Quick Guides

Organizational culture is often considered the personality of an organization, as it shapes its identity, influences employee behavior, and affects how work is done.

Prioritizing meeting the needs or expectations of others, seeking external validation and approval, and struggling with setting healthy boundaries or asserting your needs.

Perfectionism can lead to excessive stress, unrealistic expectations, missed opportunities, decreased productivity, and impaired well-being, learning how to combat perfectionist tendencies is critical for empowering productivity.

The intentional and strategic shaping of the way that an individual presents themselves to others.

In a psychologically safe environment, individuals feel comfortable sharing their perspectives, asking questions, admitting mistakes, and taking risks without the fear of judgment or reprisal.

A phenomenon in the workplace that describes how some women in positions of power may treat other women in a condescending or unsupportive way, either consciously or unconsciously.

Rest is an essential tool for fostering resilience, commonly rest is seen as just physical, yet there are multiple modes of resting and each can build resilience in different ways.

Self awareness is a vital skill that underpins the growth needed to master many of the attributes that are needed to thrive in both personal and professional life.

In a shared leadership model, team members are encouraged and empowered to contribute their unique skills, expertise, and perspectives towards achieving common goals.

Understanding the distinction between stress and stressors is important as we need to manage stress and stressors differently.

A holistic approach with a focus on understanding the underlying patterns, structures, and dynamics of a system, rather than isolating individual parts or events.

Thought leaders provide value and insights that contribute to their field and positively impact their areas of business.

Toxic leadership can take many forms, it can be incredibly subtle and hard to pinpoint or it can be overt and hard to navigate.

Toxic positivity in the workplace is detrimental as it disregards genuine emotions, hinders communication, ignores diversity, fosters unrealistic expectations, and undermines authentic leadership.

Triggers and reactivity are interconnected. By becoming aware of triggers we can work to become less reactive and manage stress better in the workplace.

Values reflect an individual's sense of what is important, meaningful, and worthwhile, and serve as a guiding framework for decision-making, behavior and actions.

Work-life balance can mean different things to different people, often mistaken for the desire to work less, it is in fact a desire to find one's own personal picture of what the ideal work environment could be in order to thrive, in both work and life.

Finding meaning and purpose in the work we do unlocks a deeper level of satisfaction, it is critical in building a career that is long term sustainable, it minimizes the risks of burnout and can serve to ground a greater sense of work life balance.

Micromanagement can be seen when a manager is overly involved in a person's work, it can erode self esteem, confidence, ability to think critically and hinder career progression.

The manifestation of an organization's culture, office politics can make or break an experience of a workplace.