Blog - Strategic Leadership

17 Aug

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR

By Paul Tuck

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR Sometimes people ask me “What is the purpose of HR?”. That’s an easy question – HR is a business function that leads the people aspects of the enterprise to create organisational capability for competitive advantage. However, when it comes...

01 Aug

Organisational Effectiveness – HR’s Opportunity for Strategic Impact

By Paul Tuck

How does HR make a business impact? By ensuring the organisation is aligned to execute the strategic decisions! When HR takes primary responsibility for leading organisational effectiveness (Lawler, 2014) it creates a means of delivering the strategy and is a source of sizeable and durable competitive advantage(McKinsey 2012).

26 Jul

The roles of IQ, EQ and SQ in turbulent times

By Kate Tuck

I know as much about change, turbulence and failure as I do about success. I did not start my career aspiring to run a steel company, nor did I plan to be a rather relentless breaker of barriers in business and in the community at large. What I have...

10 Jul

What is self-awareness and why should leaders care?

By Thor Olafsson

What is self-awareness and why should leaders care? “The point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, and to use yourself completely – all your gifts, skills and energies – to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must in sum, become the...

26 Jun

Today’s CFO: Which profile best suits your company?

By Kate Tuck

Share this article on LinkedIn Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Facebook Email this article Download this article Profiles of today’s CFO show how the role is evolving and raise important questions for boards about talent and leadership development.

02 May

Why should anyone choose you?

By Helga Oddsdottir

In research conducted in 2015, Gallup found that about 50% of more than 7200 adults asked, had left a job because of their manager. Wall Street Journal published an article based on the Gallup research and noted; That supports the old cliché; people don’t leave their jobs, they leave...

12 Apr

How to Motivate People Beyond Money

By Christopher Atkinson

The imperative to make a critical shift forward is written on the walls of our workplaces. Money is not enough, because in a world of increasing change, challenges, competition the litmus test, the NEW currency of success is providing YOUR people, YOUR bread and butter, the foundation of YOUR...

28 Mar

The Heart of Leadership

By Thor Olafsson

At the heart of leadership there is always a person. Someone like you, committed to serving others as a leader: truthful, courageous, purpose driven, humble, strong, fair and compassionate. Someone, who realises that leadership is not about money or status, but rather about positive...

23 Mar

Quick Insight: Praise and Recognition

By Christopher Atkinson

Critical feedback seems like a good way of increasing performance but research is demonstrating that the role of strengths is far more important than we imagined.

21 Mar

Why Leadership Needs Empathy

By Thor Olafsson

My manager truly cared about me as a person more than he did about me as an employee. Something I saw in him and in some of the managers I had afterwards was that they really put people first.