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.

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

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

Light in dark times

Sustainability has to include sustainability of the organisation itself. Paradoxically that demands an external focus.

Naked Nights: Diary of Customer Service on a Trip to Tunis (5)

Lessons: Service Hell versus Helluva (Good) Service My latest trip to Tunis was a marked contrast to my previous 3 which had all been uneventful … Read more

Naked Nights: Diary of Customer Service on a Trip to Tunis (4)

Day 6: The Return Thus it was that 5:30 a.m. the next morning saw me sitting on my computer bag trying to fit in all … Read more

Naked Nights: Diary of Customer Service on a Trip to Tunis (3)

Days 4 and 5: Plumbing the Depths. It seemed that my faith was futile. The next 2 days brought more of the same. I persisted … Read more

Naked Nights: Diary of Customer Service on a Trip to Tunis (2)

Days 2 and 3: The Saga of Socks and Shoes. Unfortunately over the next couple of days things got worse. At the end of Day … Read more