Breaking the Barriers to Change
Change has been endemic in business for decades. Yet identifying, initiating and implementing it successfully has never been straightforward and results almost invariably fall short … Read more
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How Love at Work Transforms Performance
“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
No Mas! It’s Time to Make a Stand!
You could count all the words of Spanish I know on one hand, but “No Mas!” is a phrase I remember well (thanks to an … Read more
Achieving the Remarkable
Achieving the remarkable is truly a team effort, for both an individual and an organisation. It depends on every member of the team doing their best, personally and collectively. You could say it is the result of a number of PBs. So if you want an organisation that achieves the remarkable and creates WOW! you need to recognise that ‘Every Individual Matters.’
How to Effectively Align Your Performance and Rewards
As someone who aims to be an effective organisational leader, do your ever wonder why you have a performance related pay/incentive remuneration scheme? Certainly, if … Read more
Love at Work: A Practical Recipe
“Work is love made visible.” What do those words of Kahlil Gibran’s say to you? I see them both as a constant source of inspiration … Read more
Good versus Bad Bosses – Why Retention is the Wrong Measure
You might be surprised. I was. I had come to accept the idea that people quit their jobs primarily because of bad bosses. Yet, according … Read more
Love at Work
You might see the unpunctuated phrase love at work as a simple statement. Or as a question. Or you might perhaps see it as an … Read more
How far will you go?
Wellness, well-being and mindfulness are all becoming hot topics in the HR and business fraternity. It seems that there is a growing awareness of the … 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.