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Do your teams feel safe enough to set stretch goals?

by Roger Longden | Mar 22, 2021

Culture, Goals

Google researchers have found that employees on teams with higher psychological safety are less likely to leave the company, more likely to be empowered by diverse ideas from their teammates, increase revenue, and rated as effective twice as often by executives. When individuals feel safe…

The benefits of OKR training

by Lawrence Walsh | Feb 26, 2021

Academy, Culture, OKRS

Enrolling in OKR training can help you to extract as much value as possible from your OKRs for many years to come. As the saying goes, nothing in life is worth having, or worth doing, unless you have to put in a whole load of…

Why a healthy workplace culture and behaviour is essential for growth

by Lawrence Walsh | Jan 04, 2021

Culture

Let’s start with the opposite end of the spectrum and explore how an unhealthy workplace culture impacts growth. What does a toxic workplace culture look like? Have you ever worked in a place where one of more of these factors was evident: People didn’t make…

Introducing Georgia Parker

by Roger Longden | Jun 29, 2020

Culture, Giant Watch, OKRS

We’re delighted to welcome Georgia Parker to team There Be Giants. Georgia joins us and will co-ordinate the TBG Culture Practice working with organisations to create a healthy culture. Working alongside the rest of the team Georgia will be helping to create cultures in which…

Creating a culture where OKRs can thrive

by Roger Longden | Nov 20, 2019

Culture, Event, OKRS

Imagine you’re a middle manager in a large multi-national business which has an engineering focus. In fact, the business is one of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world.  One day at work you receive a message from your CEO asking you to attend a…

To strive, to serve and not to yield

by Roger Longden | Aug 19, 2018

Culture, mindset, Motivation, Values

To strive, to serve and not to yield* Sounds like a military motto right?  Actually, it belongs to the Outward Bound Trust, an organisation who has, since 1941, helped over 1.2 million young people push beyond their inner limits through the use of the great…