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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 the rest of the year?
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...
Robin Cartwright – Why I’m investing in Cognomie
Hello, I’m Robin Cartwright. I’m a Cognomie coach. I wanted to share a little about my story, and why I’m investing in Cognomie, because I want to encourage you to do the same. Bear with me, this isn’t a hard sell, but I do think it is an opportunity. A little...
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...
Wellbeing at Work UK Summit 2021 – Key themes
We’re back feeling energised and inspired after a week spent with our fellow delegates at the Wellbeing at Work Summit. We felt very privileged to be in the company of industry leaders practically engaging with some of the real challenges faced by all of us as we...
Cognomie launches crowdfund to power global growth into Mental Fitness market
Cognomie has today, launched a crowdfunding campaign to drive our next phase of rapid growth into the global wellbeing market, estimated at over $120bn. We’re delighted to be partnering with Crowdcube on this and expect to go into overfunding quickly. To invest in...
Wellbeing at Work UK Summit
This week the team at Cognomie are attending and participating in the Wellbeing at Work Summit, UK. It’s been unprecedented ground for many sectors, across the global, over the 18 months, from which lots of experience has been gained and new approaches developed,...
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...
CASE STUDY – Empowering women across an organisation
The Client - A global, trade and logistics organisation based in the United Arab Emirates
Are you a sleep leader?
As leaders of our own start up business we do our best to model the behaviours we want to be a part of the culture of our business. As a business built around a vision of strengthening Mental Fitness for more and more people around the world we aim to be role...
Cultivating optimism
Optimism is a vital part of our Mental Fitness. In the words of a recent academic study: “Optimism may significantly influence mental and physical well-being by the promotion of a healthy lifestyle as well as by adaptive behaviours and cognitive responses,...
How can you create a purpose led organisation?
Is your organisation driven by a clear sense of purpose? Organisations that hold a clear sense of purpose have a two fold benefit over their competition, improving performance, motivation and retention in their workforces; at the same time as making them more...
The who, where and why of becoming more resilient
What are your sources of resilience? How many challenges have you faced as an individual in the last week, month, year, decade or lifetime? Challenge can be negative or traumatic. Or it can be something that shapes us and help us grow. The difference can be down to...
The Equity Opportunity – what this means for women, wellbeing and work
Last month, Cognomie launched The Equity Opportunity - Women, Wellbeing & Work, a new white paper that interrogates the state of play of the female experience in today’s workplace. As a business, Cognomie has always been deeply committed to how we support...
A specific youth coaching strategy is good for the bottom line
In today’s business landscape, organisations are constantly striving to achieve sustainable growth and profitability, while simultaneously making sure they are looking after their employees' welfare. Coaching for young employees is generally not on the priority...
Coaching and leadership development in the NHS
NHS commissions Cognomie to provide 1:1 coaching support to Primary Care leaders Our strategic role with the NHS There is a national focus on supporting Primary Care leaders with personal development/ personal leadership within the NHS. Many Primary Care leaders...
The Equity Opportunity – setting an equity strategy for change
Welcome back to The Equity Opportunity series – a set of posts unpacking the key findings of our recent white paper. In this second blog, we look at the starting point for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategies. How can organisations ensure their...
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