Let Your Team Do Their Job
“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 […]
How to Clean Up a Toxic Culture
In the experience of author Jeremy Andrus (of Traeger-cooking company), the first step in trying to solve a cultural problem is to eliminate the majority owner. Meet with the top people in the company to get a sense of their willingness to change. Conduct a culture survey to gather qualitative and quantitative data and allow […]
SMES Staff and Customer Worries
The surge in COVID has increased not just staffing concerns but customer worries too, according to a study released by ScotPac on SME Growth Index research poll. The survey is Australia’s longest-running, in-depth research on small business growth prospects. “Staff issues were nominated as a key concern by almost half of the business owners. They […]
WIN Support for Flexible Work
“Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. Thanks to the internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. “-Amy Gallo More managers and organisations are seeing the benefits of non-traditional schedules. When people are given the flexibility they need, they meet goals more […]
Boost Retention Through 6 Strategies
“There is a widening mismatch between the job environment, employees want — and now expect — and the one their organisations have. Employers need to recognise that it takes significantly longer to recruit someone than it does for them to give their two-week notice and depart. The solution, then, is to immediately bolster retention while […]
Getting Your Company’s Mission to Work
“Making a company purpose come to life is an arduous journey that requires a multi-pronged and sustained approach. The main reason for the gap between intention and reality is that it’s hard to translate the company purpose — however well-defined and inspiring it may be — into how the company operates on a daily basis. […]
Creating Psychological Safety Among High Performing Teams
“Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google knows that the highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. “ (Laura Delizonna) Increase psychological safety among your team by replicating the steps that Santagata took: Taking conflict as a collaborator. We hate […]
Winning Your Performance Review
Adapted from: Your Performance Review Went Really Wrong | HBR | Shyamli Rathore Many of us let our jobs define our self-worth. Any negative messages we receive about our performance hugely impact our self-esteem. This is not an uncommon feeling. “In a performance review, while you can’t control what your boss will say to […]
The Connection Between Strategy and Culture
Adapted from: Strategy& | Mastering the connection between strategy and culture| David Lancefield “The goal should be to master the connectivity between strategy and culture. They both should be anchored by capabilities—the “key activities in which you must invest disproportionately and perform distinctively to underpin your theory of competitive advantage,” according to author and CEO advisor […]
Capability-Driven Strategy
Adapted from: Strategy & Business | Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi “In a survey of 500 senior Executives around the world, about 80 percent said that their overall strategy was not well understood, even within their own company.” This problem arose from the way these companies are managed. There are significant gaps between strategy and execution. This […]
A GUIDE TO OPEN STRATEGY
A GUIDE TO OPEN STRATEGY Authors, Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen | Adapted from HBR “Strategy is developed in three distinct phases, each of them requiring a different solution to get the balance between openness and secrecy. Whether a company wants to open up in order to determine […]
What, Who, How, & Why of Strategising
Adapted from: HBR | Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why | Michael D. Watkins “A business strategy is a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organisation, generates a desired pattern of decision making.” Michael D Watkins, What is a business strategy and what is not? When it comes […]