Remote Working Policies
Setting boundaries will see some employee attrition, but those who remain will feel a heightened sense of trust and an improved quality of employment.
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Essays
Everything published, most recent first. Two a week: a standalone piece, and a reflection on that week's conversation.
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Minding the Capability Gap
Once the capability gap is closed, instead of feeling fear and frustration about not knowing how to perform a role or achieve an outcome, staff are empowered to deliver value and be rewarded for their achievement.
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A Challenging Time for Talent Management
In an era of heightened employee mobility, hybrid work environments, and a skills shortage, the idea of matching great talent with critical roles may not be new, but it is more essential than ever.
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Recovering From The Great Attrition
The challenge for managers is that we are no longer comparing apples with apples. Instead, we must leverage the power of personas to better understand the individuals that make up our teams.
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Mental Health As A Strategic Issue
While the overall numbers of people affected by mental health issues is a cause for concern, perhaps as alarming are the number of firms or individual managers who engaging in well-being washing.
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Be Bold With Efficiency Aspirations
By tackling some of the common problems, teams and organisations will be well placed to achieve aspirational efficiency objectives. When this happens, we can get one of those virtuous circles in which the approach sticks and compounds over the years.
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Anchoring Teams Through Transformation
This approach yields good, if imperfect, OKRs while advancing real management: pushing teams beyond comfort to learn, improve, and explore—driving meaningful transformation and unlocking organisational value.
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Sustaining Value in the Transformation Life Cycle
No fixed set of actions can define, measure, or achieve success. Thus, trying to make transformation a tick box affair is to setup an organisation for failure. This is because successful transformation is as much about the process as it is about the outcome.
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Enabling Managers in a GenMe Landscape
Providing more structure, not less, in both the daily tasks of employees and their perceptions about career pathways, offers the strongest viable path to improved staff retention and higher team performance.
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Challenges for Leadership when Managing GenMe
By reframing the leadership models presented, propositions for managers can be advanced to enable better leadership of people with GenMe attitudes.
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Leading GenMe
Given the obvious dichotomy in this approach to work generations, the practical implications for management are that the leadership theories many have encountered will struggle to provide solutions when it comes to developing coherent teams.
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Great Managers Free Up Their Time
Managers often fail to build autonomous teams,keeping themselves in a job to solve for problems which should have long since been put behind the organisation.
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Thunderous Ambivalence
Because being off the grid is next to impossible in many societies, it is tempting to give up and proclaim 'I have nothing to hide'.
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Defund the Police, Yet AgainOpinion
No matter which way you look at it, police popularity seems to be at something of a low ebb with even the usually excoriated politicians enjoying something of a bump in the polls when compared to the men and women in blue.
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Epochs Within Epochs
While our own short lives may lack the eternality of the Holy Spirit we can transcend events by our choices. Choices which, religious or not, have deep and long lasting moral implications.
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