbin, Think Organisation and Rock Partners

Think Rock: Aligning Culture with Strategy

Collaboration is how Think Organisation works, in fact, it is…
Leaders think.

Teaching Leaders How To Think: Ten Tips

Leadership today is more complex than ever, and as the world continues to evolve, leaders must face challenges that often have no historical precedent. Humans need to learn how to think.
Frustration at work - is the grass greener

Struggling at work? Here’s How To Understand Your Frustration

Are you feeling frustration at not being able to achieve what you want in your job? Do you get annoyed with the other people?
target, accuracy, productivity, job design, improvement

How To Ensure Job Design Delivers Organisational Success

In the world of modern business, it can be difficult to know what to focus on first. Job design is one of those things which is vital to get right......
Image of a rainbow cake with the words what type of cake is your orgnisational culture?

A Slice Of Culture: Why Cake Is So Important

As a Culture Consultant, defining our role can often be challenging. For some clients, we delve into the intricate details of the evidence-based practices that underpin our work, ensuring behavioural changes across organisations.......
Brain, psychology, working, business

99 Ways a Business Psychologist Can Improve Your Workplace

There are many titles for a Business Psychologist which describe the expertise and application of psychological principles.
KPI culture CEOs financial performance importance increase profit

Why The Most Successful CEOs Focus on Culture

A company's culture unconsciously influences the decisions employees make. Those decisions that employees make impact the results and success of a business, both directly and indirectly. The culture then impacts how people respond in the moment, especially when decisions are complex and there is no set process......
Psychometrics

Why Using Psychometrics Is Proven to Add Value to Your Business

Psycometrics provide a language which empowers teams to have conversations about behaviours. Giving people insight into the ways people work, and importantly how people can work together.
culture consultant

How To Select The Right Culture Consultant For Your Business.

Many organisations hire, or borrow talent when required, especially during periods of transition or transformation. Often talent required on a more permanent basis may not suit times of change.......
Motivation

Can Leaders REALLY Motivate Their Employees?

The role of the leader is to communicate culture. Some believe the role of a leader is to motivate others. In reality, the role of a leader is to unite a team, communicate culture, and model core values so that the team fosters harmonious and inclusive work environments....
Motivation

Staying Ahead of the Game: Top Trends in Work Motivation

In June 2024, two colleagues from the Think Organisation were invited to attend the BPS Occupational Psychology Annual Conference to present their research output from a Decade of Data.
Image showing wooden letters scattered across purple background with word motivation spelt underneath.

Motivation: Understanding What Drives People at Work

The reason a person acts or decides to behave in a certain way is usually down to motivation. Motivation itself is not visible. It is an internal process. Motivation is the driving force behind human actions that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviours......
Red plastic toy figure standing away from a group of multicolour toy plastic figures all gathered under a glass jar.

Inclusion: Why Organisations Need to Stop Making Inclusion Exclusive

Inclusion is when someone, or something, feels or is part of a group. Inclusion can be a state, or an action. Behaviour can promote inclusion, or promote exclusion.
Think Organisation Stress Model

How to Successfully Navigate Stress in Your Life

Stress is an external pressure that can positively or negatively impact individuals, teams, organisations or societies......
Thinking in organisations

THINK: How Can You Help People and Organisations Think?

The co-founders of Think Organisation took many months to agree what the Think Organisation should be called because of the power of words. Words possess immense power, shaping beliefs, emotions, and actions.
Engagement at Work

How do you unlock employee engagement in the workplace?

We all spend a third of our lifetime asleep and a third of our lifetime at work (OWID, 2024), so it would be perfect if we could all enjoy our time at work.
mental health

Is Poor Leadership Fuelling the Mental Health Crisis?

Leaders impact the mental health of their team, significantly more more than Doctors and Therapists. In fact, according to 69% of people surveyed across leaders have the biggest impact on their mental health.
Transformation of Culture

How To Integrate Psychology Into Training To Deliver Optimal Results

In the UK, companies invest an average of £1,500 per employee annually on training (Employer Skills Survey, 2023).
experience

Is your People Experience Missing Baked Beans or Peas?

