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Communication

5 stories and 2 articles about communication - what is happening, and what to do about it.

• Health and Safety Executive · 5 days ago

  HSE urges employers to take action on work-related stress during Stress Awareness Week

  The regulator's message is not about wellbeing perks. It is that stress is a health and safety risk, and an employer assesses it the way it assesses any other: find the causes, ask the people affected, act. HSE still says many employers do not realise they must - and its six areas, from demands to change, are all things a manager shapes.

• Article

  How to give feedback: point it at the work, and ask for some back

  Feedback helps on average, yet in one large review 38% of the effects were negative. What the research says about why, and three things to do tomorrow.

• Article

  Job insecurity: what it does to a team, and what a manager can honestly say

  Job insecurity is linked to worse performance and health. What the research says, and what a manager can honestly say when they cannot promise anything.

• MIT Sloan Management Review · 9 days ago

  What Interruptions Say About Your Organizational Culture

  Who gets cut off, and who gets finished, is read by everyone in the room as a statement about whose ideas carry weight. The researchers found that subtle exclusion wears away people's sense of ownership and teaches them to hold back. It is rarely a policy problem, and nobody files a complaint about a sentence that was never allowed to end.

• Emergency Services Times · 27 August 2026

  With a focus on culture, staff and patients benefit from the WAST way in Wales

  Real work, and as interesting for what they refused as for what they built - no competency framework, just three principles teams read locally. One thing is missing, as it is from almost every culture programme: a number showing what changed.

• Mental Health First Aid England · 2 February 2026

  The cost of workplace silence: Nearly half of employees feel unsafe speaking up at work, new research reveals

  The last figure is the one for a board: 15% made a preventable mistake because raising it felt more dangerous than letting it happen. Silence is not a wellbeing line item here, it is an operational risk with a defect rate attached.

• Engage for Success · 2026

  Productivity Starts with People: Key Findings from the 2026 Engage for Success Annual Survey

  Engage for Success asked whether leaders and managers put people issues first. Where staff saw both do it, engagement stood at 79%; where they saw neither, it was 50%, and more than a third of staff saw neither. The same report links command-and-control management with more stress and more people keeping quiet about problems, so the gap is less about perks than about how a manager runs the week.