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Leadership Challenges – How Values Impact The Bottom Line

Event for NW Business Leaders Leadership Challenges As We Emerge From The Recession - How your values impact the bottom line If you're a CEO, MD, HRD or FD based in the North West of England and you're seeking any of the following in your organisation :- - A breakthrough in ...

Developing Your Organisation’s Culture – 7 Tips

Consciously developing your organizational culture is more important than ever. At the end of the day if you aren’t developing it, then it’s developing you. People are seeking to work for a business where they can experience fulfilment and authenticity. Organizations which treat their employees well have experienced a better retention ...

Be Yourself

How much of yourself do you bring to work each day? This happened to be one of the questions I asked a client recently. The answer wasn't anywhere near 100% or all of me. So we explored the bit that didn't come to work and why. Years ago a colleague I worked ...

What do you make people feel?

I love the BMW Joy advert. From a branding perspective they've summarised what they believe they're about. What I really like is the bit where they say... 'we realised what you make people feel is as important as the thing you make' or words to that effect. I even spoke back ...

The Effects of Politics on Job Satisfaction and Performance

Came across this great piece from Bret L Simmons blog . Here it is......"A recent article in the Academy of Management Journal provides continued strong support for something I have said a lot here about the relationship between job satisfaction, commitment and employee performance, and adds to that by showing how ...

Self Image = Results

Your self image is determining your results. Now maybe you've never seen your identity as directly linked to the results you've achieved or will go on to achieve. In essence we can't outperform our sense of self. Well you can but only for a short while and then, like an ...

Company Purpose and Passionate Employees – the imact on staff and bottom line

A company with a well-defined purpose and passionate employees who share it, can unleash a massive boost of employee enthusiasm that can only be born when purpose and passion align. Unfortunately, this is a ‘free’ resource that most companies are not tapping into nearly enough. Stephen is among a growing number ...

Are you fed up, disillusioned and ready to take your career to the next level?

Pretty much everyone we know has at some point, if not several, becomes disillusioned with their career or job. This dissatisfaction can get you down, especially if others around you are feeling the same. This can feel even worse now, as we have the news of layoff's and ...

What you pay attention to determines your business results

Every year, season and day is an opportunity full of new beginnings, potential and promise; or doom and gloom depending on what you choose to pay attention to. Right now it is sad that companies are going into receivership, even sadder for the people who are facing uncertainty or job ...

Is Greed Ever Good? – Remuneration and Motivation in an Organisation

The business culture of the 80's put a clear emphasis on personal reward on the basis that highly motivated individuals could transform organisations and societies. This continued until the late 90's when we began to see some companies traumatised and bankrupted by the inappropriate use of remuneration as a motivator. ...