The Reality Of Performance Reviews
‘Annual performance review’ -three words that frequently strike terror into the hearts of team leaders and team members alike. For the former they represent endless form filling…
Read more →The Placebo Effect Of Leadership Communication
Talking recently with a group of communicators from the pharmaceutical sector, the conversation turned to the placebo effect – where medicines which have no active ingredient are given to patients for…
Read more →Sovereignty and Values
I attended a European Referendum debate in my local Methodist church last week. As you’d expect the debate made it’s way round to sovereignty and as…
Read more →Leadership, The Key To Change
After 15 years of helping companies lead people through change you’ll be unsurprised to know that we have created an approach to help organisations engage and lead people through a change, so…
Read more →Leadership Of The Hard To Reach/ Remote Workers
A question we get asked a lot is about how to lead and engage remote workers. This is a key challenge within the construction industry…
Read more →Is Less More In Leadership Development?
‘Less is more’ – the saying attributed to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is usually taken to mean that simplicity, clarity and focus enable effective and productive design. He…
Read more →A Simple Story Of Successful Leadership
“But we’ve told them a thousand times….” or words to that effect. We hear this a lot from exasperated executive teams when we give them…
Read more →A Leaders Role…
It’s crucial that leaders are constantly thinking about how to reengage and refocus their employees. The first task is to refocus people, remind them where the organisation is…
Read more →The Five Senses Of Values
‘How do we get our values to come to life?’ It’s a question we get asked a lot. Many organisations have values but in few…
Read more →Bring Your Events To Life
Town Halls and company events are a crucial time for rallying everyone together, aligning the organisation, sharing news, inspiring employees. Yet, how many of us measure…
Read more →The Future Of HR Decision-Making Today…
You may have heard that ‘People Analytics’ is the hot topic in HR at the moment. However, in my experience, most companies are still trying to understand what this actually means. HR remains the lowest ranked user of metrics and…
Read more →Talent Retention
Attracting and keeping good people is a major challenge for financial services. The reputational impact of the crash ten years ago is still casting a…
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