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Workplace wins: How to improve engagement

In 2024 global employee engagement fell from 23% to 21% - a drop equal to that of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Poor management - by people who are nearly always untrained and unsupported - is the greatest barrier to better employee engagement.

All over the world failures of leadership and management are making people unhappy and ill.

What you can do now:

If any of this resonates, why not book a free call and let’s talk: I work with managers, leaders and everyone who is managed or led.

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Dignity, Burnout, Anxiety, Coaching, Exhaustion, Stress Annabel Smith Dignity, Burnout, Anxiety, Coaching, Exhaustion, Stress Annabel Smith

Professor Connor Gearty’s legacy of dignity

Last week the world lost a brilliant and inspirational human rights academic, barrister and author. : Professor Connor Gearty.

For one brief year he was my tutor. I remember his charisma, his kindness, his humour, his red socks... and what he told us in our first lecture about what 'Human Rights' means: Dignity.

I can't fight great, global injustices - although I daily thank and celebrate those who do. What I can do is help you get your dignity back if your work has taken it away from you. I can help you see that it's not you; that you're not stupid, not wrong and you're not broken.

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