All Louise Rodgers articles
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Opinion
The Coach: How do we deal with bereavement at work?
Experiences with grief highlight the need for workplaces to improve their support for bereavement, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: Are you leading your team, or just managing them?
Louise Rodgers explores the concept of how becoming a “design coach” can help deliver more effective management and leadership
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The Coach: How to get the recognition you deserve, without being seen as a ‘show-off’
A social and workplace culture that has historically encouraged modesty can also prevent us from getting noticed, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
Do you want, or need to be, liked?
Avoiding being a ‘people pleaser’ is often critical to becoming an effective manager, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
How to address the emotional fallout of redundancy
Dealing with redundancy requires its own set of skills, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
In praise of slow working
We can all play our part in promoting a pace of work that promotes true wellbeing, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
Is architecture a 'greedy' profession?
‘Greedy’ professions demand more time over and above what might otherwise be expected, and contribute towards the gender pay gap, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: To be, or not to be, flat
‘Flat’ office structures are often anything but equal, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: The ‘trust glue’ and how to use it
We know that trust helps builds relationships and strong teams, but how do we foster this special ‘glue’ that binds us, asks Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: The state of flow and how to find it
Creating the time and space to get fully “in the zone” can benefit our professional lives and help make us happier, writes Louise Rodgers
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The Coach: Tapping into your gut instincts could help you bring your ‘whole self’ to work
Many of us struggle to tap into instinctual and more “heart-focused” ways of thinking in the workplace. By yielding more to our emotional selves we may improve the quality of working relationships, writes Louise Rodgers.
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Opinion
The Coach: If we want real diversity, then we need to start investing in it
To avoid tokenism in the workplace we need to embrace a more profound understanding of what inclusivity means, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: The stories we tell ourselves
The narratives we create about ourselves can motivate us, but also sometimes hold us back, writes Louise Rodgers
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Opinion
The Coach: How the light gets in – in praise of imperfection
Perfectionists can achieve great things but they can also demotivate their teams and create cycles of negativity, writes Louise Rodgers