In their book Why Managers Matter, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein (2022) argue that as business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organisation tick....
With the new year comes new energy and positive resolutions, let’s use this energy to put our teams, managers and leaders on the same positive trajectory! In 2021, the ‘Great Resignation’ dominated the news cycles. In the second half of 2022, the ‘Quiet Quitting’ trend gained...
Did you know that we are registered as a Private Higher Education Institution? Well, we are, and it is something we are very proud of! And did you know that qualifications in Organisation Development are as scarce as hens teeth in South Africa? Well, they are,...
For leaders who transitioned into new roles in 2020, there was a "big drop" in leadership skills training, formal assessments, and 360 feedback compared with early 2019 and before, according to the findings of a survey by Development Dimensions International. The company pored through responses from...
I’ve never liked that most of what we do in OD is referred to as soft skills. It makes it sound fluffy and not important, it is not! And when training budgets are cut in hard times, these are the first to be put on...
In a conversation last week with Matt McDonnell from Willis Towers Watson, he mentioned “the great resignation” as if it is something we should be familiar with. I had to stop him and ask what he meant, and he told Christo and I about this...
This newsletter was inspired by a conversation I had this morning with Allon Shevat (our speaker at next week’s OD Talk), we were talking about resilience and he told me how his grandfather, who was a boxing coach, trained him when he was small and...
In this week’s newsletter I want to share an excerpt of a blog published by David Wilkinson, who has appeared on two of our #ODTalks in the past year, and is the founder of the Oxford Review. Here it is: “One of the areas of research...
Last week I attended a webinar hosted by Africa People Advisory Group, they launched their New Ways of Working, pan-African Insights Study. Their findings are fascinating and validated much of what we have been speculating about over the past year. The survey report highlights 6 emerging...
