Emotional Salary is the non-financial or emotional gains we obtain from working that motivate us, change our perception of work and lead to personal and professional development.

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How to be a better leader by focusing on Emotional Salary

In this blog we’re going to explore how focusing on Emotional Salary can make you a better leader. We’ll look at what Emotional Salary is and share some free resources to help you understand more about the concept. We’ll give you some great ideas for you to understand more about your own Emotional Salary and […]

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The relationship between quiet quitting and Emotional Salary

In this blog we explore the relationship between quiet quitting and emotional salary. We’ll look at what the risks are for organisations and employees, what causes quiet quitting, and what leaders and organisations can do to minimise it. What is quiet quitting? Every work-related headline now is about quiet quitting. There are viral videos on […]

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7 Reasons Why Your Retention Strategy Isn’t Working

Retention Strategy or Environment? It can be easy not to accept that your retention strategy isn’t working and blame the post-pandemic environment we’re living in. After all, so many headlines point toward a lack of workers causing chaos in so many industries and companies worldwide struggling to recruit and retain staff. Whilst retaining employees is […]

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Decreasing employee resistance to organizational change through Emotional Salary

“Change is the only constant in life.” Heraclitus When the going gets tough, and it always does, you will need all your people to row with you. We are talking about a constant in our workplaces: Change. Change is a constant inevitable. It is just a steady process that we all need to learn to […]

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Why co-creation is the answer to the leadership challenges we’re facing

To a certain extent leaders have always faced the same challenges they are facing now – how to motivate their teams and how to manage performance, team dynamics and resistance to change with compassion. But on top of these challenges, we have a whole new set of challenges which have become much more predominant due […]

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Improving Mental Health in the Workplace with Emotional Salary

Fortunately, mental health in the workplace has become much more of a talking point and a focus for organisations over the past few years, although there is still a lot more room for improvement. Mental health issues are said to affect one in four people at some point in their lives and can have a […]

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Spring Clean Your Work Life to Be More Productive

When we talk about improving aspects our work life, we often think about what we can add in or do more of. We might suggest things like adding in a walk at lunchtime to clear our heads, taking on more responsibility and projects to improve our professional career, or implementing techniques to become more productive […]

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How Emotional Salary Differs to Employee Benefits

Often, times when we are talking to existing or future clients about Emotional Salary for their organisation, one of the main areas of confusion is how Emotional Salary is different to the employee benefits they may already be offering in their company. In this article, we will look at the main differences between the two […]

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How to Talk to your Team about Emotional Salary

Do you have a clear idea about what each one of your team members values most about their work? If you do, then congratulations – you’re in the minority! In this blog post we’ll explore why it is so important to understand your team’s Emotional Salary, learn how you can capitalize on it and how […]

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How to Retain Top Talent in Times of Uncertainty

When times are uncertain and you are unsure of what lies ahead for your business, it can be easy to lose focus on what got you there in the first place – your employees. Consider this, if the pandemic ended tomorrow and everything was back to normal, would your business thrive if it didn’t retain […]

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Improve Motivation to Work With Non-Financial Motivators

How does somebody stay motivated at work? To know this, firstly, you have to discover the real reason behind their lack of motivation to work. Could they be trying to motivate themselves to do something that they don’t particularly enjoy or care that much about? In a professional context, we don’t always have control over […]

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Remote Working Solutions: Informal Learning, Unsuitable Processes and Policies and Too Many Meetings

Working remotely has many challenges, particularly when working from home as many of us have been doing this year. This is the last in our series of blogs about the challenges of remote working and how to solve them. In previous blogs we’ve covered how to overcome isolation, disconnection and exclusion; dealing with distractions, lack […]

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Remote working Solutions: Dealing with distractions, lack of structure and a poor physical work environment

In this blog we explore the practical side of working remotely and look at what many of us struggle with – distractions, the lack of structure and a physical work environment that may not have been designed for working. This is the third in our series of blogs on remote working, the first topic we […]

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How to overcome isolation, feeling disconnected or being overlooked while working remotely

A third of the people we asked in a recent poll said they were struggling to work remotely. This is the second in a series of blogs on how to overcome the main challenges of working remotely. Here we look at two separate but connected problems that relate to our perception of how connected we […]

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How to overcome overwork and burnout while working remotely

Are you or someone in your team struggling to work remotely?   In an informal poll we did recently, one third of people said they were struggling with working remotely. This is the first in a series of blogs where we look at the main reasons for this problem and what you can do about […]

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10 Things Leaders need to do when returning to the workplace after lockdown

As we start emerging from lockdown and navigating the reality of what work will look like after Covid-19, it’s essential that we don’t try and “get back to normal”. We can’t underestimate the impact that the pandemic has had on us, both in relation to the way we work and also how we feel about […]

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Ownership and responsibility at work

In this blog we’ll look at what senior business leaders consider to be the “skills gap” we need to plug in order to overcome the challenges we are facing from the current situation and the future of work, and what this might mean for business results. We will also share with you our 3-step process […]

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Emotional Salary in times of crisis and uncertainty

What happens in times of crisis? Emotional Salary, the emotional benefits we get from working, plays a huge role in helping us get through crisis situations – both on an individual and organisational level. As individuals, these kinds of situations tend to bring out the best and worst in us. At work, we are often […]

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How leaders become self-aware?

In this blog, we want to write about the topic of self-awareness because of it’s strong importance in the success of everything. That might sound like a very broad claim to say that something can be responsible for the success of everything, but hear us out. Self-awareness is the first step in increasing emotional intelligence […]

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How To Be Creative at Work

We often think of ourselves as being either a very creative person or not at all. We rarely see the grey area that exists between both. Most people actually fall somewhere within this spectrum of creativity and are just lacking either the opportunity to show off their creative skills or the knowledge on how to […]

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