MoreThanNow

This post by our academic collaborator Siri Chilazi encapsulates brilliantly why we think it is so important to evaluate your DEI practices. When we look ahead to 2025, we hope to see many more organisations bring this data-driven approach to their organisations!

We're very proud at MoreThanNow to announce our latest academic collaboration: The AI Lab with Prof. Oliver Hauser from the University of Exeter, Prof. Hyunjin Kim from INSEAD and Prof. Anil Doshi from UCL. Whilst we are sure AI will bring much good to the workplace, we urge organisations to also consider the behavioural factors. We cannot wait to continue creating evidence through experimentation about the implementation, evaluation and adoption of AI. As always, we are looking for more organisational partners to join us in doing so. #AI #behaviouralscience #aiworkplace

We've got RCTeas brewing at M-Tea-N...   We're a company steeped in tradition, like our annual Pukka advent calendar taste testing.    Leaf it to us to make the most of the season. 

We had an amazing time in Stockholm last week!! We brought together a group of inspiring leaders from H&M, AstraZeneca, Merck Group, Sandvik, Telia, Amadeus, GN Group and Ericsson to learn how to apply #behaviouralscience to culture and change. We shared experiments we’ve conducted with three of these organisations, before exploring new HR challenges to tackle with our scientific model in 2025! We also visited Ericsson HQ to celebrate some of our best research and one of our longest-standing relationships. It was brilliant to meet the extended team and get more people excited about a new way of thinking about change. We’re finally happy to confirm the meatballs in the company canteen were top notch :).   We hope to see you all again soon - Selina Millstam, Sandra Kristina Doering, Natalia Farfan Santos, Anna Holm, Helen Anestrand, Anna Söderman, Clara Bodin, Angela Kristiansson, Kaveri Sinhji, Catriona Westhoff- Milne, Mahamud Osman, Charlotte Henriksson, Clara Zeller, Mathilda Jarl, Ash Mishra, Chartered FCIPD, Sigrid Sörberg.

We're so proud of our #behaviouralscience programme. It's designed specifically for HR and Change teams, with a HUGE bias for action and experimentation. Link in the comments if you'd like to learn more!

It's an especially happy Friday today, as we welcome Aayushi Prasad to the MoreThanNow team!    Aayushi is definitely a future #behaviouralscience superstar, and we're delighted she's decided to kick off her career with us as a Behavioural Science Associate. Like many of the MTN team, Aayushi is a graduate of the MSc programme at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is also a classically trained Indian singer!   We're so pleased to have you on the team, Aayushi.

On World Mental Health Day, we're highlighting how many employees report mental health challenges but DO NOT use the benefits and support their organisations provide. Why does this happen and what can we do about it?   The literature reveals many barriers about why people hesitate to seek support. Some are concerned about the stigma surrounding mental health, or don't want their working life to be 'contaminated' by it. Others worry their issues aren't 'serious' enough, or are even sceptical they can be helped at all.   Earlier this year, we worked with Novartis and a team of academics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and University of Zurich to find ways to over come these problems. Our work was published in Harvard Business Review and you can read it below. As always, there's lots of nuance and more questions to answer, but we found that despite all the barriers, storytelling from peers really encourages others act and seek support. Happily, we find that it doesn't really matters the nature of the story, it just matters that we talk about it. We hope more of that happens today and everyday :) --- Many thanks to the authors on this article: Laura Giurge, Lauren Howe, Zsófia Belovai, Guusje Lindemann and Sharon O'Connor. #worldmentalhealthday #wellbeing #mentalhealth

The final experiment in our HBR focussed on #performance at Vodafone. This was a landmark study: It showed how the conversation between manager and employee can fundamentally change how feedback is given and received. We loved these findings at MoreThanNow. They perfectly encapsulate how 'thinking small' can drive big impact at scale in organisations. You just have to choose the right moment! ------ Huge thanks to our friends at Vodafone, involved in experiments past present and future - Carl Clarke, Michelle Davies, @Eleanor Oretti, Christy Mason, Alison Morgan, Clare Walker.

Our experiment at Sandoz is one of our most popular. It revealed the true power of the 121 meeting. Not as a time to talk through to-do lists, but as a vehicle for culture change and relationship building! This experiment was run in 2022 and has inspired so many follow-ups. If we can influence 121's for the better, we can also influence team meetings, project reviews, work allocation and so on... This is where we believe culture is won and lost - in the heat of everyday moments. It's a philosophy that remains at the heart of all our work. cc - Antoine Ferrère, Chris Rider, Baiba Renerte Frank Kellenberg, Dr. Stefanie Nickel, Silvia Castro, Florian Englmaier, Maria Guadalupe.

Our experiment with AstraZeneca was genuinely ground-breaking. It was our first study on #goalsetting, and our first to use one of the most famous principles in behavioural science: #TheFreshStartEffect. We're proud to have shown how this much-loved insight can be used in the workplace, and we're itching to use it at other moments of change: Are you going through a transformation? Maybe a restructure, a new strategic direction, or the launch of a new leadership model? A fresh start might be just what you need :)