Management skills are critical for all organisations. But how do you develop them? This post describes my experience of developing management skills for a technology start up. Avanade was a global start-up formed as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. The core purpose of the company was to provide business technology solutions and managed
Are you interested in developing future leaders. in your organisation? Then maybe you’ll be interested in my experience of developing future leaders for the Business Process Management (BPM) division of Accenture UK The BPM division was responsible for providing outsourced IT services to a wide range of clients from BP in Aberdeen to the Stock
As a profession, HR spends a fair time agonising over how to raise our profile as a strategic partner and add value to the business. The accepted wisdom is that we need to “sell the benefit” of HR and the initiatives designed to get the best out of people. But I am inclined to disagree.
It’s time to accelerate leadership development in organisations. My experience tells me that people no longer have the time or inclination for long drawn-out leadership development programmes and time spent away from the office on courses. With business changing daily you can’t afford for your best people to be away from the business for extended
In my last blog post “Case Study: How a Coaching Style of Leadership Can Help Employees Take Ownership & Responsibility”, I described a Solutions Focus (SF) Coaching for Leaders Programme I am delivering that is helping employees take ownership and responsibility. The case study featured in a presentation at the Coaching and at Work Conference:
The greatest fear of anyone responsible for a training budget is that they will invest a significant amount in a development programme for limited or no benefit. As I said in an earlier post, leadership is about what people say and do and how that behaviour effectively influences the behaviour of others. So, if a
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
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
Performance feedback. Performance appraisal. Performance review. No matter what you call it, managing performance is key to being successful as an organisation. That’s why one organisation asked for our help. In 2008, a Health Care organisation was striving to develop an internal performance culture. The organisation had designed a new Performance and Development Review (PDR) process
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