People as Assets – Fact or Fiction?
“People are our greatest/most important assets!” How often have you heard that? It has become rather a cliché. But how much validity does the statement … Read more
Employee Engagement
Leadership made easy
The leader leads and the boss drives. Employee ownership links the life-investment your people are making in your organisation with a sense of shared purpose. It serves as a catalyst to create the autonomy, mastery and purpose that will deliver the well-being and emotional equity to secure employee engagement and sustain better performance and better results. It will thus enable you to stop driving and lead more effectively.
How Management is Lobotomising Leadership
The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.
A spectacular own goal!
For a profession that vociferously proclaims its right to a place at the high table of management the HR profession is remarkably adept at undermining … Read more
You can only wonder!
Life is an enigma. Nevertheless there are certain things that one ought to be able to take for granted. Without question one of those should … Read more
Ban the Rule Books and Performance Management
If nobody ever sets out to do a bad job, why do we need to spend so much time and effort controlling how people do/did their work?
HR: The New Frontier
It’s been 10 years since I set out on a new career path with the mantra “HR is the new IT.” For me it was … Read more
Change Management Needs Leadership
The postman delivered my latest edition of “Best Practices in Change Management” this week. This is the Prosci Benchmarking Report following their 8th longitudinal study … Read more
Well-being, employee engagement and ownership
All these massive benefits begin by simply recognising that employees are people and not resources.
Organisational Development: What OD really is
It is natural whenever you come across a definition (on a subject that interests you) to try to put it into your own words. That … Read more