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Kristen Gyorgak
blog
20 June 2022
OH F*CK! and other F-word threat responses
When we're threatened our responses can be classified with a lot of F words. Kristen explores what they look like and actions we can take in response.
Kristen Gyorgak
webinar
16 June 2022
Tea & Toast: When and how to take a break
All sorts of evidence shows that taking breaks is good for our health and wellbeing. And yet - many of us still don't take enough breaks. Or we don't take helpful ones.
Want to be a better break taker? Join Kristen's June webinar for insights and practical actions.
Kristen Gyorgak
31 May 2022
Build better habits
Kristen explores five lessons from James Clear's book: Atomic Habits. Want to build better habits and break bad ones? Take a read here!
Dinah Vincent
webinar
26 May 2022
Tea & Toast: Employee engagement for new ways of working
Our workplaces have changed: flexible hours, working from home, remote and hybrid teams are all part of the mix. So what are you doing to promote and maintain employment engagement? Dinah looks at some recent research and revisits some established wisdom.
Kristen Gyorgak
blog
17 May 2022
Build hope at work
We hear a lot about building hope at work. How can we do that? Take a look at four types of hope we can build.
Hilary Bryan
webinar
28 April 2022
Tea & Toast: A dive into the Cynefin Framework
All models are wrong, but some are useful - we know that. And this is one of the most useful. The Cynefin Framework guides your decision-making, leadership and overall understanding of your context. If you know it already, we'll add some flesh to the bones. If you don't know it, now's your chance for a succinct breakdown of its elements and strategies for operating in the clear, the complicated, the complex and the chaotic.
Kristen Gyorgak
blog
25 April 2022
3 work lessons from a kids book
Work lessons can come from anywhere. And it's extra fun when it's in rhyming format. Here are three work reflections Kristen took from Jeanne Willis and Isabelle Follath's book 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?'
Dinah Vincent
Read blog
14 April 2022
Disordered thinking? Or diverse thinking
Cognitive diversity (how we think) is one of the elements of diversity we encourage people to consider in workshops that focus on inclusion. What are the benefits of diverse thinking, and how can you support it at work?
Kristen Gyorgak
webinar
31 March 2022
Tea & Toast: Service design to create great customer experiences
Service design and customer experience are fundamental to how we engage with customers.
In this month's Tea & Toast webinar, Kristen dives into what makes service design work, and shares examples of well-designed and poorly-designed services and principles we can all integrate into our work.
Kristen Gyorgak
blog
29 March 2022
The connection between design and equality
Every product we buy, every service we use and every environment we operate in has been designed. But do they support equality and equity - or make it harder?