The first step to making an organisation more effective is often said to be collaboration. However, this isn’t always the right approach. Consider three scenarios: turning around a problematic organisation, starting a local business, and operating a fast-growing founder-led organisation. Turnaround When organisations lose their way, small...
In this article Craig Yeatman writes about how organisations often invest in team performance, leadership development, and strategy retreats. It seems obvious that leadership behaviour, strategic direction and team enablement should align. ...
“I am a Mini-me version of my manager”. Thats what a delegate on our first-line management program announced when we asked, ‘where or from who did you learn to be a manager?’ This sparked a great debate about the importance of walking the talk as...
We had a call with a small but fast-growing media and entertainment company about aspects of their culture. They were struggling to put their finger on the problem, presenting issues from the smell of staff food in the microwave to failures in work allocation and...
