The New Interview in Town
Many companies conduct Exit Interviews when people leave the company. These interviews are conducted assuming that the employee who is leaving will have nothing to lose and might share confidential information about their boss, colleague etc. If you are one of those companies living in this fantasy world then here is something for you to […]
Understanding The Value of Employee Engagement
What makes up a best place to work? Everything must be taken into consideration; the workplace culture, support from the organization to help enlist company values into its employees and most of all employee satisfaction and engagement. The Great Place to Work Institute, in partnership with Fortune Magazine, has been working for 25 years to […]
The Power of Leeches
Anyone who has ever been bitten by a leech knows the strength of these blood-sucking creatures. It is almost impossible to kill one and when it attaches itself, it doesn’t let go before it has sucked enough blood, which can last from anything between 20 minutes and 2 hours! We encountered plenty of leeches last […]
Crisis Control
Whoa! What a day… Yesterday was a day I will not easily forget. It started off with receiving a number of text messages from friends and colleagues saying that an email my company had sent out to all the contacts that I have accumulated over the last ten years (inviting people to participate in our […]
What We Think, We Become
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSXYHqs0KPo] M.S.clip Do you ever realize that sometimes you end up watching the absolute best and simply worst movies on a plane? You never know what you are getting into. On the flight back from my Leadership Outbreak in Sri Lanka I watched the movie the Iron Lady on the life of Margaret Thatcher (what […]
Creative Conflict
Margaret Thatcher, the British Iron Lady, once famously said “Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects, the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way […]
The Business X Factor
Talent reality shows like ‘The X Factor’ are all about discovering people who have an exceptional ability but have never been in the position to display their talent. These show have created a platform for people to display their abilities, while the audience is drawn in by stories of participants overcoming challenges and adversity. My […]
The Talent Barometer: Moving HR Out of Babylonian Times
For thousands of years now, people have been trying to forecast the weather. Even as far back as 650 BC, the Babylonians predicted the weather using astrology and cloud patterns. In 1644 an Italian scientist called Tornicelli invented the mercury barometer. Ever since, meteorologist used this barometer to gauge the pressure of the atmosphere – thus […]
Content Is King
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to coach a very bright manager with a great deal of potential, helping her deliver the presentation of her life. In preparing for my coaching assignment, I read the latest books regarding successful presentations (check out The Presentation Coach by Graham Davies if you are interested). I also used […]
Better Buy
From my previous blog (Promote or Hire) you know by now that I have a bias towards promoting talent from within. In my experience, which is also backed by research, employees that have been promoted within the company are most likely more successful and cost you less. So why would you go outside and ‘buy’ talent […]