What signs are there that you have a positive culture? What does your company do to support employees?
success

Is Your Culture Delivering Successful Results?

A successful organisation is one which accomplishes its aim or purpose. To do this, people need to be willing, able and aligned. A culture, with highly engaged employees, has been repeatedly proven to deliver significantly higher results.....
Team Performance

Are Poor Team Dynamics Causing You Leadership Frustration?

Many clients come to us frustrated about the performance of others. Wasted time, effort or poor quality results from individuals often lead to a whole team not adding the expected value.
Artificial relationships

Building artificial human relationships in the workplace. 

Whilst face-to-face communication has traditionally been viewed as the most effective and efficient way to satisfy human needs for social connectedness (Grieve, 2013), technology platforms have increasingly been used to enhance and satisfy the same connectedness needs.
Fair, unfair, culture

How To Make Your Work Culture Fair

Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly. Life is unfair. Life is fair. What do you think? And more importantly, since we spend all our time at work do you think your organisation treats you fairly.
Employee Engagement

How To Improve Employee Engagement on a Limited Budget

Employee engagement has fallen into and out of favour over the years. At times it is seen as an illusive concept which is difficult to quantify, measure or obtain....
Crafting Mental Health

Crafting: A Powerful Tool for Mental Wellbeing and Better Health

The other week, our Co-Founder Sarah was able to join the amazing Emma Semper on one of her upholstery crafting workshops, where she learnt how to upholster her very own noticeboard.
Brain Health at Work

How To Manage A Healthy Brain At Work

Often the clients we work with focus on processes, policies, handbooks, and ways of working as if they are leading machines rather than people. Yet, the human brain is very different to machines, or is it?
Image showing seats with the words is that fair or unfair?

How To Create & Embed A Culture of Fairness

All organisations need to ensure consistency, transparency and fairness in all that they do. This is a fundamental principle which underpins years of research and practical application.
Weak leadership causes stress and anxiety

How to Successfully Lead & Reduce Stress

Leaders play a vital role in reducing employee stress by fostering open communication, empathy, and support. Setting clear expectations, creating work-life balance initiatives, and recognising efforts - they all help create a positive environment where employees feel valued and heard.
Mental Health

Critical insight for people who don’t have mental health issues.

Mental Health Awareness week is approaching, and undoubtedly, numerous companies will soon be sharing positive messages about mental health and well-being. Many will follow the same well-trodden commercial marketing plans. Raising awareness is crucial, but it must lead to tangible behaviour change to truly make a difference......
Think Organisation Stress Model

How to Successfully Navigate Stress in Your Life

Stress is an external pressure that can positively or negatively impact individuals, teams, organisations or societies......
Thinking in organisations

THINK: How Can You Help People and Organisations Think?

The co-founders of Think Organisation took many months to agree what the Think Organisation should be called because of the power of words. Words possess immense power, shaping beliefs, emotions, and actions.
mental health

Is Poor Leadership Fuelling the Mental Health Crisis?

Leaders impact the mental health of their team, significantly more more than Doctors and Therapists. In fact, according to 69% of people surveyed across leaders have the biggest impact on their mental health.
Toxic Work Culture

Is your toxic culture affecting your well-being?

We have all been there when we start a new job. The organisation described the culture as 'welcoming, ethical and focused on equality for all' to recruits.
Artificial relationships

Building artificial human relationships in the workplace. 

Whilst face-to-face communication has traditionally been viewed as the most effective and efficient way to satisfy human needs for social connectedness (Grieve, 2013), technology platforms have increasingly been used to enhance and satisfy the same connectedness needs.
Image showing paracord intertwined to make stronger cord through change

Can a Great Workshop Change Behaviour at Work?

