High performance leadership
Having specialised in performance for over 20 years, I am convinced organisational success is largely a consequence of leadership.
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Effective performance management
The performance of an organisation's workforce, which is critical in todays increasingly competitive market, is largely a consequence of leadership. A key facet of leadership is effective performance management.
Culture as a performance enabler
Organisational Culture can be described as ‘the inherent ideas, beliefs and values held within an organisation.
Optimising workplace performance
Given the state of the global economy, it is little wonder executives around the world are asking their leadership teams to make more headway in terms of improving their workplace performance given its impact on organisational competitiveness and...
Engineering a step-change in performance - Part 2
Last month we examined the Auckland blues. This month we will look at the act of stepping up from a different perspective – being that required by the citizens of challenged EU nations.
A summary of the racial effect on New Zealand’s prosperity
Sadly it is commonplace for the race debate to rise to the fore on national holidays (as it did again this Anzac period when self-proclaimed protagonist Wikatana Popata said he had “had enough of Pakeha” – TVNZs Close Up).
Similarities between business and sport
With a number of Olympic trials starting this month, it seemed pertinent to examine the correlation between business and sport in an attempt to help you identify strategies used by coaches that could be deployed in your organisation.
Future of the unions
Despite pressures on businesses intensifying and profitability for many falling, the cost of living continues to soar putting the topic of our long term viability as a nation squarely back on the table.
Ditch the soft skills
There has been a lot of talk recently about the need for managers to develop their so-called ‘soft skills – perhaps as a result of the additional challenges companies are facing in these difficult economic times.
Leadership - time for change
How is it possible some of our most deplorable commercial acts in living memory have resulted in catastrophic losses for investors but in many instances, personal fortunes for the perpetrators?
All Blacks’ form – leveraging capability
Whilst the All Blacks recent form would suggest they have made some decent headway in terms of increasing their psychological capacity to perform i.e. gaining traction in the area of improving mind-sets, the Springboks collapse is rather more surprising.
Beware the cardboard cutouts
In recent months I have had conversations with a number of executives who are becoming increasingly concerned by the lack of substance they are observing in leaders being appointed to senior roles within their own organisations and/or other companies...
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