Work-life balance and employee well-being are systems issues

The potential is high for hybrid working to enable people to have more fulfilled, more productive lives replete with accomplishments and fulfilment in terms of both work and personal life. The practice frequently misses the mark. Commuting may have been a pain, but it provided valuable mental down time. Working from home can easily become working longer and not being able to switch off. Without rigorous planning and discipline, we can end up with less exercise and more stress.

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The most common mistakes in mentoring programmes

Over four decades, I have encountered thousands of mentoring programmes in dozens of countries. Many of them deliver superb results for all their stakeholders. Other fizzle out and leave no lasting legacy. The mentoring programme standards from the EMCC were introduced nearly 20 years ago and have been periodically updated. They provided the basis for...

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What did you learn about yourself this week?

Building the habit of reflection isn’t easy. Yet, some questions can give a much-needed prompt. Ask someone what they earned this week and they can usually remember something. Yet ask what they learned about themselves requires a much deeper level of introspection.

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What do executives think are the benefits of team coaching?

Manfred Kets de Vries, at INSEAD, the French business school, is a veteran of team coaching and an authority on the psychology of both coaching and group dynamics. His latest book, The Path to Individual and Organizational Transformation (Palgrave, 2025) contains many nuggets, but I was particularly struck by a list of 25 key benefits that executive teams perceive from team coaching. These range from identifying hidden conflict to clarifying roles and deeper understanding of team challenges, to aligning team norms with an accountability structure. It’s a valuable checklist to apply when engaging with a team, to answer the question: “What would you like team coaching to do for you as a team?”

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The dangers of relying on an AI to write an article

AIs like Gemini or ChatGPT can be very helpful in speeding up research. I’ve always been careful to check out any references with another source, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate and where possible go beyond the abstract to evaluate the whole paper. Most of the time, I find that the work is genuine and that I can extract what I need from the article text. But not all the time.

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