In most organisations, change begins with a meeting, not a workshop. However, a workshop is a vital meeting.
Creative Thinking

Think Better, Not Faster: The Science of Pausing for Innovation and Growth

Innovation happens when we deliver something new and useful to our customers, organisation or even society as a whole. But with innovation constantly declining, how can pausing help us innovate faster?
Motivation is made up of power, affiliation and achievement

Create Team Motivation When You Have No Payroll Budget

When resources are tight, motivation can feel like an impossible…
De Bono Thinking Hats Red White Blue Green Yellow

Put Your Thinking Hats On: Use De Bono’s Model To Unlock Better Ideas & Results

How we make decisions, come up with ideas, solve problems or approach challenges is all down to how we think. Imagine if you could change how you think based on the thinking hats you decide to put on your head.
Think Social Identity theory image of collective group of people

Can Understanding Social Identity Unlock Productivity In Your Team?

Leaders of teams cannot afford to overlook the science of human behaviour which can provide evidence-based solutions to common people challenges.
Business Psychology Models

Discover the Secrets of Business Psychology Models

A business can tap into a vast array of models depending on whether its focus is strategy, operations, people, innovation, change or culture. Some of these were highlighted in last week’s insights.
Emotional Intelligence Organisational Design

Evaluating Emotional Intelligence In Your Boardroom

Boardroom evaluations are a vital part of good governance and are a legal requirement for many organisations (e.g. UK listed businesses). Yet how many evaluations measure the emotional intelligence around the boardtable?
Being human

How To Help People Be Humans At Work To Drive Profits

Have you ever considered how the world is becoming more artificial? How people at work are becoming less human? More like automated machines.
Crafting Mental Health

Crafting: A Powerful Tool for Mental Wellbeing and Better Health

The other week, our Co-Founder Sarah was able to join the amazing Emma Semper on one of her upholstery crafting workshops, where she learnt how to upholster her very own noticeboard.
Facilitator Facilitation Quote

How a Professional Facilitator Can Save your Business Money

Board meetings are pivotal moments for strategic decision-making, governance, and organisational oversight. Yet how many businesses invest in a professional facilitator to ensure ROI is delivered?
HR budget going further

How To Maximise Your HR Budget & Deliver Goals

Every organisational budget will be feeling the challenge of having to make less into more as taxes and tariffs change. So what should leaders be doing?
boardroom power dynamics

Power Psychology: How To Unlock The Secret of Boardroom Dynamics

Boardroom dynamics are complex, and crucial for the success of any organisation. Yet many people struggle to understand the realities of boardroom dynamics.
Comfort zone, fight, flight, freeze and fawn

Comfort Zone: How Organisations Can Foster Growth

Stepping out of your comfort zone can feel like a mixture of excitement and fear. For some adventurous people it can become addictive!
Brain Health at Work

How To Manage A Healthy Brain At Work

Often the clients we work with focus on processes, policies, handbooks, and ways of working as if they are leading machines rather than people. Yet, the human brain is very different to machines, or is it?
Growth mindset

How A Growth Mindset Fosters Employee Achievement

Employee engagement and motivation are declining in many organisations, leading to lower productivity, higher staff turnover, and diminished morale across businesses and the UK.
Is anything really changing for women?

IWD: How To Create A Fair & Inclusive Workplace

At Think Organisation, we help leaders create inclusive workplaces for everyone, recognising that many groups (including women) continue to face marginalisation.
Diversity with a red cross over the diversity.

Leaders Need to Focus on Belonging Not DEI

Imagine a time in the future when everyone is included and has a real sense of belonging, no matter their race, colour, background, gender, socio-economic status, neuro-needs, or lifestyle preferences.
Performance Curve

How To Manage High Performance at Work

Have you ever asked the question in your workplace - what do we mean by high performance? High performance is defined as 'able to operate to a high standard or at a high speed' (Cambridge, 2025) but what does this look like in the workplace?
Reflection and resilience image, understanding another point of view

Reflection: Psychology of Learning Proven To Improve Training ROI

Reflection involves absorbing information, asking deep and probing questions, and challenging your understanding of situations or events.
Different types of thinking listed

Think About Thinking: A Productive New Year Resolution for Leaders

As humans, we think. It’s one of the defining traits of our species. Often, we even think about thinking. What happens when you try not to think? Or someone tells you to 'clear your mind'?
Image of a man at work suffering stress

How to Reduce Organisational Hazards To Reduce Work-Related Stress

Organisations need to proactively manage workplace hazards to reduce the risk of stress for employees. This is a legal requirement. Stress is a physiological response to stressors, which can be individuals, environments or situations.
Inspiration, leaders, leadership, psychology

Leadership Fundamentals: Psychology, People, Purpose, Plans

Leadership is often defined as the ability to inspire, guide, and support a group of people toward achieving a shared vision.
Understanding Others, Personality, Success

Understanding Others: How To Drive Business Success

In today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, the ability to understand another persons point of view has never been more important.
Leaders think.

