How to be a Real Leader

“The goal of leadership is producing servants.” What do you make of that statement – a recent article headline? Do you agree? For me it … Read more

How to Escape the “War for Talent”

Stop waging war and start focussing your efforts on the core issue; developing your people so they have the skills you need and the environment in which they enjoy applying them.

Why Human Capital Accounting is Becoming Imperative

You cannot continue to look upon your people as an expendable, easily replaceable cost. If you want your people to develop and “share their competence” you have to enable this. Treating and accounting for your employees as human capital is the vital first step. Are you ready to take it?

How to Inspire the Right Attitude

Employee engagement is, essentially, a matter of attitude. Think about it for a moment. What you are looking for in employee engagement, is employees who … Read more

How to Embed Powerful Employee Engagement

The new Zealise “Triple A Employee ® Model”: a system to help you assess performance on an ongoing basis whilst simultaneously reinforcing the key elements of all your endeavours to engender and sustain employee engagement.

Revealed: The Link between Purpose and Powerful Employee Engagement

Now you can see how closely allied purpose and employee engagement are. The more you can align these three drivers of individual and organisational purpose the more engaged your employees will be, and the better your organisational performance.

Teamwork: Fact or Fiction?

 “’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more

Taken for granted?

How much do you take things for granted? Something that helps keeps me on guard against this is an unforgettable experience I had when in … Read more

Why Employee Engagement Programmes Rarely Work

Have you noticed how employee engagement statistics rarely change? It does not seem to matter who conducts the research or whether it applies to the … Read more

Beware Employee Engagement Hyperbole!

At the end of the day employees are people and employee engagement is ultimately about nothing more than how best to deal with your people; by treating them as human beings. After all, as Conant clarified, they are what ultimately determine your success.