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...
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).
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...
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...
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...
The Heart of Leadership - 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 influence...
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.
Don’t send your employees on training programmes
Coming from a trainer and a coach who has delivered training programmes for the last 17 years, this headline is a strange statement. You could even say it lacks credibility as my colleagues and I have been and plan to continue delivering training...
So much communication from leaders fails completely to achieve its objective. We explore what causes this failure and how to really engage our people with great communication.
Why bother with a vision? Sadly most company visions don’t inspire teams, leaders need to do better with vision to really engage their people. Learn why it is so important then transform your leadership by using vision techniques.