HR

Strategy and Your People: How to Sustain Success

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Recently I came across an article in the July-August 2015 Harvard Business Review entitled, “People before Strategy.” (I am not sure the link will work, … Read more

How Love at Work Transforms Performance

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“Fortune favours the bold.” Or, perhaps Queen Elizabeth I’s legendary rendering of the sentiment as “Faint heart never won fair maiden”, may be more appropriate … Read more

Meeting the Most Pressing Organisational Challenges

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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

“The Paradox of Being Human” and Its Implications in Organisations

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“The Paradox of Being Human” is how Simon Sinek refers to life’s constant conflict between selfishness and selflessness: between “me” and “we.” We spend our … Read more

Transform Your Business Through More Effective Personal Reviews

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There is an increasing tendency to do away with annual performance reviews. That is as it should be, for performance assessment should be an ongoing activity. It is also one that is most honestly done by the employee when the pressures of measurement and its consequences are removed. Career development, however, is not something the person can address unilaterally: it calls for a conversation. Managers still need to sit down with employees and ascertain to what extent they are growing and developing as people, how their work is contributing to that, and what needs to be done to provide and sustain that self-development.

Beware WIIFM: Avoid Its Present Dangers

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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

Transforming Human Resources

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You likely heard the news late last week that the Shell share price rose 7% in response to the news that the company was cutting … Read more

Turning “Human Resources” into “Humane Resources”

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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

Challenge: People Skills or People Management Skills

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The challenge posed thus provides a good starting point for the HR profession to challenge themselves. Not least because the report can be said to imply, from the very first requirements to be outstanding, that HR is itself confused and does not itself fully understand its own role.

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