Langley Group’s Positive Goals for 2018
Cultivating and sustaining positive emotions, positive relationships, meaning and engagement in your life all help to support you in valuing, enjoying and achieving your goals.
Nine Principles for Co-Creating Culture Change
How do you help organisations achieve positive, rapid and sustainable change? Traditionally change in organisations has been a top-down, linear, compliance process; first designed and then implemented. In today’s fast paced and complex world this takes too long and is too hard. People resist the pressure. Instead we need change that is whole-system owned and [...]
How to Encourage More Diversity on Boards
The demand for diversity on boards is growing – we want more women, younger people, and a greater diversity of culture and thinking at the top. […]
New White Paper: Diversity in the Boardroom
The demand for diversity on boards is growing – we want more women, younger people, and a greater diversity of thinking at the top. The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is calling for all boards to ensure that 30 per cent of their directors are females, urging ASX 200 companies to meet this target [...]
The neuroscience of change in organisations: Takeouts from the HR Summit 2014
Many organisations are engaging in wide-scale change initiatives, and have been for several years. […]
Ten tips to be happy at work
There are many simple and free ways make workplaces happier places to be and, as a result, more productive. Sue Langley shares top tips to to be happy at work and ensure your business is nurturing its people, in a Sydney Morning Herald article. These include knowing your strengths and the strengths of your [...]
Why kindness is good for business
Kindness is viral. In a world where people are increasingly connected across digital networks, and becoming less connected in workplaces and communities, acts of kindness have enormous power to motivate and inspire others. Sharing these stories helps us identify what is important and meaningful and expand it. […]
Emotional intelligence: Why does it matter?
“We cannot check our emotions at the door because emotion and thought are linked—they cannot, and should not, be separated.”[1] David Caruso. […]
Willpower: Five strategies for building new habits and resisting temptation
Exerting willpower to build new habits or resist temptation often seems like too much hard work. […]
Gratitude: How to add to your happiness quota with this simple practice
Affirming our gratitude increases our positive emotions, which helps to banish the negatives. The more we practice reflecting on the things we are grateful for, the more we broaden our thinking and build our emotional resources. Acknowledging—and sharing—moments of gratitude is a powerful practice for staying positive, energised and resilient. Martin Seligman, a leader in [...]