Dr. Danny McGuigan

Born in Belfast.

Danny McGuigan was born in Belfast, N. Ireland and now lives in Glasgow where he is Centre Director of The Business Development Centre (BDC).

Specialist training and development interventions:

• Developing “fully functioning” Leaders
• Developing “fully functioning” Managers
• Mentoring and coaching
• Culture change processes
• Resolving conflict with mediation & conciliation
• Teambuilding for top performance

Primary research area – friendship in the workplace.

Danny’s most recent postgraduate award was his PhD for research in HRM at The University of Strathclyde. Danny’s doctoral research focused on “The friendship experiences of senior managers…” and also explored the associated factors that influence individual and collective wellbeing and performance in organisations.

Danny’s key research conclusions were:

• Organisations that encourage the development of friendships at work, as part of their culture and beliefs system, can expect employees that are highly engaged in the organisation and its objectives, high performance that is sustainable, less sickness absence.
  
• An understanding of the power of friendship as a force for good in organisations is absent in the history of management theory and practice.
  
• Many leaders are not comfortable with encouraging friendship at work because they fear loss of control, time-wasting, cliques and romantic liaisons.