Brain-Friendly Change

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This Brain-Friendly Change Webinar is delivered by Deborah Hulme and Nick Smith. Deborah is Director of Minerva Engagement, specialists in applied neuroscience for high performance and wellbeing and Nick Smith is Director of business change specialists, Epion Consulting. Deborah and Nick share their insights and experience of organisational […]
1. Organisational Change: We’ve Got a Change Problem!

This is the first in a series of three blogs developed in partnership with Nick Smith at Epion Consulting in which we talk about our organisational change problem; a critical, but neglected, issue in effecting successful organisational change and importantly, how we can address it. WE’VE GOT AN ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE PROBLEM We’ve got an organisational […]
2. Organisational Change: We Need Change Enablers Not Change Managers

In this second in a series of three jointly authored blogs Deborah Hulme and Nick Smith of Epion Consulting talk about a critical, but neglected, issue in effecting organisational change – and how we need change enablers not change managers if we are to address it. In the first blog, we highlighted that even where […]
3. Organisational Change: 3Cs for Brain-Friendly Change

In this, the third of three blogs jointly authored with Minerva’s Deborah Hulme and Nick Smith of Epion Consulting, we discuss our approach to “Brain-Friendly Change”. In the first blog; We’ve Got a Change Problem, we drew on recent neurological discovery to outline how lack of connection, wellbeing, and psychological safety, all much exacerbated by […]
Unpicking the Links Between Psychological and Physical Safety

In this article featured in this month’s Personnel Today, we explore the links between psychological and physical safety in the workplace. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & WELLBEING – WORKPLACE WELLBEING NEWS & GUIDANCE FROM PERSONNEL TODAY It is well recognised that feeling supported and safe psychologically can enhance individual and team performance in the workplace. But it […]
Mental Health Awareness Week: Communicating with Audience Wellbeing in Mind

In this guest blog for our colleagues at Sequel Group and in support of Mental Health Awareness Week, Deborah Hulme, founder of Minerva Engagement and the Neuroleader Academy™ asks communications teams to consider communicating with audience wellbeing in mind and to think about what they can do to address attention deficit. Mental Health Awareness Week […]
Building a Fearless Organisation for High Performance and Wellbeing

People drive performance but we often forget the human element in business. Here Minerva’s Jennie Flower considers the role of psychological safety in taking care of the humans who sit at the heart of our organisations and how that contributes to improved performance and wellbeing. So how exactly does psychological safety contribute to high performance […]
Business is a Living System

Our default position is to think of business as a machine and because of that, we sometimes miss the importance of the human element and the human energy within organisations.
Measuring the X-Factor: Psychological Safety Assessment is Key to Leadership’s Return

In this guest blog, Mike Taylor, co-founder of our coaching and consulting partners; Accelerating Experience, explores how Covid has accelerated the need for psychological safety assessment in measuring leadership effectiveness and employee wellness in line with organisational KPIs. Within the context of a global pandemic, it can be argued that never has the need for […]
How Measuring Psychological Safety Enables a Proactive Approach to Employee Mental Wellbeing

In this blog, written to coincide with World Mental Health Day, Helen Stephens reflects on 2020 and explores how measuring psychological safety enables a proactive approach to employee mental wellbeing. Psychological safety is a lead indicator for employee mental wellbeing. Having the tools available for measuring psychological safety across a team or an organisation provides […]