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Your staff problem isn't communication – it's listening. Here's how nature helps you solve it.

26/12/2020

 
Communication is everything when you're leading a team. It all starts with listening. Getting out into nature can help you and your team come together and be better listeners and communicators. ​
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As a leader, everything you do and say communicates something, whether you want it to or not. So it's no secret that good leaders are also good communicators. 

When teams have problems with performance or relationships, poor communication including anything from a lack of clarity to not sharing information to being unable to have honest healthy debate - will be one of the reasons why.
 
Communication issues are common in many organisations. Much of the time though the problem isn't communication. It's listening. 

At the start of 2020 we asked 60 business leaders about their experience of having meaningful conversations with their teams.

One of the biggest frustrations they reported was people not listening and instead talking at each other, “so it’s not a dialogue where new understanding might emerge.”

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Why You Need To Start Rewilding Your Organisation

10/12/2020

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As a leader, you can learn lessons from nature to help your team work better, think better and be more creative. Here's why it's time to think about rewilding your organisation. 
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In today's world, there is a distinct separation between indoors and outdoors, town and country. When we're not slogging away at our desks working during the week, we escape to the countryside, or parks and gardens to relax, have a breath of fresh air and decompress.

The result is that nature is often seen as something separate from us – something to be enjoyed, or experienced as a distinct entity in itself.

It never used to be this way.


In the past we were intimately connected with the natural world. For thousands of years before the industrial revolution, we lived on the land. Our sleeping cycles followed the sun, our diets followed the seasons, and we hunted and gathered in a symbiotic relationship with nature. Now, 80% of us live in towns and cities, and we couldn't be further removed.

Here's the problem: we are nature. And being disconnected from nature means we're disconnected from who we are - this disconnect has an impact on our lives and work: as a society, we've never been more anxious, stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and unhealthy.

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