Teaching Leaders How To Think: Ten Tips

Leadership today is more complex than ever, and as the world continues to evolve, leaders must face challenges that often have no historical precedent. Humans need to learn how to think.
Frustration at work - is the grass greener

Struggling at work? Here’s How To Understand Your Frustration

Are you feeling frustration at not being able to achieve what you want in your job? Do you get annoyed with the other people?
target, accuracy, productivity, job design, improvement

How To Ensure Job Design Delivers Organisational Success

In the world of modern business, it can be difficult to know what to focus on first. Job design is one of those things which is vital to get right......
Brain, psychology, working, business

99 Ways a Business Psychologist Can Improve Your Workplace

There are many titles for a Business Psychologist which describe the expertise and application of psychological principles.
Image of old battered football on a muddy rubbish strewn floor with the words what can we learn above.

Losing Teaches Us How To Be Stronger Leaders

A game of football has a clear objective, to win by getting the ball in the net more than your opponents. Yet losing seems to spin millions of people into a negative spiral......
Business Culture

Leadership Insights 2024: Building a Strong Business Culture

Business culture impacts employee experience - it is the shared attitudes, beliefs, priorities and values which guide the behaviours of all employees......
Motivation

Can Leaders REALLY Motivate Their Employees?

The role of the leader is to communicate culture. Some believe the role of a leader is to motivate others. In reality, the role of a leader is to unite a team, communicate culture, and model core values so that the team fosters harmonious and inclusive work environments....
Image showing wooden letters scattered across purple background with word motivation spelt underneath.

Motivation: Understanding What Drives People at Work

The reason a person acts or decides to behave in a certain way is usually down to motivation. Motivation itself is not visible. It is an internal process. Motivation is the driving force behind human actions that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviours......
Leadership Development in an Artificially Intelligent World

Leadership in an Artificially Intelligent World.

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and to problem solve.
Artificial Intelligence

Human Behaviour and Artificial Intelligence: Why Their Connection Really Matters

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. First invented in 1950s, it is only recently that Artificial intelligence has become so prolific across society as a whole. Ten years ago AI was still a dream for the majority of us.
Mental Health

Critical insight for people who don’t have mental health issues.

Mental Health Awareness week is approaching, and undoubtedly, numerous companies will soon be sharing positive messages about mental health and well-being. Many will follow the same well-trodden commercial marketing plans. Raising awareness is crucial, but it must lead to tangible behaviour change to truly make a difference......
Culture

What Every Leader Needs to Know About Culture Consultants

Organisational culture is the way things are done in an organisation. Organisational Psychologists are taught how to assess and shape organisational cultures. There is extensive scientific research outlining ways to define, measure or manage culture......
Thinking in organisations

THINK: How Can You Help People and Organisations Think?

The co-founders of Think Organisation took many months to agree what the Think Organisation should be called because of the power of words. Words possess immense power, shaping beliefs, emotions, and actions.
Engagement at Work

How do you unlock employee engagement in the workplace?

We all spend a third of our lifetime asleep and a third of our lifetime at work (OWID, 2024), so it would be perfect if we could all enjoy our time at work.
Transformation of Culture

How To Integrate Psychology Into Training To Deliver Optimal Results

In the UK, companies invest an average of £1,500 per employee annually on training (Employer Skills Survey, 2023).
Artificial relationships

Building artificial human relationships in the workplace. 

Whilst face-to-face communication has traditionally been viewed as the most effective and efficient way to satisfy human needs for social connectedness (Grieve, 2013), technology platforms have increasingly been used to enhance and satisfy the same connectedness needs.
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