Upcoming Workshop

Human Instincts in the Workplace

A strange thing happened to Homo sapiens only 250 years ago: we changed our habitat. With the Industrial Revolution, we changed from being hunter-gatherers and villagers and moved into offices and factories.
This workshop explains how the instincts that served humans on the savannah show themselves in workplaces and how we can use nature to build successful organisations and develop effective leaders.
The obstacles to high-performance in organisations are uncannily similar from one organisation to another. Irrespective of their industry or their country, most leaders say: “In our organisation:
• “We see a lot of silo behaviour and internal rivalry”
• “Our managers find it hard to give negative feedback”
• “Change is difficult to manage and often resisted”
• “The gossip grapevine is incredibly effective”
• “Our performance appraisal system is not working as it should.”
Given that these experiences and many more are common to most organisations then they are not explainable at the organisational level. They can only be explained by a common factor—we all employ humans! Likewise, the solutions to these common issues will not be found at the organisational level. They can only be solved if we understand the human condition that both explain the behaviours and provides the solutions.