Management Evolution: Where do you stand?
You probably know that, if you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, it will eventually boil to death. This fact was … Read more
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How the Learning Cycle Fits into Organisational Development
This is key: while you intuitively understand that your organisation is the aggregate of the people who work in it, you must consciously recognise that every person is an individual. Maximising your organisational learning means maximising individual employee learning. Thus creating a learning organisation, with an effective continuous improvement programme that secures your organisational development, necessitates ensuring you introduce mechanisms that will identify and circumvent the limiting effects of these filters. Your business demands nothing less.
Unlocking Leadership
More than this, though, we have to stop incentivising on the basis of performance. This emphasis on performance distracts while driving and distorting all our reward systems. It inverts the order of this model and means, even at the highest level, that managing becomes more important than leading. Furthermore, if this is not bad enough, it also breeds competition amongst the employees and so builds silos, dilutes synergy and destroys organisational integrity.
You really do not have to look any further to unlock leadership.
Well-being, employee engagement and ownership
All these massive benefits begin by simply recognising that employees are people and not resources.