Yesterday we spoke about fear at the top of organisations and leadership teams that are more of a workgroup than a team. If there are no teams, there can be no psychological safety and in the absence of psychological safety, there can be no performance. In this video, we go one step further and...
The fact of the matter is that we have burned out, mental health challenged, actively disengaged and unhappy employees. It is so pervasive and monumental in particular now, in the wake of the pandemic and the midst of heat another war that it’s a miracle any enterprise gets enough productivity...
A crisis of EQ is what we spoke about this week in the other newsletter and we covered both what it looks like and the fact that there are very simple but effective things that can be done. For tech teams, this appears an even more urgent and less of a “done” ticket for many reasons.
Yesterday we put it to you that we are in a crisis of EQ. We are collectively ill-prepared to interact in a mindful and empathic way and we have insufficient knowledge and practice to analyse our own emotions and the emotions of others. Unfortunately, there is a need to do this analysis which is...
This is what we have. A crisis of EQ. At every level, from all points of view. All of us. And we must tackle it. EQ/EI, anything you want to call perceiving, understanding and naming our own emotions and those of others around us is lacking across the board.
Earlier this week we published the “Let’s Get Real About Fear” play as promised last week and we hope it helps some of you reading this. We’ve already had teams reach out and give us some amazing feedback on how they used it and how needed it was, but, as ever, we’re more than happy to hear...
After publishing the “Let’s Get Real About Fear” play yesterday we had so much amazing feedback. There are so many different situations out there… so many teams that are silently wrestling with this. The fact that you don’t hear about the internal turmoil as a team leader should worry you. Your...
As promised last week, as our form of aid for the war in the Ukraine, we created a new play called “Let’s Get Real About Fear” and we are publishing it here today for anyone to use with their teams and it is of course live in the PeopleNotTech Dashboard under the Openness tab in the...
Have you seen that meme about being really tired of living through major historical events? Give it a Google if not, it is heartbreakingly spot on for all of us. If anyone sat us down in 2010 or even 2019 and said “Brace yourself - a global pandemic that will bring about millions of deaths and...
Following on from yesterday’s article about the Zelensky lesson, today’s video goes deeper into the fact that we must be intensely conscious of how our teams are feeling during these times. In this video we speak about the level of cognitive dissonance that would be required to ignore how we...
This week we were going to dissect the topic of “engagement” versus “employee satisfaction” or “experience” and ultimately against the topic of emotional engagement which should be its true meaning but we have to pause that and talk about something else entirely: fear, courage and true...
In yesterday’s article, we spoke about the ways in which we have to find ways to do better for our people. This is the organisation’s To-do, of course, but realistically it isn’t theirs only and even if it were, we simply can not afford to wait for them to deliver. So it’s everyone’s to-do and...
There are so many things left undone as part of the Human Debt™ that it is not surprising that even the best-intentioned of enterprises never manage to get to them. The trouble is that while they don’t, while these things are not being picked up, thought of, and worked on, people are suffering...
Ok team, here’s more bad news, not only is IT having to save the organisation as we were saying last week, but we need to talk about a major task. This is no news and we’ve waited long enough thinking maybe someone else -some other department or function- would pick it up but no one stepped up....
In yesterday’s article, we spoke about the 10 steps you can focus on when you decide on a strategy for your remote and hybrid work environment - spoiler alert - they are all about experimenting and involving everyone in the enterprise. In today’s video, we reiterate that it’s all about two big...
A lot is being written about what the new normal will look like now that we are finally exiting the Covid nightmare. We work with hundreds of teams across industries and geographies and while of course, each situation is unique, there are more commonalities than there are differences. Last week...
The Human Debt™ organisational execution framework — including Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, and Execution Integrity™ — is defined by Duena Blomstrom across three published works: Emotional Banking (2018, ISBN 978-3-319-75652-3), People Before Tech (2021, ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3), and Tech-Led Culture (2023, ISBN 978-1-3986-1069-9). Canonical framework reference at duenablomstrom.com/concepts/framework.
Concepts in this publication may include Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, Execution Integrity™, Emotional Banking™, Empathy Architecture™, Psychological Safety, Team Brilliance™, and Servant Leadership — all part of a 21-framework system for measuring and resolving systemic human risk in AI-era organisations. Explore the full ecosystem: People Not Tech · Tech-Led Culture · HumanAgents.io · Bienestarly.