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27 Oct

5 Things You Can Do To Lead Workplace Wellbeing In Your Team

In Chris Atkinson, Team

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...

16 Oct

Celebration Grid – A Versatile Team Tool

In Team, Training

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...

09 Oct

Four Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams

In Leadership

Employers thinking about allowing — and even encouraging — employees to work remotely are inundated with conflicting information these days.

02 Oct

How Your Business Can Adapt To Millennials

In Business, Chris Atkinson, Leadership

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...

27 Sep

5 Steps to Building a Successful Talent Pipeline

In Leadership, Talent

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...

11 Sep

5 Deadly Beliefs That Limit Leaders

In Leadership, Personal Development

Ineffective leaders believe wrong things about themselves, others, situations, and organisations.

01 Sep

Is Humility a Leadership Weakness?

In Leadership, Thor Olafsson

Just over 20 years ago I was sat in my office talking to a consultant who was helping me with my first real management job. Midst in our conversation, a coworker of mine entered the office to provide me with information she though was of importance. We exchanged a...

17 Aug

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR

In HR, Paul Tuck, Strategic Leadership Authors

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

In HR, Paul Tuck, Strategic Leadership Authors, Strategy

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

In Leadership

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...