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 […]