Leadership: Do Our Leaders Really Know What It Is?

True leadership isn’t about antiquated ideas of traditional leadership or leadership development, but about ensuring that you create a culture and environment in which everyone cares: in which everyone is a leader. That is why every individual matters.

Beware WIIFM: Avoid Its Present Dangers

Virtually unheard of ten years ago, WIIFM – the acronym for What’s In It For Me – has become a surprisingly popular term in business. … Read more

Turning “Human Resources” into “Humane Resources”

Last week I wrote about the strange dichotomy in organisations: their dependency on people while generally failing to take any account of the intrinsic drivers … Read more

The Strange Dichotomy of Organisations and How to Bridge It

Thus, although coming from three totally different perspectives, all three of these writers reinforce one another’s conclusions. This makes their findings more credible, and more significant for you as a business leader. To significantly transform performance and results you have to create an environment that makes the best of your people or – more accurately – that allows them to make the best of themselves. For this you need to consider how you are going to create a system or systems that addresses the physical and psychological needs of your people. Both collectively and individually, because every individual matters.

Revealed: The Link between Purpose and Powerful Employee Engagement

Now you can see how closely allied purpose and employee engagement are. The more you can align these three drivers of individual and organisational purpose the more engaged your employees will be, and the better your organisational performance.