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Level up your ‘F’ word conversations in the workplace through our range of articles, resources and science about emotional culture.
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Ei Cafe with Azeem - Do emotions even belong in the workplace

Do emotions even belong in the workplace

Ei Cafe with Azeem Podcast

It’s a loaded question, but one every organization should be thinking about. No matter where your organization stands, the reality

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66. Using the F Word at Work

Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast

Dare you bring the f word into the workplace? Have you considered the amount of emotional contagion that negatively affects your

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The Kind of Team Connection That Actually Changes How Teams Work

After years of working with teams and quietly observing how people show up at work, I’ve developed a perspective on

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How Workplace Rituals Shape Organisational Culture and Leadership Behaviour

Why Organisational Culture Change Often Feels Hard for Leaders When leaders tell us they want to work on culture, it

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Is culture your responsibility?

When I speak to leaders and mention culture, I see a metaphorical two hands up in the air and a

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Building a People-Centric Culture

“83% of organisations want to build a more people-centric culture” – LinkedIn 2023 Workplace Learning Report According to this LinkedIn

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Who is influencing negatively in your organisation?

[Part 3 of 3] And just like that, here we are for the third and final part of our toxic

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The second biggest influence of toxic culture

[Part 2 of 3] I hope you found Part One of this mini-series on toxic culture insightful. My hope is

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Toxic culture can show up in many ways…

[Part 1 of 3] When we think about culture, our minds often go to toxic cultures – those you have

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Emotional Culture Workshop

Why Co-Creating is Key…

Last month I worked with a wonderful NFP doing beyond-amazing work in the support services space.  The work I was

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Values, Behaviours, Emotions

Emotions drive Behaviours.  And Behaviours drive the Values.

Chatting with a new client earlier this week, we were chatting about the link between emotions and values. Emotional culture

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The Role of the Leader in Crafting Culture

I have been predominantly working in the space of culture over the last year as we face into challenges like

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Why we need to understand our Emotional Culture

When we think about how we behave and what we observe in the workplace, its often that we associate bad

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Culture: It’s not just about how we meet and make decisions…

“The power in culture comes together through your sub-cultures” Did you know that subcultures don’t only show up in functional

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The side effects of suppressing emotions in the workplace

Have you ever wondered why you reach for an alcoholic beverage after work or at the end of a ‘long

Need to see the Science?

Harvard Business Review

Manage Your Emotional Culture

Sigal Barsade and Olivia A. O’Neill

University of Cambridge

How Emotions Shape Our Worklife

Craig Brierley

University of Pennsylvania

Emotional Culture Crafting and its Influence on Team Process and Visibility

Elizabeth Wolf; Jacob Levitt & Sigal Barsade