Our conventional wisdom about teams are about to change radically because everything we previously knew, or thought we knew, about team work have all been quite incomplete. What would you say makes a cohesive, effective and high performing team? I'm sure most of us would start to think about the following: - Clearly defined goals - [...]
Many of us are already or are thinking of writing down our new year resolutions for 2016. But before you dive head-on into writing your resolutions for 2016, I would like to suggest that you take a couple of minutes to think back and ask yourself this question: What have I learnt in 2015 that I [...]
Looking to improve employee motivation, engagement and fire-up the passion of your employees? Over the last decade, a lot of things have been said about employee engagement, motivation and passion, and most leader know the "Whats" and the "Whys". However, most are still in the dark about HOW to actually engage, motivate and inspire your employees. [...]
The big boys have done it. Juniper, Adobe, Deloitte, Accenture and Cigna have all done it. And even General Electric (GE) - the one that popularised Performance Ratings - have all thrown Performance Ratings out the window. So why are all these large organisations ditching performance ratings? The more important question you should be asking [...]
In almost every investment brochure, you will see a disclaimer that says: “Past performance is no guarantee of future results". However most investors (or so they call themselves) completely ignore this disclaimer. Similarly in the world of hiring and recruiting, most hiring managers ignore the fact that past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Performance-based [...]
It’s that time of the year again when performance appraisals are done, budgets are set and strategies are put in place. This is the time of the year when you identify the weakest links in your team and identify the individuals who have not performed up-to-mark and decide what to do with them. However, not all [...]
Research has found that people have a natural aversion to idleness: we’ll go out of our way to stay busy, even if we have to invent things to do. But being too busy can be counterproductive. Studies have also shown that we have a bias toward action: when faced with a problem, we prefer to act, [...]
The measure of friendship on employee engagement has been touted by Gallup for the longest time. In their employee engagement surveys, one of the questions employees have to answer is: “Do you have a best friend at work?" The question is: Does the measure of friendship determine the level of employee engagement? The answer I believe [...]
In an HBR article titled The Big Idea: 21st-Century Talent Spotting, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, senior advisor at global executives search firm Egon Zehnder and the author of “It’s Not the How or the What but the Who???, says the first era of talent spotting leaders were done based on their physical abilities. For instance, if you wanted [...]
I recently came across a very interesting article in the Harvard Business Review. In this article, the author reveals that when companies hire lower-wage workers, the productivity of both its current employees who are paid higher wages and the new workers who are paid lower wages, are negatively impacted. This leads to an overall decrease in [...]
