The Employee Engagement Profit Chain
The motherlode of wealth runs not through the executive corridors but through the vocational landscape of frontline employees.” I know I quoted this, from “Firms … Read more
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The Power of Ownership
I have long championed employee ownership, which is a key element of my ‘Every Individual Matters’ Model. It has always seemed self-evident to me that … Read more
Transformation or Reformation
What’s the difference anyway? That is the question I found myself asking. I was reading the Pulitzer Prize winning author, James MacGregor Burns’ book “Leadership” … Read more
Turbo-Charging Transformation & Performance Improvement
It is encouraging to know that employee ownership is becoming increasingly popular and more widespread. According to Chief Executive Magazine the number of worker-owned businesses … Read more
The Paradox of Management and How to Remedy It
Nor is valuing people as difficult as history would have you believe. In fact it is the core of the ‘Every Individual Matters’ model. Valuing people as assets is the first step in the model and the foundation for building a culture that ensures optimal individual and organisational performance. After all, as Simon Sinek also says, “It is not the genius at the top that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
How to Increase Your Return on Training (ROT)
Now you have an unprecedented means of creating, measuring and managing learning and development within your organisation. It turns training from an expense into a properly evaluated investment with the appropriate return on investment (ROT) that ensures your training is more effective and actually transforms your organisational performance in the way you intend it to.
Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Model
This very effectively illustrates the virtuous circle of the formula and the reinforcing aspect of its independent and inter-dependent elements. As people develop themselves they will increase their asset value, inevitably enabling them to make a greater contribution to the organisation and help execute strategy effectively. Note that, per the formula, disciplined execution is the multiplier and this will be boosted by their ownership stake which will make them more naturally inclined to do so.
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.
Why Employee Engagement Programmes Rarely Work
Have you noticed how employee engagement statistics rarely change? It does not seem to matter who conducts the research or whether it applies to the … Read more
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