Meeting Management’s Greatest Challenges
Apparently there are seven major challenges currently occupying the minds of business leaders and causing them concern. At least, that is what the conference speaker … Read more
employee ownership
How effective is your incentive remuneration, really?
Who doesn't like a bonus? It is always nice to get more in your pay packet than usual. A bonus naturally make you feel good … Read more
How is Your Brand?
Making your people brand ambassadors requires reversing this and focus on outcomes rather than outputs. In order to achieve this you need to make your people brand ambassadors for themselves. In other words, you have to close the divide between individual and organisation. The natural way to do this is to give your people a stake in the outcomes. And there is no better way to do this than through universal employee ownership that results in everyone in the organisation pulling together as a single entity. People need to feel appreciated and, by giving them some skin in the game, you can build this into everything they do, so that it is not an extraneous management process, but an integral part of the organisational culture.
‘People’s Companies’ would make a moral difference
We owe it to ourselves and future generations to get back on the right moral track. Employee ownership or ‘People’s Companies’ clearly offer a means to do this. So why not explore the ‘Every Individual Matters’ model as the way to deliver these?
A simple solution for transforming a ‘dire workplace’
Do you work in a dire workplace? The odds are that you do. At least according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the … Read more
The Difference between a Manager and a Leader
By recognising and focusing on each and every individual, the ‘Every Individual Matters’ model enhances personal performance on an organisation-wide basis and thus inevitably enhances organisational performance. It provides a solid foundation for coaching and so builds a powerful, sustainable leadership framework.
Kill the Performance Review
Performance reviews remain in the news. Last week I wrote about Accenture’s abandoning them, but this week came the even more shattering news that GE … Read more
Fresh Perspective on Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement is a hot topic right now. It is, however, possibly an even trickier one than most of us realise. That’s because we all … Read more
People as Assets
A Google search on “people assets” yielded 664 million results! That is very nearly two thirds of a billion. Mind-boggling! (As is the fact that … Read more
How to Increase Your Return on Training (ROT)
Now you have an unprecedented means of creating, measuring and managing learning and development within your organisation. It turns training from an expense into a properly evaluated investment with the appropriate return on investment (ROT) that ensures your training is more effective and actually transforms your organisational performance in the way you intend it to.