Tag: teams
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What is Organisational Wellbeing?

In an organisation that I have been working with recently, we have been paying attention to wellbeing – and creating a ‘wellbeing plan’. Clearly an important aim, even if the term wellbeing is beginning to feel overused and at risk of inducing cynicism in those who are hoped to be the recipients of the well-intentioned…
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Could your team be languishing rather than burnt out?
In the early 2000’s sociologist Core Keyes coined the term languishing. Keyes described languishing as the region between poor psychological health and complete psychological health (or “flourishing”). Importantly for an individual, flourishing was not simply an absence of mental illness – but more a state filled with positive emotion and functioning well psychologically and socially.…
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How Do We Create a Team?
Some teams appear to come together effortlessly, while other groupscannot seem to coalesce even with major interventions devoted tothe task. The process of forming functional teams can be one of thehardest tasks within an organisation. Becoming a successful team happens more easily when members establish good communication patterns and acknowledge the qualities and abilities of…