Do not lose the personal touch!
They say moving house is one of the most stressful experiences of life, apart from birth, death and marriage. I can certainly vouch for that … Read more
How you may be undermining your own organisational success!
“Greatness is ultimately only extreme success.” Those words from my blog last week have stayed with me, perhaps because they make greatness less abstract and … Read more
Achieving Greatness: A Not Impossible Goal!
Ownership will help your people personalise success and fulfilment within the context or their work lives and thus more likely to optimise their contribution to the organisation. While it might not make them great, it will help them feel part of something worthwhile. You simply need to remember that, “The more fulfilled people you have the more successful they will feel. And the more successful people your organisation has, the more successful your organisation will be.” Perhaps even great!
Dealing with Change: Present and Future Engagement
Employee engagement provides a convenient heading for describing what you need, and some solutions for what can help. But unless you provide a framework that addresses both employees’ immediate and future needs your efforts will be doomed, and you will experience the same lack of strategic success that Harvard and Fortune describe.
Empowering Employees & Performance through Employee Ownership
By offering employee ownership without equity the Zealise model provides a solution to all these limitations. It also offers an integrated participatory management approach that will ensure ownership in more than name and create the empowerment so essential to its ultimate success.
Why Valuing Employees Makes Sound Business Sense
The 3 P’s – Product, Process and People – are defined as the key elements of any organisation. Yet service is an integral part of product – and even THE product in a service organisation – while process also necessitates some human intervention somewhere along the line. This means that people are actually key to all three elements. Surely, this has to make people your most important asset.
In which case it seems imperative that you should account for, manage and treat them as such.
Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Model
This very effectively illustrates the virtuous circle of the formula and the reinforcing aspect of its independent and inter-dependent elements. As people develop themselves they will increase their asset value, inevitably enabling them to make a greater contribution to the organisation and help execute strategy effectively. Note that, per the formula, disciplined execution is the multiplier and this will be boosted by their ownership stake which will make them more naturally inclined to do so.
Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Formula
It is not about relativity; it’s about relationships. When you recognise this more people-centric approach and build your business model around it, you will witness the transformation it creates and bask in the success it brings – success that is sustainable.
The Productivity Paradox: Why Business has a Role to Play in Reshaping the Global Economy
Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more
The Core of Employee Engagement
To create the kind of strategic alignment that ensures your strategy is executed you have to build effective relationships. That starts with a clear understanding of what the individual wants, and melding that with the organisational needs. This is core but is about so much more than just employee engagement.