“The bottom line for leaders is, if they do not become conscious of the cultures in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage them.”—Edgar Schein Here’s the truth. The majority of businesses do not have a firm grasp of their culture. Others don’t even consider it worth assessing the culture. According to Skip Richard,…
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Human Performance Improvement Can Transform Businesses. A small business should consider the tremendous financial impact that employees will have on the organizational bottom line. Employees are one of the leading expenses for a small business and should therefore be set up to succeed based on these factors – focus, capability, time well managed, high productivity,…
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“For any individual company, determining the purpose of its purpose is fundamentally a business decision and must be anchored in strategy. Corporate purpose requires clarity about the trade-offs being made and should result in something that is internally coherent. “ Jonathan Knowles, B. Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove, and Alison James| HBR Knowing the purpose of…
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According to a 2015 Harvard Business School research, nearly fifty percent of employees who encountered disrespect at work preferred to expend less effort and minimize their hours spent working. So how therefore can leaders verify their perceptions of their company’s culture? There are factors to consider when distinguishing an actual toxic work culture. “Pinpointing the…
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Business process optimisation streamlines operations in an effort to increase productivity and achieve strategic goals. Based on MIT Sloan’s survey of 370 business leaders from Consumer Products Companies: 98% consider transformation a priority. 86% believe they must transform to be future-ready. 85% already have transformation efforts underway. These companies have these issues at hand: Lacking…
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“Whether it’s caused by culture clash, cultural inertia, or total toxic collapse, broken culture syndrome can sink an organisation. But there’s a cure if leaders take action”. –adapted from Douglas Ready| Does your company suffer from broken culture syndrome?| mitsloan.mit.edu There are three common triggers of a broken culture syndrome: culture clash disorder, cultural inertia,…
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“The go-to response for organisational issues is typically some form of reactionary training. The mantra goes like this: Design the training. Deliver it. Move on.” Sue Bingham. Training has long been regarded as the universal panacea for all performance deficiencies. However, training alone won’t solve your company’s problems. Training on its own rarely solves the…
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There are a few key misunderstandings that make the difference between actual psychological safety, and psychological safety as so many organisations practice it. 1) Safety, not Comfort Leaders do not protect their team from discomfort but to protect them from harm. They help motivate and push through the discomfort and harness it for growth. 2)…
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We have been shaken by a once-in-a-century pandemic, particularly in the way we perform our jobs. However, we believe it also presents a great opportunity to do things better. Globally, the pandemic compelled businesses and employees to re-examine and restructure how to live and work while re-imagining some ways of working that were operating pre-pandemic.…
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“When you do your team’s work for them, rather than guiding them and allowing them to grow, no one wins. Their performance will continue to be mediocre, and eventually, you will be left with a group of people who can’t function at all without your intervention,” says author Martin G. Moore. Gaining the self-control to lead rather…
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