Employee Engagement | A Big Thing? A few years ago, when I had just finished participating in a video conference with a larger SME that was reviewing its three-year strategic growth plan. While waiting for a missing document to be found and distributed, the regional...
Winning Teams Need A Winning Leader Note: This blog (longer than usual) is constructed of extracts from a Leadership session I delivered approximately two years ago. Therefore, it may not flow as well as what you have come to expect of me. Teams are everywhere but...
Ever considered why you will find teams everywhere and why Team Development is an essential topic? Of course not, because you already know why teams exist; synergy. Synergy leads to productivity, productivity leads to benefit! But the productivity that creates such...
When considering Reputation Management, I’m repeatedly bemused by the contrast in the amounts of an organisation’s advertising budget compared to their reputation protection budget. I jest! Obviously, most organisations don’t have a line item in their expenses ledger...
What do your staff say they hear from you? Some time ago I completed interviewing several employees from a well-established company in the service industry. Their manager has been in her current role for nearly 2 years. She is not only technically competent, with more...
Communication Management; what are you saying? A recent business survey found that Communication Management is still undervalued by most organisations, to their peril. While it would be so easy to criticise such behaviour, reality reflects that this is a challenging...
Core Values; Does every organisation have them? One would like to think so, but certainly, not all organisations specifically articulate their core values. Some will say that you will find them in their vision and/or mission statements, but I prefer the separate...
Life is worth observing and conflict in life is common. A client once asked me; “how did you come to understand so much about individuality?” His question, and my subsequent reply, made me focus on the fact that I can’t remember a time in my adult life when I...
There are those rare moments when amazing inspiration will align all the potential elements within us to embark on a life-changing journey; for the rest of the time, we need to remain motivated. – Russell Driscoll Motivation and Inspiration – huge...
Is BOB a friend of yours? | Business Fundamentals Following are some thoughts on a pet topic of mine; Business Fundamentals. In my opinion, there are very few totally incompetent managers existing in successful organisations today. Most are highly qualified,...
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