A Better Way than Worker Cooperatives and ESOPs

And that is not all. You might even go so far as to say that, rather than espousing the “socialist” label so often associated with worker cooperatives, the ‘Every Individual Matters’ model takes the capitalist imperative to a new level and extends all the benefits of the capitalist model to your employees. It recognises and rewards the investment of both investors and employees, and ensures they work together to reap the rewards of their mutual contributions in a more effective, more productive and less wasteful system.

How to Create a Great Employer Brand

Where does your company rank in the echelons of “best employer” or “best company to work for”? After all the likelihood is that, even if … Read more

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

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

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 Comes from the Hearts of Your People

“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” That quote from Simon Sinek caught my attention this week. It seems so … Read more

Teamwork: Fact or Fiction?

 “’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more

It’s about people management – not talent management!

To function effectively and sustain success any business, regardless of its type, has to be more organic: to operate more as an organism than an organisation. This means you have to create an environment where everyone works together to meet the organisational purpose.The collective capability is what creates the precision that powers and propels performance and sustains success.

People as Assets – A Practical Proposition

The challenge Last week we looked at the statement “people are our greatest asset” and found that it was more than a cliché. The definition … Read more