Blog tag: employee wellbeing

Are you working in an organisation with a culture that expects 100% performance? Where delivery is seen as everything – often at the expense of quality, results and employee wellbeing? We think there’s a better way to achieve improved and sustainable performance. To perform better you need to focus on…

In their latest book, ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ Monkey Puzzle Co-founders Karen Meager and John McLachlan explore how elite sportspeople and their teams manifest sustainable performance – and what leaders and organisations can learn from their strategies. As they discovered, the answer isn’t to work harder or faster. The secret is…

Are you a leader who wants a high performing team? Perhaps you’ve started the year wanting to bring some fresh momentum to the way things are done. You know your people work hard, but if you could focus them on the really important objectives, you’d all achieve so much more.…

For your organisation to be successful, your people need to perform at their best. And yet many employees are on a slippery slope to exhaustion, with burnout at record levels. As many of us strive to do our best to deliver, the problems begin when we don’t allow ourselves the…

360 degree feedback is a popular way for people to receive a broad range of feedback. It can also offer insight into how a team thinks their leader is performing and reveal team cohesion. There’s value in the process, but it’s far from perfect. There’s no shortage of new dashboards…

Although we can’t quite believe where the time has gone, Monkey Puzzle is 15 years old this month. Much has changed in the world of learning and development, if not the world itself. In the same year we launched in 2007, a young senator called Barack Obama was announcing his…

As we close another turbulent year in the world of work, it is increasingly clear that the biggest challenge for organisations next year will be retaining their exceptional people. We started to read about the ‘great resignation’ in the summer with research from Microsoft predicting that up to 40% of…

Burnout has been one of the most talked about organisational topics throughout the pandemic. As business and government press for a return to office life, the organisations that stand the best chance of successfully managing burnout will be those that recognise what has happened to their people while they’ve been…

The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically altered the blog content covered by Monkey Puzzle across 2020. Many of our additional articles addressed the impact of the virus on the mental health of the workforce, and with good reason. It affected everyone, at all levels, both inside and outside of work. With the…

Coaching is such a broadly used term it’s hard for people selecting coaching or experiencing coaching to know what to look for – or for some to understand why they are receiving it. Indeed, when we are training coaches, they often report experiencing mixed reactions from the people they are…