For your organisation to be a success you need good managers, and too often this is left to chance. Teams and individuals who are badly managed are at best disengaged and at worst can actually sabotage your business. Your rising stars leave to go to work for your competitors and there is a nasty underlying atmosphere in the office. So what do your managers need to know? Apart from being… read more →
Beverly Landais discusses the concept that there can be a virtuous circle of connection between people and an organisation, where peak performance can be reached and maintained for longer. We all want to be noticed. People crave recognition and appreciation. In a world that is too busy, and cluttered with an assault of sensory experiences, the simple things count. A smile as someone passes you by in the street. A… read more →
Communication skills are critical to being an effective leader, but they are seldom the reason people are promoted to leadership positions. Even the most personable and engaging leaders can benefit from knowing more about how to strategically use communications to advance their ideas or align their people around a common goal and drive them to action on behalf of the business. In our work with different organisations, we’ve found it’s… read more →
Back in the not-so-distant past, the world of work seemed a simpler place. Businesses and their employees didn’t seem to worry about targets, annual assessments, metric-driven incentives etc. But then across the pond US organisations started to focus on the goals of increasing their production and efficiencies; and UK businesses started to sit up, take notice and follow in their path. Early Metric-Driven Incentives – MDIs – were (generally) focused… read more →
Do you hold regular one-to-one meetings with your direct reports? And if you do, how effective are they? We look at what you can do to improve those meetings, and offer you an informative one-page guide to download. Occasionally we hear comments such as ‘Oh yes, we have regular one-to-one meetings because we go to client meetings in the same taxi’ or ‘There’s no need for us to have one-to-one… read more →