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Create workplaces where genuine connections fuel growth and success. Whether you're sparking motivation, strengthening collaboration, or building dream teams, discover practical ways to nurture an environment where everyone thrives naturally.
Finding your work-life balance as a remote employee
More people than ever are working remotely and riding the waves of the work-from-home life. There are the highs (like increased productivity and reduced stress levels) and the lows (like feelings of loneliness and inconsistent communication).
Kat Boogaard
Want to keep your team more engaged and feeling appreciated? This is what you gotta do.
Good team culture and engaged employees aren’t just nice to have: a healthy, engaged team has proven links to a business’ profitability, productivity, retention rates, investment opportunities, attracting great employees, absenteeism and even health and safety. A company is only as good as the people in it, so it makes sense for entrepreneurs to invest in engaging their team from day one. Is your team in need of a little TLC? We’ve collated the best advice on how to make them feel appreciated:
Vivienne Egan
Key leadership communication skills and how to improve them
Why do employees quit? Is it because tasks and responsibilities don’t live up to their expectations? Because they’re surrounded by gossipy or unsupportive coworkers? Or is it because the coffee in the break room is really that bad?
Amy Rigby
How to overcome the most common barriers to communication
You've heard the “communication is key ” cliché, haven't you? There's a reason that sentiment is often repeated. It's true.
Marlee
How Emma and Kelly of Shop You are talking their way to success
It might come as a surprise, but 65% of startups fail due to co-founder conflict. That’s higher than the divorce rate in the United States.
Lakshmi Singh
Should you move back to employee life?
We live in the age of the entrepreneur, where people like Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson are idolized, studied and endlessly copied. Many dream of becoming an entrepreneur, and it’s easy to see why: it allows you to chase your dreams, to build something from the ground up, and maybe – just maybe – change the world and make a lot of money doing it.
Vivienne Egan
A framework for giving and receiving feedback gracefully
Why is regularly giving and receiving feedback in the workplace so crucial? Because it's virtually impossible to escape having, or being subjected to, personal bias! Everyone has their internal and very unique views of the world around them. These opinions get formed by our upbringing, education, beliefs, social circumstances, values, etc. Biases can be conscious or unconscious, but we rarely openly express them.
Bev Campling
What to do when you feel overwhelmed at work
Meeting requests keep piling up, push notifications constantly flash across your screen and despite the extra hours you’ve been putting in—it feels like you’re not making a dent in your projects. If this sounds familiar, it’s no wonder you’re feeling overwhelmed at work.
Amy Rigby
International Women's Day: Celebrating the female change-makers
Let’s just clear up one small thing before we proceed: we definitely don’t need to wait for a special day on the global calendar to celebrate awesome women. As a business, F4S is all about celebrating the uniqueness of every individual, which means we are privileged to have met tonnes of incredible women in our own journey - we’d need a whole year of International Women’s Days if we had to wait to talk about them all!
Catie McHugh
The link between leadership and culture
You can’t build company culture from scratch. It’s an asset built over time, by values and behaviors percolating down through the entire organization. No matter how many fancy PowerPoints you make or catchy slogans you paint on the office walls, it simply can’t be forced.
Michael Metcalf
Entrepreneurs: how to reduce workplace stress and thrive
Working as your own boss, creating the perfect schedule, following a dream of your own; what could possibly go wrong?
Anna Hume
What is leadership coaching?
If you’re toying with the idea of leadership coaching, consider these stats from the Institute of Coaching: 80% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence and 70% benefit from improved work performance, relationships and improved communication.
Bev Campling