As an employer, you probably find that maintaining an engaged and motivated workforce is a major challenge, especially if you operate with remote or frontline workers.

In these roles, work is often necessarily repetitive, and employees can lose sight of their goals, both professional and personal, leading to a decline in productivity and sense of purpose.

The Dream Academy offers you a unique and powerful solution to this issue, helping not only to re-energise your employees but also providing you with a workforce that is both happier and more committed…

It’s been quite month for the Men’s England Football team. Despite not playing to their full potential, they got to European Championship Final, last Sunday, and were beaten by best team in the tournament, Spain.

Since then, Gareth Southgate has resigned as the Manager of England Team. I think it’s fair to say that feedback about Gareth’s performance has been mixed. He, himself, declared that his goal was to win the tournament. Many believed that with the talent England had, they should have won it. It wasn’t to be.

So why did Gareth Southgate fail? Let’s look at it via an Emotional Intelligence Leadership Style lens…

I was working with a client yesterday who is a very experience marketeer and took a sabbatical for 6 months. Wanting to return to the work place, she has been busily interviewing. In the early days, she turned down a couple of offers as they won't quite right. And since then, things have not gone her way. She's got long way down line in the interview process in a number of opportunities but with no offers.

 Her own assessment was that she was coming across as “confused, waffly and a little bit desperate”. The antithesis of what she's like in reality. Understandably, she's lost her confidence.

 And this is a good example what happens when we become vulnerable due to a combination of small knock-backs. The “are you good enough” voice becomes louder in our heads. The self-doubt starts to eat away at our confidence, self-belief and self-esteem. It's in these moments that you forget how good you really are…

Achieving a healthy work-life balance has become one of the top priorities for employees, ranking second among the reasons people choose an employer, according to Randstad's 2024 employer brand research report.

Yet, despite its importance, only one in four employees feels their employer excels in this area. ..