How to Build Proficiency
To communicate effectively you’re going to need Information, which becomes Knowledge, which leads to Experience, which leads to Proficiency, which gives you Wisdom, which gives … Read more
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How to Improve Real-World Leadership Practice
“The science of leadership is well established.” So says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a Professor of Business Psychology at University College London. This premise enables him to … Read more
Transform Your Business Through More Effective Personal Reviews
There is an increasing tendency to do away with annual performance reviews. That is as it should be, for performance assessment should be an ongoing activity. It is also one that is most honestly done by the employee when the pressures of measurement and its consequences are removed. Career development, however, is not something the person can address unilaterally: it calls for a conversation. Managers still need to sit down with employees and ascertain to what extent they are growing and developing as people, how their work is contributing to that, and what needs to be done to provide and sustain that self-development.
How to Embed Powerful Employee Engagement
The new Zealise “Triple A Employee ® Model”: a system to help you assess performance on an ongoing basis whilst simultaneously reinforcing the key elements of all your endeavours to engender and sustain employee engagement.
How Management is Lobotomising Leadership
The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.