In most organisations, power is seen to rest in the hands of managers. The more senior the manager, the more power. Yet in reality, power rests with each and every person in a team. Sometimes exercising that power can have
Happily the sparkle of the Springboks’ World Cup win has not quite faded. But before it does, there’s an important employee engagement lesson to be learned. In the grand arena of business, every day can feel like a hard-fought match. The
Human beings are weird. You know this already, but here’s where we’re going today: The attention of most employees and leaders has an uncanny knack of gravitating towards the darker shades of life, rather than basking in sunlit positivity. Negative “buzz” It
In his 1988 book, Professor Jerry Harvey of George Washington University developed a parable of real life to describe how people believe they have reached agreement. The story is about four adults – a married couple and the wife’s parents –
Many organisations engage in strategic planning processes, part of which involves the identification or confirmation of ‘values statements’. This segment of the planning process is usually well canvassed – with lots of discussion about what is really wanted in the organisation, and