The Power of Ownership
I have long championed employee ownership, which is a key element of my ‘Every Individual Matters’ Model. It has always seemed self-evident to me that … Read more
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When will we learn?
When will we learn, or, as Bob Dylan put it, “When will we ever learn?” That is the question I found myself pondering after reading … Read more
Transform Your Business Through More Effective Personal Reviews
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.
Fresh Perspective on Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement is a hot topic right now. It is, however, possibly an even trickier one than most of us realise. That’s because we all … Read more
Beating the Crisis of Ethics
Flavour of the past week has undoubtedly be the question of ethics. Editorial comments have abounded and most, if not all, the newsletters I have … Read more
Why Employee Engagement is Essential and How to Ensure It
When you do that you have engendered the employee engagement which, the data shows, is the foundation for solid teamwork that gives you the organisational integrity to deliver your strategy, transform your results and sustain your success.
Why do you do?
“How do you do?” That statement was an integral part of my upbringing. My parents taught us to say that whenever we met someone new. … Read more
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.
The Secret of Personal and Organisational Alignment
Employee ownership strengthens an employee’s sense of purpose and thereby changes their attitude, but it also helps break the tradition of looking at people purely as a cost and so reinforces the sense of autonomy that builds a virtuous cycle that perpetuates and solidifies the organisational alignment and hence the organisational integrity. Why would you not want to consider this – especially when you can do it at virtually no cost to either individual or organisation? It offers a better employee engagement remedy than anything else in the market.
The Essence of Employee Engagement: What it takes – and delivers
Now you can understand why employee engagement is not an airy-fairy, feel-good concept that HR is trying to foist upon you, but an essential part of business and something that you are – or should be – doing as an integral part of leading your organisation. This is where engagement and success come together. Without employee engagement your success will always be limited.