Letz Create the Future of Work
Episode Title The future of work is here now. Learn how to move forward. Episode subtitle Exploring what the future looks like for job seekers and employers. Tags and keywords Future of work, career success, career coaching Description In this podcast we explore the future of work – the technologies,
Leadership for Distributed Teams
Leaders everywhere are grappling with their ability to be effective as more of their people wake up to a new 9 to 5. Despite the challenges, working from home has become for thousands of organisations a bitter sweet reality. It means they at least business continues and their people still
Why We Need Poetry in the Workplace
Why are some physicians including poetry as part of their treatment of patients? Because they know people need to participate in their own healing. Intimidating medical terminology and clinical diagnoses can actually get in the way of the relationship between doctors and patients.fMRI scans show poetry has an immediate impact
How Are Your (Still) Managing Performance?
If you are like most people, you don’t enjoy the performance management process, but you do it because you know its importance for ensuring the success of the business. Typically, performance management means doing three things: Ensuring people know what the business needs from them, and setting goals to make
Creating a Sense of Ownership in Your People
When staff feel a sense of ownership at work that leads to greater productivity while reducing the efforts needed to manage them, it should be something on every business owner’s priority list. There are many ideas around that suggest how a sense of ownership can be developed in staff, however,
Leadership Is Dead. Long Live Leadership.
We have long accepted that leadership is the pivotal ingredient in any successful enterprise. There are few who would argue against the importance of good leaders. When asked, most executives will name leadership as the significant factor in resolving their organisational priorities. No one ever questions the belief or the
Where HR Belongs In the Digital Age
Organisations are undergoing the most significant changes in a century and in the midst of it, HR is most noticeable by its silence. This ‘significant change’ is, of course, the digital transformation. Much of it is tied up in technology: cloud computing, big data analytics and automation, for instance. The
The Rules for Success in the Digital Century
Have you updated the way you manage business for the 21st century yet? There are many names to describe the new business environment: digital era, information age, collaborative economy, sharing economy, to name a few. The issue is not what you call it; it’s what you do about it. You
Talent: What REALLY Matters
By Geoff Callard au.linkedin.com/pub/geoff-callard/7/160/9 The ‘Talent Management’ industry is a recent phenomenon – and it does not bear up under scrutiny. There is no evidence to suggest that it helps organisations succeed and it ignores the need to take a deeper, systemic look at the best ways to develop people into consistently high performers. […]
Understanding Gen Y Part 2: Why Employers Need to Love Them
Businesses globally are unprepared to face the challenges of the changing business environment, as they struggle to manage the demands of Millennial (also known as Gen Y) employees and adapt to disruptions in labour markets. This was the finding from a Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey released earlier in 2014. Gen Y are frequently […]
