Why knowing is easy, doing is harder.

Lucy and I chat about when and how to try and amicably settle.

It sounds right, it feels like good data, but can it be relied upon?

There's nothing better than a good start, or more specifically, there's nothing worse than a bad start.

Everyone wants autonomy in their job, managers want confidence in their reports, but we rarely openly discuss this. So how are these agreements reached?

Managers can jump in- fix, solve, answer, take over. But when?

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Listening is such an important skill, we need to do more on this.

I look at the cognitive bias that makes us instinctively see a bigger number as better, even when it's real value hasn't improved. For HR professionals, understanding this can help explain why the same pay increase can be received very differently depending on inflation and the cost of living.