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Neela Ahmed

Jan 12
3 min

How to make 2023 the year of the Team

First, why the focus on teams? Quite simply - top performing teams outperform poorly performing teams by 2.5x! So if you’re planning for a stellar 2023, then focusing on building a high performance team will ensure you can all reach the stars. We use the following research-backed themes to structure our thinking about how to build performance. Each one of them is guaranteed to move you forwards as a team. But there are 9 in total and that’s too many for you to try to cover si

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The team’s strengths can be YOUR superpower

Rebecca Campbell

Dec 15, 2022
2 min

The team’s strengths can be YOUR superpower

Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to recognise the strengths of someone else than it is to recognise your own? We often find it difficult to notice our own strengths, it is easy to downplay, and we don't give them enough credit because it comes easily to us. Whilst learning and utilising our strengths is important to development, the not-so-obvious truth is that learning your teams’ strengths can be an even greater superpower. There's something even more powerful ab

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Mark Loftus

Dec 8, 2022
3 min

How to create a culture of leadership

Can everyone be a leader? The word ‘leader’ for most people brings to mind those in positions at the top levels of an organisation. The idea of viewing everyone as having a leadership contribution to make can come across as idealistic and unrealistic. It instinctively seems at odds with the reality of how organisations are structured. Yet at its simplest level, leadership is a choice. We are leading every time we make a decision on behalf of our team, push a conversation in a

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Mark Loftus

Dec 1, 2022
2 min

Spot the leader?

Can you spot the leader in a team? Leadership involves creating, or discovering, meaning and purpose and then helping people connect productively to this purpose. But… Leaders also inspire leadership from others. NPR, the US radio station, has a wonderful series of concerts available as YouTube videos. The ‘Tiny Desk’ concerts involve musicians crowding into a corner of the NPR studio and recording a 15 minute live set. They have featured everyone from Ed Sheeran to Yo-Yo Ma.

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What can the ‘3 sisters’ teach us about inclusion?

Mark Loftus

Nov 25, 2022
2 min

What can the ‘3 sisters’ teach us about inclusion?

How diverse is your team? Do you embrace differences? What the 3 Sisters can teach us about inclusion.

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Feeling included can increase job performance by 56%

Rebecca Campbell

Nov 17, 2022
2 min

Feeling included can increase job performance by 56%

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Rebecca Campbell

Nov 7, 2022
5 min

Are you Mentally Fatigued?

Are you mentally fatigued? Here are Rebecca Campbell's thoughts on mental fatigue and managing your mental energy levels.

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Clare Cohen

Oct 31, 2022
3 min

Are we programmed for fear?

Happy Halloween folks! It’s that spooky time of year again & here at Jyre we’re looking at fear itself. What’s so bad about a bit of fear?

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What can we learn from 1970’s Big Science?

Mark Loftus

Sep 28, 2022
2 min

What can we learn from 1970’s Big Science?

Collaborating Remotely The 1970's The world of big science in the 1970’s faced a challenge. Scientists knew that they would need ever larger and more powerful particle accelerators in order to explore the fundamental nature of the universe. Yet how to enable research teams around the globe to get access to these new, billion dollar machines? And how to run experiments collaboratively when the scientists were spread across the globe and across time-zones? The history of how sc

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Rebecca Campbell

Sep 21, 2022
3 min

What's the deal with quiet quitting?

Get to know the triggers, affects & how you can help. Find out what's the deal with quiet quitting.

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3 things that will make you a better leader

Mark Loftus

Sep 7, 2022
2 min

3 things that will make you a better leader

Are you a leader? You might not think about yourself as a leader, but Jyre wants to challenge this thinking. Our simple idea is that everybody leads at different times in their lives and in different situations. And we believe that life does significantly improve for people who become better leaders and for those they lead: work life, home life. social life, maybe even your love life. When we, and the people around us lead well, magic happens. We feel more confident, connecte

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5 essential practices for leading your new team

Rebecca Campbell

Aug 31, 2022
3 min

5 essential practices for leading your new team

Teams are complex systems comprising individuals with their own unique skills, perspectives, desires and ways of working. Whilst leading any team has its fair share of ups and downs, new teams have the challenge of establishing a shared understanding of team goals, disciplines, different characters and ways of working. There are five things it is important to know about leading a new team that can help lay the groundwork for effectiveness in the future. Even if you are an est

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Neela Ahmed

Aug 24, 2022
3 min

Improving team effectiveness

Do you have ambitious goals for your team? Are you concerned that these goals may be a little too stretching or even out of reach? Will your individual development plans for team members be enough to bring the whole team up to where they need to be? If you can relate to these inquiries, then Aristotle’s wisdom that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” may ring true for you. So what, besides working on each person’s growth individually, can be done to bring about

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Mark Loftus

Aug 17, 2022
3 min

Leading high performance teams - Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, we established that the style of leadership shown by a team leader has a big impact on its performance. Now in Part 2, we dive a little deeper. We’ve identified that team leaders need to really take the lead, and also that the kind of leadership shown by the team leader matters. Let’s dive a little deeper into what the leader needs to do, and what outcome the leader should be aiming for. Again, we’ll be writing more about both of these in upcoming p

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