Leadership Development: the key to empowering your employees

Are we looking at employee engagement the wrong way?  In their efforts to help employees become more engaged with their workplace, many senior teams tend to run large scale engagement building activities.  By putting these type of generic events first, they are...
Indicators Your Employees Do Not Feel Empowered & Causal Factors

Indicators Your Employees Do Not Feel Empowered & Causal Factors

So many organisations say they do employee engagement.  They have that box ticked because they ran a survey within the past 18 months and, sure, they do employee engagement events like beer and pizza, Corporate Social Responsibility and other such activities.  Yet,...
Developing Future Leaders

Developing Future Leaders

Talent management is the key ‘front of mind’ topic for practically every senior management team and every HR team in almost every organisation.  Everybody desperately wants to identify and develop future leaders to ensure the long-term success of their organisation. ...
Re-engage With Your Job: 5 tips

Re-engage With Your Job: 5 tips

What does it take to re-engage with your job?  What does it take to re-engage with your employer? Most organisations struggle with this challenge.  They roll out various engagement strategies every year with limited impact on engagement levels.  A quick look at the...
Leading Empowered Employees: a practical approach (part 1)

Leading Empowered Employees: a practical approach (part 1)

Leading empowered employees is the stuff of nightmares for many managers.  Many focus on how empowered employees can be ‘managed’ or ‘controlled’.  Fear seems to rise from the prospect of not getting the tasks completed because of uncontrollable innovation and team...