Flourishing People

Last week I was at a conference which included a case study workshop on risk.  Amongst other topics, we discussed if and should risk be avoided?  Is there an acceptable level of risk?  How do we manage risk?  Is there a general attitude in favour of risk aversion?  Does the current practice (and requirement) for [...]

There’s a general understanding that when people leave an organisation, they are actually leaving their manager.  Obviously there are exceptions to the rule and all sorts of reasons why people change jobs.  However good ‘people managers’ tend to retain good staff and bad managers tend to lose good staff.
So what makes the difference?  Can you [...]

How do you enable people to flourish, especially in the workplace?  That’s the aim of 3D HR as an organisation so it’s an important question for me.  I was at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology conference in April with the theme of flourishing communities and flourishing organisations so what follows are a few of [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word ‘prudence’?  It tends not to be the most inspiring of virtues – a bit sour and dull perhaps?  But in its original meaning, prudence is great!
The essence of prudence is practical wisdom. Now that sounds more interesting.  To be wise in a down-to-earth way, to [...]

Just before Christmas I took part in a workshop on Strengths.  It was not part of some crisis to regain the muscles of my youth -  this was about realising strengths, in myself and in others.
So much of our work life and possibly our home life as well is about dealing with weaknesses.  The appraisal [...]