How much time is wasted around your office coffee machine by people talking about your culture and its impact on performance? Some typical comments might be: 'We're not delivering the results we should' 'There's no leadership around here' 'There's no coherent...
Here's an interesting video by Dan Pink on the surprising truth about what motivates us, providing concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace. [embedvideo type="youtube" id="_mG-hhWL_ug"] Take a look - and let us...
How familiar are these situations? Your organisation adopts a new strategy. While paying lip-service to the change, key staff still resist the new direction, complaining and hoping that things will go back to the way they were. A team regards itself as a group of...
One of the key principles of Leadership is Partnership. We define Leadership as “holding the Vision, causing Partnership, and holding people to Account”. Partnership, we believe, is the ‘holding oneself to account for the success of each member of the team’. What do...
The purpose of your organisation culture should be to support the delivery of the strategic objectives. It should be consciously changed whenever the strategic objectives change. But how often over the last few years have you rewritten your strategic objectives and...
We were intrigued by the following post from Robin Damsky of Find - Fulfill - Flourish, and its implications for business leaders interested in really motivating and engaging their people: There is a remarkable TEDtalk by Dan Pink, author of Drive, about motivation...
Today's post is taken from an article in the The Times this week: "'Soft skills’ need to be taken much more seriously as factors for business success, says a campaign by employers" (14/01/15). We couldn't agree more with its message: These are skills such as...
In many organisations we visit we see meetings where people arrive late, and unprepared for the topics to be discussed. Often, people openly check their emails on their phones or laptops during meetings, or even answer their mobile and leave the room for a while to...
During the space race, a group of US senators visited NASA. One asked a man cleaning the floor: ‘So what do you do?’ The man replied: ‘I’m helping to put a man on the moon!’ The cleaner felt himself so involved in the organisation’s vision that he felt inspired and...
There are two groups of factors to take into account if you want to make your organisation as effective as possible and produce outstanding results quickly, efficiently and permanently. These are the ‘internal’ and the ’external’. ‘Internal’ factors include people’s...
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.