If you want to fulfil your leadership potential and be more effective as a leader, you don’t need to be more politically savvy – you need to be more “strategically savvy.” You need to be more inclusive. Only then will you build the trust and common purpose that delivers strategic alignment, and ensures sustainability and success, through strategically savvy people.
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.
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
Perhaps you have heard that Accenture is abandoning performance appraisals. (If not, you can read about it here.) Whenever or however you learned this, you … Read more
My wife and I love this picture. So much so that, when our son gave it to us after we acquired our ginger cat, we … Read more
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
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
The other day I had an epiphany! I was watching a Matthieu Ricard TED Talk on “The Habits of Happiness” and was struck by his … Read more
Flavour of the past week has undoubtedly be the question of ethics. Editorial comments have abounded and most, if not all, the newsletters I have … Read more
Viewing training as an investment seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Given this and the fact that UK businesses alone are estimated to spend over £50 billion a year on training, it is no wonder that management is so ready to ditch it. It could not be otherwise. That is why the time has come to measure and increase the ROT.