Management

Posts and thoughts on people and business management

Managing Poor Performance 3
Reading Time: 4 minutes Earlier this year the Roffey Park Institute published their excellent annual report – The Management Agenda. A staggering 46% of UK managers reported that poor performance is not tackled at all well in their organisation, rising to 60% in Public Sector managers. So what do I mean by Poor Performance? Simply put, poor performance is the failure [...]

Stop the Rot – Managing Poor Performance ~ Part 1

 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Performance Management / Roffey Park Institute / The Management Agenda by
Culture AND Strategy for Success 1
Reading Time: 6 minutes How many times have you seen stories in the business press or seen first-hand within your business examples of failures and successes that have been put down to poor strategy OR the wrong culture? One company that suffered the fallout of the strategy/culture collision is Kodak. Kodak was not ambivalent [...]

Strategy AND Culture For Success

 in Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Amazon / Argos / Comet / Habitat / JJB / Kodak by
Pace in your Organisation, Execution
Reading Time: 5 minutes In part 3 of this 4 part series of blogs I covered the importance of PACE to improve organisational effectiveness and speed and specifically Communication: PACE = Planning + Alignment + Communication + Execution The fourth and final part of The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation [...]

The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation ...

 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Accountability / Decision Making / Delivery / Execution / Goals / Targets by
communication and collaboration 1
Reading Time: 6 minutes In part 2 of this four part series of blogs, I covered the importance of PACE to improve organisational effectiveness and speed and specifically Alignment: PACE = Planning + Alignment + Communication + Execution The third part of The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation will focus on Communication of your [...]

The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation ...

 in Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Collaboration / Communication / Culture / Inform / Inspire / Involve / Team by
Alignment 4
Reading Time: 6 minutes In part 1 of this four part series of blogs I covered the importance of PACE in your organisation to improve effectiveness and speed and specifically Planning: PACE = Planning + Alignment + Communication + Execution The second part of The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation will focus on [...]

The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation ...

 in Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Alignment / Business / Decision Making / Human Resources / Pace / Performance Management / Reward / Roles & Responsibilities by
Driving PACE in your organisation 3
Reading Time: 5 minutes Succeeding in today’s competitive business environment requires that your organisation be agile enough to respond quickly to internal and external change. To stay ahead, you have to explore new ways to grow your business – for example, by launching a new product or service or targeting a different marketplace. Speed [...]

The Need for Speed ~ Driving Pace in Your Organisation ...

 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Amazon / Audi / BHAG / Business / Goals / JFK / Markets / Nike / Pace / Plan; Planning / Stratgey by
Politics without the Politics 4
Reading Time: 7 minutes Office politics is a fact of company life. Wherever there are two or more people working together, there will be politics and there will be opportunity for conflict. However, destructive office politics can demoralise people in an organisation, hamper productivity, and increase turnover of good staff,. Much as you might [...]

Playing Politics without the Politics

 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People  tagged Network / Politically Savvy / Politics by
Keep People Inspired 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes Business is all about measurement. Peter Drucker’s quote – “What gets measured gets managed” is never more true than in today’s tough economic climate. The use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are at the heart of most high performing businesses. However, there is often one important KPI missing,  and that is [...]

THE Key Performance Indicator – Keep People Inspired

 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Teams  tagged Business / Communication / Development / Inspiration / Inspire / Leader / Motivation / Peter Drucker / Team by
Measuring Success
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the sixth and final part in the series of The Brand New, Brand You, I will be covering the last step in the START process in Brand New, Brand You, Test. So you’ve got to grips with Brand New, Brand You. You’ve developed your Brand – Your values and [...]

The Brand New, Brand You! ~ Part 6

 in Employability / Management / People  tagged 360 Feedback / Bit.ly / Brand / Brand You / Feedback / Google / Klout / Myers Briggs / Social Mention / Technorati / TweetDeck by