Over the last several years, wellbeing has been a significant focus within health and safety legislatures, especially mental health and wellbeing. Businesses with large mobile workforces, like the mining or …
Are You Preparing for Change?
Individually, and for our businesses, change is just around the corner, or it is happening right now. We could try and put our head in the sand and pretend it …
Are You Reaching Toward Your Potential?
Last time I shared on the habits we are forming at this time in isolation, and the challenges in forming and breaking bad habits when it comes to an end. …
What are Your Current Habits
We are finding ourselves in unusual times; working from home, out-of-work waiting for new opportunities, waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. Our days are different from what we were …
Developing others
I am currently in the stages of writing a book on leadership traits. One characteristic I have identified is Developing Others. Many businesses say leadership development is important, but this …
Your Crew – Competent, or Not?
Last month I raised the question as to whether the Captain (=CEO/MD) was just steering the ship, or instead charting the course for the business to follow. I left a …
Are you Steering the Ship or Charting the course?
I love the analogy of comparing the course of a business to a journey, and especially an ocean-going journey. When I look at the “leadership” of an organisation, I always …
What are the “Values” (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed how I had recently observed some organisations revising their values based on the need to feel fresh or because someone external to the business thought …
What are the “Values” (Part 1)
Just recently I have seen a few organisations going through the process of revising their overarching vision and their values. These organisations have typically been in operation for more than …
Tools, Strategies & Methodologies to Improve Business Processes (Part 1)
Last month I discussed what I observed during a recent visit to a Chinese manufacturing business in Guangzhou. The business was successful in many ways, with a strong focus on …