by Graeme Codrington | Jul 27, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
One should not indulge too often nor too deeply in “I told you so” moments. But as news that Verizon has acquired Yahoo broke, I couldn’t help but think back to a post our team wrote in March 2013, a few weeks after Marissa Mayer began her tenure as...
by Raymond de Villiers | Jul 22, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
By Nikki Bush and Raymond de Villiers Statistics across the board increasingly indicate that people are disengaged at work. They come to work and do their time. They turn up but they are not invested in what they do. Talent engagement strategies within organisations...
by Graeme Codrington | Jul 17, 2016 | Archive, Clients Feedback and Media, Leadership, Organisational Development
Almost every client I’ve ever worked with has confessed that they don’t do meetings as well as they would like to. I think this is a universal complaint. We could – and should – do meetings better. But thinking about doing meetings better is...
by Raymond de Villiers | Jun 27, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
The Issue We need to redefine talent and high-performance for our modern world of work. 30 years ago the most important people in our organisations were defined by the amount and type of information they were custodians of. Information was power, and those with the...
by Keith Coats | Jun 14, 2016 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
The Problem: Boring, predictable meetings Your team meetings are the same old, same old. The routine has become somewhat boring, predictable and dull. This is impacting on the content and discussion and something needs to be shaken-up. You sense that a kind...
by Aiden Choles | Jun 6, 2016 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
One of the things that gets in the way of fostering a healthy culture in large organisations is the very thing we implement to address culture: annual staff surveys. Although well-intentioned (we do after all want to know how our people feel about their organisational...