What Is The Future of Work?
With 3 in 10 jobs in the US held by the self-employed and their sub-contractors there is no doubt that the workplace is changing. (Source) … Read more
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How effective is your incentive remuneration, really?
Who doesn't like a bonus? It is always nice to get more in your pay packet than usual. A bonus naturally make you feel good … Read more
A misguided idea of leadership: could this be the ultimate leadership mistake?
If you want to fulfil your leadership potential and be more effective as a leader, you don’t need to be more politically savvy – you need to be more “strategically savvy.” You need to be more inclusive. Only then will you build the trust and common purpose that delivers strategic alignment, and ensures sustainability and success, through strategically savvy people.
How you may be undermining your own organisational success!
“Greatness is ultimately only extreme success.” Those words from my blog last week have stayed with me, perhaps because they make greatness less abstract and … Read more
The Core of Employee Engagement
To create the kind of strategic alignment that ensures your strategy is executed you have to build effective relationships. That starts with a clear understanding of what the individual wants, and melding that with the organisational needs. This is core but is about so much more than just employee engagement.
What is HR anyway?
Only when you properly and fully align individual, team and organisational goals can you deliver a total strategy. Thus HR should play an essential role in executing strategy. If HR understands this, and can articulate it effectively, there should be no confusion about their role and the gap in understanding can be closed for once and for all.
Customer Experience: Are You Setting Up for Failure?
Thus the slip between cup and lip, strategy and implementation, can be enormous if your focus is wrong and your people are not fully engaged. So make sure when you set customer experience as a measure that it is something over which you have total control and that you are not setting yourself up for failure.
Paradox of the Obvious
Perhaps one of life’s biggest frustrations can be something that seems obvious to us may not always be obvious to someone else. Maybe that is … Read more
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
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.