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Developing Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a key competence for roles requiring leadership, influence & collaboration. Find out how the Apter EMotivation toolkit supports EI.
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 recently, it was with the brief of talking about the science of listening. It's obvious that it’s important...
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...
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...
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...
Employee Experience: Clarifying the Terminology
If you’re interested in the impact of your workplace on people, and indeed the impact of people on your workplace, you’ll come across many related and overlapping terms such as Culture, Employee Experience, Employee Engagement, Employee Value Proposition (EVP), and...
How to Break the Negative Performance Management Cycle
It’s pretty clear that for millions of working people the experience of Performance Management; or the process by which organisations set targets for, measure and reward employees; is, ranges from tedium to stress-inducing misery. Even Senior Leaders, in whose name...
Welcome to 8Connect
As the founder of 8Connect Consulting I'd like to take a moment to welcome you to our blog. I started 8Connect because, after 20 years of working in consulting, change and operational leadership roles, I believe that many businesses need to make fundamental shifts in...
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