There are lots of organisations today that focus on developing leaders. It’s a great concept, and a wonderful thing to do, but there needs to be a balance between different types of development opportunities.
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Planning as a two way process
Lately I’ve noticed an increasing trend of planning in isolation. That really doesn’t work.
Read More Management, PlanningLeverage your talent pool — why you should use your own staff over consultants
There are few people in the world that know more about your business than the people in it. Your employees live each day in your business, they know it inside out and back to front. Consultants don’t. However, it isn’t always correct to use internal staff. Firstly, the problem you are trying to solve needs to […]
Read More Management, TalentWhat do your customers want? Just ask them!
Do you want to know what your customers want? I don’t mean guess at what you think they might want, but what they actually want.
Read More Customer engagement, Product developmentHuman capital
Generally I’m not a big fan of the term “human capital”. It seems to objectify the people in a given organisation, placing them in the same category as financial or other non-human resources. I find that to be counter-productive to employee engagement and motivation.
Read More HR, ManagementDo it differently
So many companies these days develop products that mimic or mirror the functionality of already existent products. It’s as though they are trying to catch the wave of success by screaming “me-too!” Truly successful companies, and individuals, differentiate their offerings. They make their product or services stand out. For example, Alan Weiss made a brilliant […]
Read More Product developmentPlanning to fail
Lately I have seen a large number of people who just don’t seem to understand the need to plan. For some reason, people expect that things will just the happen way they want. In some cases, they don’t even know what it is that they want!
Read More Management, PlanningStrategic human resource management and knowledge management
Knowledge Management and Strategic HRM are too often separated. This creates a problem where strategic planning for HRM doesn’t take into account the knowledge and intellectual property needs of the organisation.
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