by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jun 11, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Leaders & Executives
In the previous blog What’s Your Leadership Style? Part One, I talked about five major styles of leadership: Autocratic Democratic/Participative Transformational Delegative Transactional We looked at Autocratic and its opposite approach, Democratic/Participative...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | May 28, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Leaders & Executives
When it comes to leadership styles, which one is right for you? Each style has its own benefits and drawbacks, so if you’re in a position of leadership it’s important to figure out which one will work best for you and your organization or business. It...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | May 14, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Recent Graduates
With the Turnover Tsunami creating an employee-driven job market, employers in all sectors are facing a challenge in identifying and attracting qualified new candidates. Despite the challenge, it doesn’t mean employers want to lower their standards. Just because...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Apr 30, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
Work-life balance: is it REALLY a thing? I think most of us want to think so, but is it really achievable? Or is it just a catchy buzzword, and something we tell ourselves we need in order to be happy? I continue to reflect on the “Big Quit” or the “Great Resignation”...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Apr 16, 2022 | blog, Hiring Staff & HR, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
Opinions, beliefs, and values swirl around like a nasty tornado in this global pandemic with no sign of cooling down. I’m sure you’ve noticed there is no shortage of social media rows; heated exchanges between strangers, friends, coworkers and yes even family have...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Apr 2, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
If the events of the past couple of years have inspired you to reevaluate your priorities and what you want out of life, you’re not alone! I’ve written about the Big Quit – also known as the Big Resignation or the Turnover Tsunami – a number of times over the last...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 19, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Leaders & Executives
A while back, a client told me about a training program she had attended about “executive presence” and how its tone-deaf message badly missed the mark. The narrow-minded, toxic key message centred on the idea that there is a specific and correct way to be an...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 5, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Mature Professionals , Recent Graduates
The modern workplace requires greater soft skills and the ability to build interpersonal relationships – especially in remote or hybrid environments. It’s not easy to integrate multigenerational employees into productive teams. Plus, there are other types of diversity...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 19, 2022 | blog, Leaders & Executives , Workplace Culture
Long before the pandemic became a global reality, I wrote about the benefits of working from home never realizing how many workers would pivot to pyjama laptop meetings in a makeshift office in their kitchen. In this two-part series, I discussed the evolving concept...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 5, 2022 | blog, Diversity & Inclusion, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
Most people would agree that the modern workplace is complicated – for leaders and employees. The rapid shift to remote and hybrid work, the challenges associated with creating multigenerational and inclusive workplace cultures, technological changes, and the...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jan 22, 2022 | blog, Bullying & Harassment , Leaders & Executives , Workplace Culture
Like so many others, I’ve discovered the Apple+ show Ted Lasso, in which Jason Sudekis plays a successful American college football coach from Wichita, Kansas who moves to the UK to coach professional soccer (aka the sport known as football outside of North America)....
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jan 8, 2022 | blog, Diversity & Inclusion, Hiring Staff & HR, Leaders & Executives , Workplace Culture
It’s the time of year for “best of” lists and articles as we recount memorable moments and events of the past year, and it’s no different for me. May I present my five most-read blog posts from 2021! Nearly two years after the strange, disorienting events of 2020...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Dec 11, 2021 | blog, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
Stress goes hand in hand with much of what we do every day. For the most part, we’re able to handle the stress and keep it under control. Then we get up the next day and do it over again. As acknowledged in Part One of this two-part series on burnout, we all have...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 27, 2021 | blog, Bullying & Harassment , Mental Health
Stress isn’t always a bad thing. Stress can help us to focus and prioritize; it can force us to tackle what needs to be done. Sometimes a little pressure and anxiety can really motivate us to take action. But prolonged stress — constant, chronic pressure and anxiety...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 20, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Diversity & Inclusion, Hiring Staff & HR, Workplace Culture
I just celebrated my ninth anniversary of starting I/O Advisory Services. How the time has flown by. I’ve experienced many of the ups and downs that business owners face, and also many, many surprises along the way. And I don’t regret it for a minute! I’ve...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 13, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
In Parts One and Two of this blog series, I wrote about how conflict avoidance seems to be the most common—but also the most ineffective—strategy for handling difficult conversations. Not only is conflict avoidance an ineffective strategy, but putting off difficult...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Oct 30, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
Let’s face it. Some amount of conflict is part of every workplace. In Part One of this three-part blog series on difficult conversations I wrote about how, despite so much effort by companies to facilitate communication and openness in the workplace, important yet...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Oct 16, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
Most people will do almost anything to avoid a difficult conversation; especially in the workplace. This is so much so that many would rather quit their job than address awkward issues with colleagues or their boss. Despite so much effort by companies to facilitate...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Oct 2, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Mental Health
Pandemic Flux: Why Many of Us Are Rethinking … Everything Recently, I have been reflecting on the “Big Quit” that seems to be happening across many workplaces and documented in countless articles. Some of those reflections are described in my recent two-part blog on...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Sep 18, 2021 | blog, Diversity & Inclusion, Hiring Staff & HR, Workplace Culture
The Turnover Tsunami, Part 2: It’s Women Making the Biggest Waves In my last blog post, I told you about the great spike in job turnovers in the spring and summer of 2021 and the challenges of pandemic retention. Well, there is more to the story. A March 2021 U.S....
