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The inability to tolerate feedback is an inability to allow yourself personal growth.
Across all my roles in leadership, I have found there are two distinctive types of staff members when it comes to feedback. There are those who see it as an opportunity for improvement and those who see it as a personal attack. This can be said for receiving and...
Is your organisation running a 21st-century business with 20th-century workplace practices?
Staff engagement is a broad topic and a major problem. It is stated each year there are over 39 million searches on the keywords "employee engagement." With such a level of interest there must be a fundamental reason why. The Gallup Management Journal (2012) claiming...
The Multifaceted Nature of Organisations
An organisation is like a diamond; both are multifaceted and their characteristics determine their value. In my opinion, the qualities which make a diamond analogous to an organisation are durability, robustness and enduring value. This can be summarised as...
Avoiding the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Change is an inevitable phenomenon in life and if we are capable of embracing, and manoeuvring through it, we are usually equipped for the journey. Perhaps John F. Kennedy best captured this when he stated ‘Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past...
Employing the right staff is part of a good business strategy.
Having an engaged workforce with pride in their organisation and a strong belief in their work is a clear point of difference. Their attitude is reflected throughout the organisation, with clients or customers and stakeholders. The key is recruitment. Recruit the...
A real issue no organisation wants to acknowledge.
Within the Aviation Industry, there is an increasing level of reports regarding significant events that were perceivably the result of a mental health issue. We have seen the global media interviewing senior airline executives, ex pilots and so called 'experts' in...
Are Your Values in Conflict With Your Organisation’s?
Our values underwrite our motives, and are, in essence, what drive, inspire and get us out of bed in the mornings. So how about your organisation’s values? Do they drive you; inspire you and insight the same passion as your personal values? We know organisational...
Your organization’s vision, what does it really mean to you?
An Organisation’s vision is often times left unspoken at staff inductions, team meetings, senior leadership gatherings and/or board meetings, leaving us to question its purpose and significance. However, this string of words is in fact, an organisation’s commitment to...
Today marks the day …
Today marks the day in 1995 when we officially recognised women’s rights, and gender equality within society. Today is a day that should be no different to any other day, where we recognise women’s Human Rights as being the heart of sustainable development. Women...
Innovation – the sustainment of the employee into the future.
There are many conversations about multigenerational workforces and the likely impact on organisational outcomes. However there is a far greater challenge looming for all of us; automation. In 2014, Google chairman Eric Schmidt stated the next two decades will be...
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