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Disrupting Leadership Training – Why Leadership should be for the many, not the few.
There are typically three overlapping models that tend to get used by businesses for leadership training and development. The career stage model - Businesses invest in an individual (or individuals) at a particular stage of their career, often later into their...
How to create a wellbeing strategy for your organisation.
Creating an effective wellbeing strategy for your organisation can have a dramatic impact on organisational as well as individual development and performance. It barely needs stating that employee wellbeing has never been more important. Our Mental Fitness and...
What are your Mental Fitness goals for 2022?
Whether or not you think New Year's Resolutions are a good idea, it's pretty common at this time of the year for people to make plans for things they want to achieve or “tick off the list” during the next 12 months. Taking some time to reflect and to define these...
How can HR help to lead the way in dealing with complex change
Can embracing complexity help HR departments build organisational resilience? The last two years of the Pandemic have been hard for everyone in the workplace and at home. But certain workplace roles have at times found themselves facing tougher challenges than...
Empathy and Beyond – Compassionate Leadership.
The idea that Eskimos have lots and lots of words for snow is a commonly understood shorthand for recognising that the more familiar we are with something, the more nuanced our abilities to describe it becomes. Here at Cognomie we share the view of a lot of people...
Why empathy is a vital characteristic of leadership
Empathy is not always talked about enough as a competency that is at the heart of strong and effective leadership. Empathy is about being aware of the feelings and thoughts of others and showing understanding of them, as opposed to just acknowledging them. Brene...
Vulnerable Leadership. Why being a Mental Fitness role model is integral to being an effective leader.
Various team members here have found themselves watching the global Netflix hit Money Heist to wind down over the last few months. It’s high octane, high adrenaline and high drama. One of the things we’ve loved about it here at Cognomie is the way it offers a not...
How is your organisation responding to The Great Resignation?
The great resignation is impacting all kinds of organisations. We’ve been through immense change in the last few years. Covid has forced us all to change our lifestyles and working practices. It seems as though those changes are far from over. One of the hottest...
Mental Fitness Beyond Covid
Mental fitness always matters in the workplace but it matters now more than ever. Whilst it might be years before researchers understand the true cost of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that incorporating employee mental wellbeing into their COVID-19...
Mental Fitness and Leadership
How can Mental Fitness help create better leaders? Leading organisations in a fast changing world is challenging and requires constant agility and the ability to perform at the limits of one’s personal capabilities. Here’s 5 reasons why we think monitoring,...
Why Mental Fitness Matters
Mental Fitness is the capacity and ability to improve your performance through taking control of your state of psychological and emotional wellbeing. It’s generated through the ability to identify and manage your internal capacities such as focus, attention,...
Resilience: The Art of the ‘Bounce Back’
Is Resilience on your mind? It’s certainly on ours. Through our Global Mental Fitness Index we (at Cognomie), know that, not surprisingly, the world is feeling less Resilient right now than it did 12 months ago (pre-pandemic). We have captured data across...
Wellbeing at Work – 2021 Middle East Summit
We were delighted to sponsor the Wellbeing at Work Middle East Summit this year, particularly as wellbeing is becoming such a focus for the region’s most forward-thinking enterprises. It was encouraging and uplifting to hear so many positive stories from industry...
Geoff McDonald interview: Reset, restore and renew.
As we move through the phases of the pandemic it feels we might start to see the light of recovery around the corner. As we approach this time we’ve spoken to global thought-leader, Geoff McDonald, to better understand the priorities he envisages for organisational...
Why invest in optimism?
Optimism can be a powerful force underpinning our personal Mental Fitness. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan write, following a multi-year organisational research project, in the Harvard Business Review ‘imagine if double the number of people on your team felt like...
Are your employee benefits personalised?
A recent report by the Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) highlighted two important insights. Firstly 91% of organisations surveyed plan to review their employee benefits packages in the next 2 years with 61% planning to undertake a major strategic...
Creating a coaching culture – can coaching transform and develop your organisation?
Coaching can transform individuals. Building a sustainable coaching culture at the heart of your organisation can unlock potential and be a powerful driver of agility, innovation and development. Coaching has become a familiar part of the business and...
Have you signed the menopause workplace pledge?
Have you or your organisation signed the menopause workplace pledge? The Government Equalities Office recentlypublished a response to a series of recommendations from a roundtable that was formed to investigate actions from the Minister of Employment on how best to...
How will you recharge your resilience this summer?
Our resilience is the driving force that keeps us moving forward through the challenges life throws at us. Whether the big challenges of life like new careers, health challenges, dealing with loss and navigating a global pandemic, or the smaller everyday challenges...
Are your employees thriving?
We are big advocates of the idea of employee engagement and the associated movement to create more workplaces where employees want to give their best each day. In the words of engagement advocate David Macleod, “This is about how we create the conditions in which...
Is your organisation WTF about WFH?
Working from Home (WFH) is here to stay. How is your organisation responding to that? Leafing through the FT in the summer sunshine this weekend we came across an article prompted by a dinner the author had recently been at with some leading CEOs in the US. To her...
How well do you understand your employees?
Recent research by McKinsey shows that understanding your employees could be the key to turning attrition into attraction. The great resignation in the form of increased employee attrition continues to be a challenge for organisations to deal with. A recent survey...
Insight and self awareness
One of the things I love the most about my work as a Transformational Coach is those times when ‘lightbulb’ moments occur within the coaching space. Experiencing a client making inner connections as insights about themselves emerge from their subconscious always...
Building happiness – Wellbeing in Dubai
When we first founded Cognomie a few years ago we were incredibly excited to make Dubai one of our first conference destinations. All of the founding team had worked in Dubai in various roles prior to launching Cognomie and all thrived on the energy of life in the...
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