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Organisation Culture
The platform is burning: Are you and your business ready for the new way of working?
Covid-19 has pitched businesses into a situation where all the rules have changed. Instead of moving forwards through the business growth cycle, you might now be in danger of lurching backwards. As a leader, it’s up to you not only to recognise this, but to take advantage of the opportunities it brings.
What’s in it for me? The rise of the entitled employee in SMEs
When can I expect promotion? How much will my next pay rise be? Can we have better social and leisure facilities? How much will you pay me for taking on more responsibility? Does it sometimes seem that your employees expect your company to deliver ever more and better...
Is there really a big secret to managing millennials?
As a contributing editor to inc.com, Jeff Haden has recently published an article entitled 'A Study of 600,000 People Shows the Secret to Managing Millennials Is to Quit Thinking of Them as Millennials'. It's a timely and essential read, and we couldn't agree with...
Accountability vs responsibility
Take a look at job descriptions in almost any organisation. You’ll find they’re broad statements of areas of responsibility or lists of activities. Job descriptions like this are concerned with activity rather than output, and fuel the culture of ‘hard work’ and long...
How far ahead are you planning?
In a thought-provoking post from Neil Crofts, he looks at the effect of short-term planning on the way we live and work, and whether we should be challenging our notion of this. Most of us when we are young find it difficult to think more than a short time ahead. As...
The biggest problem with bonus, and 5 ways you can fix it
We suggested recently that it might be a good time for you to take a long hard look at your organisation’s bonus scheme. Instead of motivating, engaging and rewarding staff for great performance and accountability, the bonus culture can get in the way, encouraging a...
Businesses just grow organically – there’s no need for structure, surely…
In my last article I wrote about the trap of over-engineering your organisation as it grows, in the mistaken assumption that people and systems designed for third generation (3G) organisations will automatically be right for your larger 2G organisation. Equally...
Stop over-engineering your organisation
Don't assume that if it works for a 3G organisation - whether it be an employee, a computer system, a benefits scheme or a specific external supplier - it’ll work for your 2G company. It usually won’t. Here's why you should avoid the over-engineering trap... When your...
SME with big business aspirations? Don’t put the cart before the horse…
Do you assume you have to provide big-company benefits and opportunities when you are still an SME and need everyone to take accountability? It's a common mistake made by second generation organisations. Here's why. As a company moves from first to second generation,...
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.