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We pride ourselves on providing our clients with new knowledge from research. We use our articles, media coverage and newsletters to lead the wellbeing conversation in New Zealand.
Positive leadership during change management
Change doesn’t happen in one big bang, it happens over the course of thousands of small moments. If you are leading change at the moment, however big or small, you’ll already know how difficult [...]
What really helps when work demands are high?
Did you hear? We recently published new research in the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations in partnership with Professor Jarrod Haar from Massey University. For those of you with an appetite for journal [...]
Who’s at your dream dinner party? What about your meeting table?
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party? It’s a classic icebreaker, deployed to make you think, get to the root of who you admire, and what makes you tick. Sometimes the answer points [...]
The four horsemen of failing work relationships
When it comes to predicting the breakdown of a romantic relationship, leading relationships researcher John Gottman proposed that there are “four horsemen of communication” that signal things are turning sour. While the name taps [...]
Menopause at work: raising awareness, providing support
In 2019 at age 46, Sarah Connor, like many Gen X women, landed in perimenopause without knowing what that meant. The series of hormonal changes typical of midlife impacted every aspect of her [...]
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