COLIN ON CULTURE
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The storming dip
Why teams get worse before they get better
Walking before starting
How interviews reveal culture
10 signs you work in a culture of fear
How dread hides inside everyday behaviour
From worst to first
How one bank flipped their culture
Before the peak
Handy's Sigmoid Curve and when to change
People leave due to bad management
Why the skills gap goes untrained
The culture change accreditation trap
Why documentation alone won’t deliver change
Culture never stands still
Managing change when it’s needed most
Habit, not project
Strategy gets the attention whilst culture drifts
The last 12 months
The things that have shaped my year
You’re allowed to be rubbish
Bad days signal humanity, not failure
The silent meeting participant
How AI meeting recorders reduce honest conversation
The good kind of contagious
Why upbeat teams lift everyone around them
The heavy weight of a grudge
What workplace resentment says about you
Be more confident
Built through repetition and honest feedback
The hybrid apprenticeship gap
Who teaches your inexperienced staff the unwritten rules?
Post it for one person
Why sharing wins helps others beyond vanity metrics
Project failure isn’t a technical skills problem
What actually derails delivery teams
Switching off together
Why muting your phone alone rarely works
Thigmomorphogenesis
Why sheltering new managers sets them up to fail