Getting organised makes work better. Set yourself, your teams and your organisation up effectively and productivity soars, stress and anxiety are diminished and engagement is high. Common challenges I am overwhelmed by email and can’t…
Organisations are complex entities. They form self reinforcing patterns that dictate the way people do things. When the resulting behaviours are unhelpful, people lose trust, they retreat, they stop talking, stop sharing, they resist anything…
Good thinking is necessary for innovation. Successful innovation leads to growth. But it does not happen on its own. It requires sound strategy, helpful processes the right skills and a creative culture. Get it right…
We like to try things out, do things we are familiar with differently, collaborate with others to get their thoughts. We want to make our work better. So we run experiments. Sometimes we end up…
To redefine “Work”, we need to learn, observe and find out about the way people and organisations work. Over the past 4 years, we’ve done a lot of listening, in fact we’ve done more listening than talking….
We were asked to contribute to the Designing your day/Smarter Everyday programme from Nokia@Work. It fits in very well with what we do: at People Who Do we spend our time learning and understanding why work sucks for many people, discovering why it is magic for others and inventing ways to make it better for everyone.
We were invited to talk about productivity at a Channel 4 departmental meeting. We used it as an opportunity to launch some experiments in better ways of working.
On Friday the 26th October we took part in TEDxBrighton, it’s theme, the generation gap. Over the course of the day, attendees took part in our playful experiments, sharing their experiences on postcards and sticking them on our wall in the Ideas Lab at The Dome.
Channel 4, UBM, Nokia, Story Things, Kings College, Somerset House, Dragonfly Film and Television, Guildhall School of Music, Bristol Media, Clearleft, Create Internet, Propellernet, Red Quadrant, Digicave, RCS, Pure 360 and University of Brighton.
~ Albert Einstein“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
If you are interested in making work better, please join us on a journey that starts with learning skills, explores how you think and can end in re-engineering what you do. The journey lasts as long - and goes as far - as you'd like it to.