Are You Unintentionally Throttling Feedback?
Feedback is uncomfortable—most people avoid it. We see it often. When asked to provide peer feedback in presentation skills workshops, the focus steers to what went well out of fear for being deemed critical, missing the opportunity to help each other improve. In teams, people go quiet. Especially around their manager. Not because they don’t […]
When Managers Fail, Business Fails
There’s one set of statistics that consistently makes business leaders sit up and pay attention — because they reveal just how much leadership impacts the bottom line. According to Gallup, CEB Global, and Gartner respectively: These issues are not abstract — they each increase cost, reduce profit, weaken culture, and undermine sustainability, predictability, and long-term […]
Build Future-Ready Teams: The Power of Profiling and Skills Mapping
Bad hires and weak succession pipelines are expensive — not just financially, but emotionally and culturally, for the organisation and the individual. Every time a new appointment doesn’t work out, you lose time, energy, and trust. Not only do you start over again, hoping the next one will be a better fit, but so does […]
The Growing Relevance of Influencing Skills
Studies reveal that employees spend much more of their work time engaging in persuasion-related tasks than previously thought, underscoring its enterprise-wide significance. In To Sell is Human Dan Pink writes “People are now spending about 40 percent of their time at work engaged in non-sales selling—persuading, influencing, and convincing others in ways that don’t involve anyone […]
The Inclusive Workplace
A staggering number of Post Covid reports refer to tired and burned-out employees. What will make people want to return to the work place? How do we put: the zing back into workplaces? the excitement back into employees? the fulfilment back into jobs? Start by making your […]
How to Draw a Line in the Sand
It often takes a disaster before we stop and ask: “How could that have been prevented?” And: “How do we prevent this from happening again?” As our country struggles with so many challenges – including state capture, we contemplate how we got to this place. Would you have the courage to be a whistle blower? […]
Succession Planning: A Threat Or A Promise?
Succession Planning: A Threat or a Promise? When the King dies the King’s heir inevitably takes over and rules. Since the King seldom survived much over 50 in the old days, this was generally a sound plan. The Prince would still be young, strong and, one would hope, clear thinking. If the King had no […]