After two years of disruption, further shifts in remote work and our lives have emerged. There’s been: the rise of individualism and independence bringing out new confidence to show up as themselves at work. (Fjord Trends 2022) hybrid employment arrangements placing more emphasis on staff being able to work remotely and maintain productivity and service delivery continued challenges to organisations due to Omicron leading to […]
Planning for a best People Strategy is essential. Your business strategy amounts to no more than words on a page if you don’t have “the right people in the right seat on the bus”. All elements of your employee life cycle must be linked: from attraction through to talent management, leadership development, and ongoing performance management. There is a great reward too in doing this. […]
People development is key to a successful people strategy in all organisations. Many managers out there have likely experienced the unsavoury situation of managing someone who believes their performance is terrific when it’s just mediocre at best. Recent studies in performance management have identified that the “underperformer” is a frequent and draining problem. But what contributes to the perception an individual has about their performance? […]
You need to attract and retain the best talent for your organisation and adopt a coaching culture to ensure you win. However, with the momentum of vaccine rollout in Australia and as the economy continues to rebound, research tells us the labour market will get tighter. For this reason, this situation will result in the war for talent becoming more likely to happen. Hybrid work […]
People management skills are one of the essential soft leadership skills a leader should possess. While working from home in some form is accepted will remain after COVID, managing teams remotely has, for the contemporary leader, added the need to develop new skills. Now may be an opportunity for your business to increase focus on this area with employees recognising the value of these skills. […]
VUCA leadership is paramount, with the world facing an uncertain future today. The VUCA acronym (Volatile, Uncertain Complex, Ambiguous) has been around since 1987. It was the US Army War College’s response to the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s. No one was forecasting Covid-19, even in January 2020. Without a doubt, it has been the most disruptive events in our lifetimes. It […]
Better sales staff equals more sales. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Increasing the productivity of your salespeople, however, is a complex task fraught with misunderstanding. Finding high performing staff involves a specific hiring approach which targets those with precisely the right attributes for the job in hand. Once you have the right players, it doesn’t stop there. It’s a question of matching them to the […]
Thanks https://unsplash.com/@davidclode for this amazing image Practical ways to adapt your approach Many of us can easily recall precisely when key events occurred around the world and in our own lives. It is fair to say that the current pandemic is one of those events and is well and truly etched in our memories for as long as we shall live. In March 2020 you […]
There is no doubt that businesses need high performing teams, but how do you develop a high performing team? And just how clear are you on whether you need a team or a group? What’s a team? Joanne Richardson (2010:86) defines a real team as: “A group of people working together in an organisation who are committed to achieving clear team-level objectives upon which they […]
Humans by nature encounter situations in which conflict occurs – it’s an essential ingredient for resolving a problem. In a workplace environment where supervisors, subordinates, external stakeholders, clients and customers are all required to make collective decisions on a regular basis, conflict is bound to arise every once in a while. Conflict occurs in the workplace for many reasons. Perhaps a manager’s feedback isn’t received […]