Authority vs Anarchy: Freedom at Workplace
The business medium has become more and more preoccupied with management strategies and there are probably thousands of written and video pieces offering advice on how to balance organizational authority with employee freedom. The new generations impacted company culture, influencing the rise of a more progressive management that focuses on employee experience. The advantages […]
How to make business travel more efficient
Business travel is an inevitable part of company life. Whether you’re a large or small business, most companies will have to send employees around the world for meetings, research and business development at some point. Whilst there are real tangible benefits to business travel, there are also downsides, not least of which are the time […]
Leveraging Millennials at the Office
The millennial generation (people born roughly between 1985 and 2000) gets a bad rap, often described by older generations as self-centered and disrespectful. While they are often viewed in the workplace as difficult to manage, high maintenance, and disloyal, the millennial generation brings a lot of knowledge and tech expertise to the table. Millennial traits […]
How Workplace Comfort Affects Employee Commitment
In the United States, companies are always pressing to be more successful, more productive, more efficient. In many cases, CEOs believe that this press will help their companies survive. They may even view pushing these items to be their only chance of survival in a cutthroat work environment. In fact, by creating high stress, cutthroat […]
At a time of crisis: Leaders emerge
Musing on the never-ending challenge of running a household, a colleague recently propounded their steady-state theory of food shopping. Given all other conditions being equal; food consumed is replenished by new purchases, resulting in a steady stream of goods passing through the house which acts as an unchanging conduit for consumption. A small amount of […]
Investing in leadership development is invaluable
Developing leadership and management expertise and skills is an investment no business should overlook. Companies and organisations, big and small, operate more efficiently and are generally more successful when led by an effectual management team. Well-trained managers help boost morale and set clear objectives, aiding company success, amongst a whole host of other profitable benefits. […]
“Organisations focus too much on performance being purely on what is in people’s goals.”
Paul Corke is Leadership Development Manager at MBNA. He was previously Learning Manager at Bank of America and before that Training Manager at Barclaycard. In this interview he lets us know his views on leadership today, the future of leadership and best practice when it comes to developing leaders. Jamie Lawrence, Managing Editor, HRZone: What […]
Feedforward – A new direction in giving effective
Giving effective Feedback is an essential leadership skill, one that is regularly dreaded. Employees need to know if their performance is what their leaders expect from them and, if not, they need suggestions on how to improve it. Many Leaders have used techniques such as the classic “feedback sandwich” approach which formed the core of many […]
How great CEOs put workplace culture first
Culture affects employee onboarding, employee engagement, and customer appeal, so it’s not surprising that many great CEOs put workplace culture first. What is culture? Sometimes workplace culture gets confused with free food, unlimited vacation, and other perks. While such things may be an expression of culture, they aren’t culture itself. Culture is defined by the […]
Choosing the Right Inbound Marketing Platform
When you are starting a business you need to come up with a practical idea and execute it by creating a business plan and strategy. The business cannot succeed just because you are offering the best products and services. Every business needs to have a marketing strategy so that you can reach out to the […]
CIPD Leaders in Learning – 7th September 2017
CIPD Leaders in Learning events These are free events for L&D professionals (not just members) to attend, to learn, network and discuss with peers the current real challenges facing the industry. If you were not lucky enough to make this event, look at the CIPD website for future events. The topic this time around: Driving […]
Leadership development challenge: implementing AI in the workplace
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) enters the workplace, business leaders need new skills to rise to the challenges and opportunities presented by this disruptive new technology. Task automation is a key area for AI applications. Roles traditionally thought of as requiring a high level human intellect are now being automated. The legal profession is seeing such […]
Challenging assumptions around VR in learning
At its best Virtual Reality is a tool that can be used to boost learning outcomes with immersive, engaging and unique experiences. At its worst, it can be an expensive distraction, perhaps even a negative experience that can make learners motion sick. In our last article, we discussed how VR in learning isn’t as hard […]
Women in Leadership Roles Growing, But Not Enough
While times are changing on a global scale, women unfortunately still lag behind men in terms of success and leadership. As of 2017, men still outnumber women in leadership positions 10 to one, in spite of the progress reported that women in leadership roles are growing. Unfortunately, one burden women face is that they are […]
Beat Those Holiday Blues With Impactful Training
No-one likes going back to work, but have no fear, Autumn is here, and with it comes a great chance for leadership training. But what makes L&D programmes effective? Expedition Organiser James Eynon has some top tips. September is now upon us and that means, alas, the summer is coming to an end. For […]
Conflict management: A leadership imperative
’Conversation’ is imperative to leadership and without effective conversation, leaders can’t communicate their position to the organization: A leader must share his ‘Vision’ before it can be lived, which requires conversation. Conversation underpins ‘Change’. While organizations remain firm to their value, people change, new people arrive and conversation becomes even more important. Meaning and purpose […]
Developing leaders in the digital environment
Is it possible to develop leadership skills effectively in a virtual environment – or is face-to-face delivery really the only way to equip managers with the high level skills they need to meet the challenges of leading in an increasingly complex business environment? There has been much debate in recent years over this question. As companies […]
An illusion of progress: women in senior roles
It was recently announced that the number of UK women earning over £1 million annually has doubled over the past 5 years. In the same breath, the report also claimed that women are still outnumbered by men 10 to one in senior positions. An illusion of progress There is an illusion of progress when it […]
Your Work is your WORK
Charles Darwin is apocryphally quoted as saying, “It’s not the biggest, the brightest, or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.” While he may not have actually said it, the sentiment stands. It is therefore vital that we develop ways and practices that assist us to learn about ourselves. Much has […]
Book review – Fish
Previously I reviewed the book One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson which is a management book with some key management principles explained through a story. You can read that review here. Fish! is another book written in exactly the same story format. In fact Kenneth Blanchard wrote the foreword to this book. This book also deals with some key […]