by Amy | Aug 3, 2026 | COMMUNIC8, Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
Ask any leadership team in FE what’s holding their culture back and nine times out of ten, someone in the room will say “communication.” We need better communication. More cascade meetings. A tighter newsletter. A clearer intranet.I’ve sat in...
by Amy | Jul 9, 2026 | Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours
For ten years, I heard the same word used to describe the organisation I worked for: FAMILY. It was in speeches, induction packs, leaving cards, the language leaders reached for whenever they wanted people to give more than the job required. I have a family of my own....
by Amy | Jul 8, 2026 | Culture by Design, EVALU8, Leadership Behaviours
Hear me out: you don’t actually know what your culture is like This is an opinion. Not a study. Not a stat. Just something I’ve been chewing on after enough years in enough organisations to trust my own pattern-spotting over most surveys I’ve seen....
by Amy | Jun 9, 2026 | CULTIV8, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
The last piece I wrote was about what gets ignored — and how the things leaders walk past quietly become the culture. A few of you got in touch after reading it. The question that kept coming back, in slightly different words each time, was this: Right. So what does...
by Amy | Jun 9, 2026 | COMMUNIC8
There are eight conversations that decide whether your culture is healthy. Most leaders are avoiding at least three of them right now. I don’t mean that as a criticism. I mean it as a reality. I’ve sat in the chair. I’ve been the one with the open...
