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It’s been an exciting week at Consensio, as we ran an event with Ogilvy at the London HR Connection, called ‘Conflict Management with the Mad Men’ on Tuesday. Ross Bartlett, Head of Learning & Development at Ogilvy, one of the world’s largest international advertising agencies, spoke about his innovative management development programme, which is accredited by […]

According to researchers from Harvard Business School and Stanford University in the US, employees in stressful and demanding jobs are much more likely to suffer mental and physical illness. The research finds that job insecurity raises the odds of reporting poor health by approximately 50%, that high job demands increase the odds of having a […]

I was having coffee with an old client last week, an HR Director from the Rank Group. We hadn’t seen each other since I trained him and his colleagues to become accredited workplace mediators, and we were catching up on work and our kids. He posed an interesting question that I have been reflecting on […]

Amazon has hit the headlines. It is alleged that the most valuable retailer in the US has a management culture of “bruising” workplace practices. A recent New York Times article stated that Jeff Bezos, the founder, believes that “harmony is often overvalued in the workplace – that it can stifle honest critique and encourage praise […]

Welcome to our new and improved Consensio website, and first blog post. We are delighted to say that our website is now optimised for tablet and mobile devices, so you can access our content on the go. Launched in our 8th anniversary year, the website redesign reflects our workplace mediation and conflict management work and our […]