Every organisation has a culture. Whether you want to spend your leadership time and resources on it or not, you will have one. It is not something you can decide to not have. The leadership issue for you is, “is it a culture that supports your strategic goals?”
Read MoreIn times when changes are being imposed on a manager and their team, the manager has a number of matters to attend to if they are to be effective at leading and facilitating that change. These are ....
Read MoreI wanted to pass onto you the above book, written by Charan, Drotter and Noel. From my experience in leadership development, as well as my own direct leadership experience, I have long learnt the role, and therefore the leadership development needs, varies for leaders depending on the layer of the organisation from which they are leading. So, I commend this book to anyone responsible for the development and the leadership of leaders in their organisation.
Read MoreSo an investor is looking to purchase, either outright or shares in, one of two businesses. Both businesses have a history of profitability. One business has been developed so it is resilient to the variations our world has to offer. The other has not paid attention to the issue of resilience. For which do you think the investor is prepared to pay the most?
Read MoreI have had the pleasure and privilege of supporting a number of organisations over the years to develop and implement leadership programs. I have also observed organisations burn vital but scarce capability development budget dollars because they did not know how to take a strategic approach to this vital work...
Read MoreWhy do we initiate projects in organisations? It is to achieve an enhanced performance of one or more of many organisational outcomes. These can include profit, cost, safety, staff engagement, customer experience, organisational (brand) reputation, compliance etc. These projects can and do go very well, yet studies continue to show projects under deliver more than half the time. A lack of effective change management is often attributed to the reason for this underachievement.
Read MoreSafety is important to all organisations. It is impossible to convey to your staff that you value them if you do not demonstrate that you take the fundamental issue of safety seriously. The environment in which organisations work does make the management of safety more, or less complex.
Read MoreBased on our 30+ years of organisational experience, successful teams usually meet 10 requirements...
Read MoreAn effective performance management process is integral to maintaining and enhancing employee engagement. It provides clarity on role and priorities, creates opportunities for communication between employees and their managers, ensures professional and career development opportunities are enunciated and implemented and employees receive feedback on how their manager views their performance. All are significant to employee engagement. But how do you ensure managers are applying the process effectively?
Read MoreWhen assessing current performance, there is a fair amount of readily available data to enable a reasonably objective judgment. We have performance appraisal information, salary review data and various other data on organisational performance. Practices for assessing potential, in our experience, tend to be much less objective.
Read MoreIf you accept the premise from the previous article that leadership development is a good investment, how then do you go about developing your leaders?
Read MoreAn ongoing issue for the many people who believe the investment in Leadership is worthwhile and need to gain support for the investment, is the very valid question, “why should we use our scarce resources to invest in leadership over the more concrete issues such as systems and plant, or even the less concrete issues such as Brand? They are, of course, all important.
Read MoreThat’s right, this subject many people consider fluffy adds value to the capital value of your business.
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