The Core of Employee Engagement

To create the kind of strategic alignment that ensures your strategy is executed you have to build effective relationships. That starts with a clear understanding of what the individual wants, and melding that with the organisational needs. This is core but is about so much more than just employee engagement.

Paradox of the Obvious

Perhaps one of life’s biggest frustrations can be something that seems obvious to us may not always be obvious to someone else. Maybe that is … Read more

Teamwork: Fact or Fiction?

 “’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more

Talent Wars or Talent Waste?

Are people’s capabilities diminishing? Our own observations would suggest otherwise. Likewise science would probably point to the opposite. So why has talk of the “War … Read more

The Tyranny of the Task!

A relative of rigid reliance on rules, the tyranny of the task is a result of employee disengagement and entails obsessive, fixated, unthinking behaviour that is counter-productive to almost everything you are trying to achieve. And the only way you can prevent it is to ensure you engage your employees.

Beyond “The Management Myth”

"If you want to succeed in business, don't get an MBA. Study philosophy instead." Matthew Stewart.    Those words, the byline of a June 2006 article, … Read more