This month I have been explaining the benefits of proactively managing your employees engagement as the recession begins to lift.
You can read the whole article here in the HR Networking Magazine.
Kim
Posts Tagged ‘Leadership Development’
Proactively managing employee engagement
Monday, July 26th, 2010Self awareness is the route to personal development?
Friday, June 11th, 2010In the development and coaching work we do we often use diagnostic tools to help individuals and teams understand their style and preferences and identify ways that these natural attributes can be used to improve performance.
We will soon become licensed to add another tool to our portfolio – Insights Discovery Profiling. These tools have been developed based upon the work of Carl Jung. The tools identify which of the four colour energies apply in your daily life to help you understand why you behave the way you do and why others behave differently. This understanding allows you to explore and understand more about yourself and others, value and appreciate difference, identify ways to interact more effectively and impactfully and identify actions that we can take to improve our performance.
Kim
Have we learned anything from the credit crunch?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009I have been interested in listening to the news over the last couple of days about the crash of Lehman Brothers’ and the role it played as the catalyst of our current economic situation.
Additionally, this week, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama have spoken out about the governance of banks and in particular the payment of bonuses. It is clear that businesses have been driven by measures of financial performance almost in isolation.
Have we really learned from our mistakes?
We are working with an organisation who have taken what I believe to be a very enlightened approach. They are stepping back to understand their values. They are defining what they as a business stand for and how this translates into their every day work including their interaction with staff, customers and suppliers.
It is a big investment of time and money and requires a strong commitment from the leadership team. That investment and commitment is fuelled by the very strong belief that consumers are much more discerning than they ever have been about the ethical standards of businesses. This company see their values as becoming a differentiator and as a consequence will lead to improved profitability.
What do you think? Are values based businesses the way forward?
Transfer learning for better results
Monday, July 27th, 2009One of the good things, I think, that has come from the credit crunch is an increase in the popularity of business coaching. I’ve spoken to a few of our clients to try to understand why they are choosing to invest more in coaching now when spending is often reigned in and most state that it’s because 100% of development activity is focused upon the individual client and delivers results for them as well as their business.
The current economic climate has required many businesses to change – often requiring them to deliver the same or better results with less resource. Many of our clients have given very positive feedback about the value of exploring different approaches and scenarios as well as planning how they will implement their response to confidential issues.
Sustainability is really important to us at The Advance Consultancy and although it sometimes goes un-noticed I think that the coach plays a vital part in helping the individual learn new tools and frameworks to shape their thinking, visioning and planning in a way that increases creativity and gives courage to take appropriate risks.
It’s great that today’s business leaders are realising that coaching is a very effective process for increasing skills and effectiveness within the workplace and delivering results.
Kim
Organisational Culture – it could be affecting the success of your business?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Welcome to my new blog where I aim to stimulate some interesting discussion and debate around leadership development, management development and business coaching in general. I’m going to kick off with Organisational Culture as this is something we’ve been heavily involved with over the last few weeks.
First things first, why would a business want to assess its organisational culture? Well, typically the businesses that come to us have recently undergone a period of change and are now trying to refocus on the behaviours and culture that will drive success into their new structure: there is a massive amount of research indicating that successful businesses consciously manage their desired culture.
Although this is not a new concept in the business arena it does seem that many businesses leave their culture to chance. We firmly believe that there are many tangible benefits in terms of increasing employee engagement and alignment. There are some businesses that have demonstrated a close link between their culture and their business success. Feel free to read an overview of our approach to Organisational Culture on our website. In the coming months, as we progress our assignments we will be adding case studies of the work that we do and also feedback from our clients.
In the meantime, I am looking for case studies of businesses and leaders who actively manage their corporate culture if you can help please post a comment with a link to your research or contact me directly through the website .I hope to be able to analyse these (alongside our own experiences) and write a summary report. I will happily send anyone who contributes a copy of our report. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks
Kim,
The Advance Consultancy – Leadership Development, Management Development & Business Coaching
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Welcome to the blog! Please bookmark it in your favourites if you are interested in the latest updates from the world of leadership and management development. I’ll also be updating everyone on business coaching news and the dates for our next human resource networking events.
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