Breakfast Insight: A Simple Model of Motivation
Breakfast Insight is your short dose of new ideas and food for thought, perfect to watch with your morning coffee. Today we're chatting to Carole Gaskell, founder of Full Potential Group. Contact or ask Carole a question on Twitter at @fullpotentialgr. Carole tells us about: The 'motivation as energy' argument – our 'inner fire' Why helping […]
Book Review: Designing The Purposeful Organisation
Clive Wilson’s Designing the Purposeful Organisation is a striking and compelling argument for placing ‘purpose’ at the heart of every organisation. Told in an almost personal narrative style, the author’s voice resonates throughout, embedding the key message that ‘for organisations to be successful, they must be purpose-driven’. Although arguably a simple enough premise, Wilson guides […]
Optimizing Mid-Year Performance Evaluations
Every company, partnership, firm, organization and government department has goals. Regardless of whether institutions are profit oriented or non-profitable by purpose and constitution, they are founded by a purpose and strive for the realization of particular goals. Any good company that rarely misses its goals lays emphasis on the specifics of its goals. It sets […]
Book review: Under New Management – How leading organizations are upending business as usual
Burkus is no stranger to controversial approaches to business, having previously penned The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. It’s one I’ve already added to my Wish List for future reading, based on how engaging I have found his latest work. Burkus is not a sensationalist. He […]
Eight ways women can get more career-savvy
Women are often so focused on proving themselves and doing a good job that they overlook the need to plan and manage their careers. But being more strategic and having a clear plan will give you them better chance of realising their career ambitions and achieving a more satisfying working life. This is the core message […]
Switching software suppliers/business systems?
The thought of change can be scary and business software is definitely no exception. When it’s time to switch suppliers, how do you know if you are making the right decision? How can you ensure an easy transition to a new business system? Are there any top tips for ensuring that the switch isn't a difficult […]
Leadership development: a leap of faith?
Justin Hughes writes on issues relating to team and organisational performance. A former Red Arrows pilot, he is now Managing Director of Mission Excellence, a consultancy focused on improving clients' execution – their ability to close the gap between what gets talked about and planned, and what gets done. Justin previously spent 12 years as an RAF […]
Measuring the impact of training
Develop-meant Training Consultants has worked with The Rickter Company for a number of years. Manager Adrian Pitt talks about his relationship with the organisation and The Rickter Scale® assessment and appraisal tool. My association with “the brilliant blue board” goes back well over a decade. I’m never far from The Rickter Scale®! There’s a demonstration board in […]
Are you considering purchasing an LMS but implementation is putting you off?
As the majority of businesses know the process of buying a software solution does not end once the contract has been signed. Approximately 63% of CRM installations fail due to poor system implementation, which highlights the importance of a smooth transition towards embedding new business software. We've suggested 3 ways to effectively implement an LMS. It would be great to hear of […]
Book review: Purple Your People by Jane Sunley
Who wouldn’t want and need their organisation to be as successful as possible, asks the author. In the opening chapter, “The people stuff – why it matters”, the 2011 research of Purple People indicates that 100% of business leaders say you need a people plan but a third of organisations don’t have a plan at […]
Leading development
If I asked you to name the top reasons why organisational development (OD) fails in many companies what would your answer be? Setting aside the obvious answer, that for some leaders the day-to-day is so all-consuming they never get around to looking towards the future, it’s a fair bet that lack of resources, resistance to […]
OD through innovation
How do you approach organisational development? Is it imposed as a top-down highly defined structure or is it delivered as an intrinsic part of a culture which seeks to deliver solutions through innovation? I admit that these are two polar ends of a sliding scale but your answer could indicate your organisation’s current level of […]
A culture of development
Why do so many OD efforts fall by the wayside? It’s hard to understand isn’t it? After all the effort that the leadership team have gone to in order to define the strategy and with the OD team tasked with identifying and delivering the change required in order to deliver the strategy, what can go […]
Directing organisational development
In my last article (investing in good governance) I concluded by highlighting the importance of good governance, of having a boardroom team which fully understands the potential which can be gained from making decisions which will have a lasting impact on the organisation. That article was looking at return on investment but my concluding comments […]
How do you manage change within your organisation?
Change is inevitable within any organisation. In this blog series we have outlined why employees shouldn't be afraid of changes within their organisation and ways to achieve successful change management: Don't Fear Organisational Change! How To Successfully Lead Employees In Times Of Organisational Change It would be great to hear any other tips or experiences of managing change […]
LIVE: Social Age Safari with Sea Salt Learning
We're living in the social age! It's touching every part of our lives and is changing the very heart of society. The pressures that bear on us have shifted. We face new challenges and new opportunities. And we're living right in the eye of the hurricane, watching the world around us change. How are we […]
Shaping the Company Culture After a Significant Business Change
Every business has culture, regardless its size, industry, or age. What separates successful companies from their competitors is the ability to leverage culture to bolster their business goal. It calls for engaging hearts and mind of employees and creating an environment where employees are inspired to achieve extraordinary results. Today, organization culture has received tremendous […]
Merging cultures
Why do so many seemingly rock solid mergers end in failure? Did the figures simply not stack up or were identified synergies simply not there to be had. Perhaps the merger was a last ditch attempt to recapture the market which had already moved beyond reach or maybe what looked like a good fit turned […]
How to see the other side of an employer ‘betrayal’
Ugly word isn’t it? Betrayal. So much venom, poison and dark intentions yet it exists. I am sure that in our good human hearts we would like to believe that no one would set out to betray another intentionally. After all the feelings it leaves those reeling with are in no way positive and can […]
Analysing 70/20/10: can we make a difference to the 90% of learning that we can’t control?
70/20/10 is a hot topic. In this article Jo Ayoubi, CEO of Track Surveys, shines the spotlight on the 90% of the formula that the organisation can't control, and asks to what extent we can influence this in a positive way. We’re all familiar with the 70/20/10 model of learning – it’s been around for some time, […]
