Broadly speaking we all want the same thing out of our careers: a great job doing what we love to do while being recognised and rewarded for it. That is undoubtedly what you are seeking for yourself. And hopefully what your employer also wants for you. The fact is it’s up to you to make
Employee career aspirations are an important consideration for talent management. As this great quote says: “Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”Howard Thurman There are few organisations who would argue with the need for retaining and developing talent.
Are you responsible for leadership training within your organisation? If so, you have one of the toughest jobs going in this difficult climate. With the highly competitive nature of business today, organisations are holding everyone to higher standards. This means that business leaders are being pressured to deliver results – and HR/Learning & Development Departments are
A key leadership skill is the ability to commit to personal and business goals. We are now well into the third week of January and those of us who like to set goals for the calendar year will have them well defined and established. So let me tell you about one of mine. On 22
Leadership is a huge subject surrounded by numerous theories. A recent search on Amazon revealed 160,194 books that have been written about the subject. That’s a lot of books! And a very long leadership development programme if you were to try and include all that they contain. So how do you determine the focus and
In today’s tough economic circumstances, business leaders are seeking competitive advantage through the best use of their people more than ever before. In a time when the job market is uncertain many leaders may feel that supporting the career management of their staff is not a priority, seeing it as something that is personal to
Last week I wrote about the leadership lessons we can learn from the Great North Run. I haven’t been running much this week but I have been enjoying the post-race footage in the papers, on the TV and on running websites and Facebook. One of the things that has struck me is that it’s not
Yesterday I ran the Great North Run for the tenth time. I don’t say that to boast – although I am quite proud. Every single run was hard. I’m not a natural athlete. If I’m a natural anything its a natural party girl who loves to eat good food and drink great wine. I didn’t
Effective leaders and managers need to have enthusiastic followers. Since people are your key source of competitive advantage, you need every single employee to be fully committed to taking the company forward and doing everything they can to make it a success in the future. Unfortunately, the recession forced many companies to alter their course.
Most leaders recognise that people are the key to business success. In fact, research by the Hay Group has shown that engaging and enabling employees boosts performance by 15-30%. So that makes leaders even more concerned about how they retain their most talented employees now that there is hope that the economy is recovering. A
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