Kyle Brade-Waring

You know the drill. The team piles into a minibus for an afternoon of go-karting, escape rooms, or building rafts. There's laughter, some mild competition, maybe a cheeky pint afterwards. Everyone agrees it was "good for morale." Then Monday arrives. The same communication issues resurface. The same personalities clash. The temporary good feeling evaporates faster than the team WhatsApp group dies. Here's the uncomfortable truth: 82% of UK employees want more team building, yet research shows...

Your well-intentioned efforts to motivate your team might be making things worse. One-size-fits-all strategies, from team-building days to company-wide incentives, often create more disengagement than they solve because they ignore a fundamental truth: motivation is personal.

Most of us don’t set out to become managers. We set out to be great accountants, marketers, engineers, or creatives. Yet one day, success...