High Performing Teams If there’s a subject that will get the good people in H.R. excited it is high performing teams. They are the holy grail of human resource management. Everybody wants a high performing team. Conventional wisdom tells you to get the “best-of-breed”. Find the most capable sales men, ops guys, marketeers and technical wizards and […]
Centre of Excellence or Management Folly?
The centre of excellence How many times have you heard the claim “We are building a centre of excellence”? Or, even more triumphant, “We are a centre of excellence!” It is great management speak. It shows strategic drive and direction. Every thrusting young manager wants a centre of excellence, why wouldn’t they? There are a […]
Organisations Create Culture
Organisation noun /ɔːɡ(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ A group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department. The way activities are managed and completed. synonyms: company, firm, concern, operation, corporation, institution, group, establishment Culture noun /ˈkʌltʃə/ The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. The way we do things round […]
The World’s Most Useless Document
The org chart When you join a new business the people in H.R. will give you something like this: As good corporate citizens we all seize this as one of the most important pieces of paper we will be given. It tells us how the concern works. It is critical information, it tells us how […]
Do You Know Where You Are Going?
Stating the bleeding obvious… When I was in my 20’s I went on a course. The instructor put up a slide. It looked like this: His point was simple. To be successful create alignment. Make sure everybody is pulling in the same direction. It was such an obvious point that I wondered why on earth […]