Tag: culture

Dr Leandro Herrero: Organisations live in two realities at the same time. There is the audio: what the organisation says about itself. It comes through strategies, values, leadership programmes, town halls, intranets, presentations and increasingly polished corporate language. And then there…

James McCann: The PR industry has made genuine efforts to tackle overwork through remote and flexible working. But until agencies and communications teams move beyond valuing hours to adopt capability and outcome-based models, those carrying the greatest responsibilities outside work…

Nicholas Wardle: In many organisations, understanding what truly motivates people remains an ongoing challenge. Historically, People & Culture teams have struggled to prove that the “people stuff” drives performance. We know culture matters. We know purpose, values, and belonging matter.…

Simon Cavendish: Organisations often talk about ‘fixing’ their culture, as if it’s something that drifted off course on its own. But culture rarely behaves that way. It is largely shaped by what leaders consistently reward, tolerate, ignore, and challenge –…

Kateryna Byelova: The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) shapes cultural and tourism agendas for the Emirate, while bringing together more than 2,400 employees across diverse sectors. An organization that influences cultural experience cannot treat…

Adam Raelson: Understanding how people communicate, make decisions, and interact in global workplaces is critical to business success. One of the most widely recognized tools for exploring how individuals think and perceive their environment is through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator…

Rebecca Sangster-Kelly: Congrats – you’ve landed a new role! Escaped what some may say was a toxic work environment. However, when we leave a challenging workplace culture, we are liable to bring some of it with us: in the way…

Kateryna Byelova: Connecting 33 nationalities inside an operational workforce Kuwait Steel employs almost one thousand people, with more than one-third working in production roles. With 33 nationalities represented across the organization, diversity is a structural reality, not a slogan. Yet…

Adam Raelson: A note before we begin: This article does not argue that any culture is superior or inferior to another, nor that people from one country always behave a certain way. Instead, it explores how cultures tend to perceive…

Dr Leandro Herrero: Culture has been declared dead more times than we can count. Each decade brings its own assassin — strategy, process, leadership, engagement, agility, purpose, wellbeing, now AI. Yet it survives every attempt, reborn under a new name.…

Anthony Monks: In 2025, a new term has entered the workplace lexicon: quiet cracking. First coined by TalentLMS, this evocative phrase captures a subtle, but growing emotional strain within modern organisations.  It is an internal tension that doesn’t explode like…

Janet Hitchen:  I recently read a LinkedIn post where the author mocked a company for listing a core value they considered obvious. They dissed it as a red flag and performative. Many professionals nodded along, dismissing any organisation that dares…