Organizational Synergy through Empowerment and Teamwork

Synergy. That is a word that may not seem to be as popular or prolific as it once was. Yet that doesn’t make it any … Read more

From Change Management to Change Mastery

Change is a fact of life. It is also a major factor in it. Increasingly so. Both the amount of change and the faster pace … Read more

Meeting the Most Pressing Organisational Challenges

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

Human Capital Reporting: Breaking the Impasse

A third of FTSE 100 companies are withholding vital workforce related information from their annual reports, including skills challenges and employee turnover. New research from … Read more

Challenge: People Skills or People Management Skills

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.

How to Escape the “War for Talent”

Stop waging war and start focussing your efforts on the core issue; developing your people so they have the skills you need and the environment in which they enjoy applying them.

Looking for leadership

How’s your organisation’s leadership?   That is likely to be anything but an easy question. Especially if you are the organisation’s leader! And it is … Read more

The Talent Trap

If you understand, remember and practice the philosophy that the more successful, fulfilled people you have in your organisation, the more successful your organisation will be. But to do that, you have to avoid the talent trap and remember you are managing people, not talent.