by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 26, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Hiring Staff & HR, Workplace Culture
Corporate Psychopaths The real-life corporate psychopath isn’t the over-the-top caricature of a masked, axe-wielding maniac chasing his victims down a dark alley. At the same time he’s also not the more measured villain like the yuppie investment banker in the...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Sep 3, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Hiring Staff & HR, Leaders & Executives , Mental Health, Workplace Culture
Psychological Safety Should Not be an Afterthought: What it is, Why it Matters In a March 2021 New York Times article, writer Ruchika Tulshyan defined psychological safety as “the belief that you can take risks and put forward ideas without facing ridicule or...
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 | 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 | 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...
