“Talent consists of those individuals who can make a difference to organisational performance, either through their immediate contribution or in the longer term by demonstrating the highest levels of potential” – CIPD Talent management is selecting, training, developing, retaining, rewarding, and helping employees. One can achieve ROI by implementing talent management with strategies using a…

“Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything for better or for worse”– Simon Sinek The Leadership Reformation suggests that toxic leaders create toxic workplaces with toxic cultures. Leaders are responsible for the teams, even if the cause is a toxic fellow employee. It’s their job to correct their members’ behaviour…

Myth 1: Strategy is about the long term There are indeed industries where the competition dynamic remains unchanged for a long time. Leaders who stick to their strategy through thick and thin follow this process. However, if you think of strategy as a long-term commitment, you forget that strategy is about the fundamentals of how…

Organisations have been spending a lot of time, money and effort to improve leadership capabilities and foster new leaders—Yet some still fail. Here are a few reasons why leadership development fails: Poor/No clarity on the “end” or outcome (Why this training)? – “We fear what we do not understand”. Organisations can adjust to this paradigm…

A metaphor is often used to explain something that is complex or misunderstood. Here is a useful metaphor to explain Culture. Culture is like the oil in a smooth running engine. If the oil is of the right viscosity, with no contamination, and operating at the right temperature; then it will flow well and your…

By Dan Denison, PhD, Chairman, Denison Consulting and Robert Hallagan, Vice Chairman, Korn Ferry Directors often comment that culture is hard to define and hard to measure. Nevertheless, every director has the responsibility to take the time to study the concept and become a subject matter expert. The following case study shows how one company…