Positive Psychology: Engaged employees are good for business

Positive Psychology: Engaged employees are good for businessIntroduction Have you ever stopped to reflect on what factors impact your motivation (or lack of) at work? And how much importance does your organisation place on employees’ experience while working? Over the last 20 years, a proliferation of research has evidenced that engaged and motivated employees are…

Psychometric Tests: A Revolution in Measuring Human Behaviour

Psychometric Tests: A Revolution in Measuring Human BehaviourCan we really measure behaviour? Human beings are deeply complex. We display a multitude of different behaviours and emotions and might react to the same set of circumstances in completely different ways. We have different approaches to the opportunities and difficulties life brings and differing perceptions of what…

MyPeople Culture… Unlocking an organisation’s potential

MyPeople Culture… Unlocking an organisation’s potential We at MyPeople believe that an organisation’s culture is the key to unlocking that organisation’s potential. Hillary Odiakaose from the University of Benin agrees, stating ‘the culture of an organisation, to a very large extent, determines the performance of the individuals that work in that organisation and by extension,…

How to support new ways of working

This year we have all found ourselves working a little differently. Organisations and employees have had to adapt to huge amounts of change with little notice. The increase in working from home was gathering pace prior to the pandemic but the acceleration in which this has happened is unprecedented. Alongside this, employees have found themselves…

Hiring for Team Fit

Have you read ‘Alchemy: The surprising power of ideas that don’t make sense’ by Rory Sutherland? There is an abbreviated extract around recruitment that I want to share. ‘Imagine you have ten roles to fill, and you ask ten colleagues to each hire one person. They will all try to recruit the best person they…