How to Invest in People vs. Processes
A few years ago, a regional utilities client (who had been a client for many years) made a commitment to invest in a new IT infrastructure which would allow for efficient bookings for the field teams and the use of handheld devices...
Last week Chris Atkinson was interviewed by Brett Gajda for his podcast Where There's Smoke - they discussed inspiration and engagement. The interview includes debate about where people go wrong, our misunderstandings of the topic and three techniques to inspire others.
Doing strategy: How adidas is creating the new Explore how adidas has aligned its people strategy with its business strategy and the interesting results that have come from it, with this article from Nicholas Ind, author of the new book Branding Inside Out.
Strategy, at its heart, is about choice. Few companies succeed by making a single big bet. Most winning strategies are based on a bundle of choices about, among other things, the customers to serve, the scope of the business, product offerings, and capabilities that interact with one another to...
In the pursuit of productivity targets and results, one of the things that often suffers is people’s work life balance. The irony being that this has a direct impact on the very same targets we are trying to achieve. Employee wellbeing is taken into account in business decisions only...
From an instructor’s perspective, I find the Celebration Grid by far the most fascinating tool in the toolkit. I first learnt about celebration grids as they came up during a keynote that Jurgen Appelo gave at the Mile High Agile convention in Denver, Colorado in 2016. In his talk, Appelo explained how he created the...
Employers thinking about allowing — and even encouraging — employees to work remotely are inundated with conflicting information these days.
Recently a video by author and speaker Simon Sinek went viral on social media achieving over 78 million views on Facebook alone. The hot topic was about millennials (people born after 1984) in the workplace. The narrative in the media took a very negative tone about what he was...
The strength of your current and future talent is a great predictor of your business's success. So, here are 5 simple steps to ensure you build your talent pipeline. Research continues to show that companies who invest in their own talent create greater returns for their shareholders. One example is...
Ineffective leaders believe wrong things about themselves, others, situations, and organisations.