Are workplaces fit for humans?
Last week I was talking with ‘Kimmy’ (not her real name). She was telling me about her intense frustration with work. When I say ‘intense frustrations’ I mean the ‘hair pulling’ type – and it [...]
Last week I was talking with ‘Kimmy’ (not her real name). She was telling me about her intense frustration with work. When I say ‘intense frustrations’ I mean the ‘hair pulling’ type – and it [...]
There’s a lot of hoopla about creating a ‘good’ organisational culture. I recently read an interesting paper by Professor R Westrum (Eastern Michigan University) which presents a typology model [...]
This is my story about following my heart and the magic that happened in the workplace when I started working from the heart. In 2009, after much soul searching and in a desperate attempt to find [...]
My co-founder Jen West and I recently delivered two training workshops to operational-level staff (12 participants in each workshop) from two separate areas within the same organisation. These [...]
I recently accompanied a client on a site visit to Flight Centre’s new Brisbane headquarters. What an impressive office! The building is ultra-modern with lots of open space, travel-themed [...]
The term ‘human factors’ has been in the aviation lexicon since the 1970s to describe the ‘non-technical’ skills required to operate an aircraft safely in a team-based environment. These [...]
Just over 12 months ago, we (Jennifer West and Graham Miller, founders of Humans Being At Work) worked with a large public sector organisation which, for some time, had been operating under a [...]
Last night I typed ‘leadership’ into Google and guess how many items were displayed? 640,000,000! Yes that’s right 640,000,000! It seems leadership is a much analysed topic. It is also quite [...]
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