Closing the gap between rhetoric and reality
How closely does your organisational behaviour resemble your organisational rhetoric? And does it really matter? I say that it does. After all, if an individual … Read more
Employee Engagement
Reaching for the sky in performance improvement?
Performance improvement. Are you struggling for it? Is your organisation? Don’t worry – you are not alone. A quick search on performance improvement in Google … Read more
Work-Life Integrity: A Matter of Timing!
In my last blog I revealed the new (to me) term of ‘work-life integrity.’ I described how it was an eureka term for me and … Read more
Work-life Integrity! Now you are speaking my language!
Yes!!! Of course!! I cannot believe that I didn’t ever use this term myself. For years I have been telling anyone who would listen how … Read more
What is it about change? Running out of puff and how to avoid it.
Perhaps it goes against the grain, but sometimes you have to feel sorry for politicians. It seems they can never really win. Think for a … Read more
What a difference being sociable can make!
Where do you stand on social marketing? That is not an easy question. Even the term ‘social marketing’ invokes a multitude of different concepts. That … Read more
The Secret Ingredient for Effective Change
They might be words I wrote myself. And if they aren’t they certainly convey a message that I have been promoting for quite a while … Read more
How HR can fill the gaps!
“Talent troubles – can HR fill the gaps?” That was the headline for the CIPD’s “star article” in the February edition of “In a nutshell”; … Read more
Employee engagement does not have to be difficult
It is hard enough to find a universal definition of employee engagement. Now new research identifies that there are 4 types of employee engagement. So … Read more
How to do the impossible
Oh, how I laughed! I know it dates me, but one of my abiding memories from school is haircut inspections, when prefects – those privileged … Read more