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
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Beware Employee Engagement Hyperbole!
At the end of the day employees are people and employee engagement is ultimately about nothing more than how best to deal with your people; by treating them as human beings. After all, as Conant clarified, they are what ultimately determine your success.
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.
Redundancy: When will they ever learn?
As long as you continue to manage people as costs, rather than as assets, redundancy will always remain an attractive option. Even if redundancy is not a “knee-jerk” reaction to bad performance it certainly can seem like it. At best it reflects badly on management and calls into question their ability – and therefore their right – to oversee a large organisation. Why?
It’s about people management – not talent management!
To function effectively and sustain success any business, regardless of its type, has to be more organic: to operate more as an organism than an organisation. This means you have to create an environment where everyone works together to meet the organisational purpose.The collective capability is what creates the precision that powers and propels performance and sustains success.
Ban the Rule Books and Performance Management
If nobody ever sets out to do a bad job, why do we need to spend so much time and effort controlling how people do/did their work?
Business Balance and Life’s Teeter-totter
As human beings one of the biggest ongoing battles we face is the balancing act between self and society. The struggle between selfishness and selflessness … Read more
Getting off the bonus treadmill!
The festive holidays are over; as ever sped on their way by the bonus season and some promise of reward for reluctant returnees. Yet here … Read more
Overcome the Negatives of Globalisation
We all know, and it is universally acknowledged, that globalisation has dramatically increased competition and created unprecedented demands to be more responsive to customer needs … Read more