Why Employee Engagement Efforts Are Failing
It’s quite remarkable! In a world of incessant change it is a barometer of consistency. It never seems to change. Recent surveys indicate employee disengagement … Read more
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Leadership made easy
The leader leads and the boss drives. Employee ownership links the life-investment your people are making in your organisation with a sense of shared purpose. It serves as a catalyst to create the autonomy, mastery and purpose that will deliver the well-being and emotional equity to secure employee engagement and sustain better performance and better results. It will thus enable you to stop driving and lead more effectively.
HR: The New Frontier
It’s been 10 years since I set out on a new career path with the mantra “HR is the new IT.” For me it was … Read more
Change Management Needs Leadership
The postman delivered my latest edition of “Best Practices in Change Management” this week. This is the Prosci Benchmarking Report following their 8th longitudinal study … Read more
The Performance Paradox
At the European Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) conference in London earlier this week, a speaker introduced us to Neuroscience, a clearly complex topic … Read more
Looking for leadership
How’s your organisation’s leadership? That is likely to be anything but an easy question. Especially if you are the organisation’s leader! And it is … Read more
It really is this easy!
My core message is not new or original: people are an organisation’s greatest asset. The fact is that it is your people who shape your … Read more
Lies, damned lies, statistics … and accounts?
You see these accounts showed that operating profits had grown by 1.487 billion currency units over the 10 years. Pretty impressive, I am sure you will agree. However, during this time – the same 10 years – the accounts showed that the staff costs had decreased by 2.014 billion currency units. That means the staff cost savings were 136% of the increased profits, due largely to average employee numbers being reduced by 110,000 people.
Will RISES prevent a fall?
After writing about values for the past few weeks, it seems only appropriate to pause to consider the new values-based direction that Barclays Bank is … Read more
The Core of Effective Communication
Effective communication is a life-skill and certainly a core competency for any leader. Whether you are trying to change the culture of your organisation, transform … Read more