The Core of Employee Engagement

To create the kind of strategic alignment that ensures your strategy is executed you have to build effective relationships. That starts with a clear understanding of what the individual wants, and melding that with the organisational needs. This is core but is about so much more than just employee engagement.

Customer Experience: Are You Setting Up for Failure?

Thus the slip between cup and lip, strategy and implementation, can be enormous if your focus is wrong and your people are not fully engaged. So make sure when you set customer experience as a measure that it is something over which you have total control and that you are not setting yourself up for failure.

Paradox of the Obvious

Perhaps one of life’s biggest frustrations can be something that seems obvious to us may not always be obvious to someone else. Maybe that is … Read more

Why Employee Engagement Efforts Are Failing

It’s quite remarkable! In a world of incessant change it is a barometer of consistency. It never seems to change. Recent surveys indicate employee disengagement … Read more

Customer Experience Comes from the Hearts of Your People

“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” That quote from Simon Sinek caught my attention this week. It seems so … Read more

Organisational Development is about Your People

Where do you fit on the chart below? Naturally the answer depends on what aspect of your life you are measuring. So let’s give it … Read more

People Matter: My Vision

I see a day when all people of all nations will rise up and live their life to their fullest potential. I see a time … Read more

People Matter: The Mantra of Leaders

“We JUST need to engage our heads and our hearts in a leadership process that validates the worth of every individual. Where everybody matters.” (My … Read more

How red tape strangles employee engagement

My apologies to my devoted fans (you know who you are LOL) for being late with this week’s blog. I hope you will forgive me … Read more

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