Building Your Brand

As a business leader you invest a fair proportion of your time in your organisation’s brand – consciously and unconsciously. Your efforts are conscious when … Read more

Achieving the Remarkable

Achieving the remarkable is truly a team effort, for both an individual and an organisation. It depends on every member of the team doing their best, personally and collectively. You could say it is the result of a number of PBs. So if you want an organisation that achieves the remarkable and creates WOW! you need to recognise that ‘Every Individual Matters.’

Employee Engagement: Not ‘Love for Work’, but ‘Love at Work’

Talking about love at work is a surprisingly daunting prospect. Whether that is by default or design, it seems the word love is seldom, if … Read more

How to Create a Great Employer Brand

Where does your company rank in the echelons of “best employer” or “best company to work for”? After all the likelihood is that, even if … Read more

How to Effectively Align Your Performance and Rewards

As someone who aims to be an effective organisational leader, do your ever wonder why you have a performance related pay/incentive remuneration scheme? Certainly, if … Read more

What Is The Future of Work?

With 3 in 10 jobs in the US held by the self-employed and their sub-contractors there is no doubt that the workplace is changing. (Source) … Read more

Meeting the Most Pressing Organisational Challenges

Having written about “the defining issue of our time” last week, it seemed like remarkably good timing that this week PWC’s 19th Annual Global CEO … 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.

Do You Really Want Contract Workers?

It started before the “Great Recession” but that period of economic history has seen it proliferate even more. Certainly reports suggest the trend of hiring … Read more

Beware Employee Engagement Hyperbole!

At the end of the day employees are people and employee engagement is ultimately about nothing more than how best to deal with your people; by treating them as human beings. After all, as Conant clarified, they are what ultimately determine your success.