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.

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?

Can you really manage with non-permanent employees?

As a writer myself, I understand the difficulties of creating “attention-grabbing” headlines and titles. And this week I was struck by the headline, ‘Why the … 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

Employee Engagement & the Holy Grail

What do happiness and employee engagement have in common? Actually it may be more than you think. In fact it is quite possible that they … Read more