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Your Pathway to Success Through People
A question we are often asked by people after they complete the Success Through People (STP) Scorecard and/or otherwise stumble across the STP model, is How do I implement this in my business? After being asked the question more than a few times, we figured we’d...
A Deeper Dive into STP Scorecard Results
In a recent blog article, we revealed the average results for those businesses/organisations that had completed the Success Through People Scorecard (as at March 2022). We saw that a couple of the areas most businesses/organisations appear to struggle with are Setting...
STP Scorecard Results: How does your business compare?
We sometimes get asked by those who complete the Success Through People Scorecard, “How do our results compare to others?” While it’s fair to argue that what others are doing/not doing shouldn’t be too much of a focus for how we manage our own businesses or...
“Good staff are hard to find”. Yeah, they are, so what are you doing about it?
Anyone who has worked in the recruitment/HR/helping-sort-out-the-people-stuff space for any length of time will have heard a remark along the lines of “Good staff are hard to find!”, once or twice (or perhaps a few hundred times if you’ve been around the traps as long...
Authentic Leadership in a VUCA World
I was fortunate a couple of weeks ago to have the opportunity to invest in my own professional development and participate in an online session with Professor Bill George (senior fellow at Harvard Business School, former CEO of Medtronic and the author of:...
Canaries, COVID and Culture
Just as canaries were once used to check the gas levels in coalmines (dead canary = no go zone), so COVID has proven to be an indicator of the health, or otherwise, of workplace cultures. We've directly see it play out in the workplaces of our clients and others we've...
Values in Action!
Those who know us well, or who have worked with us directly, will know that we are "pretty big" on the importance of articulating clear values in a business or organisation. So a conversation I had recently with a relatively new client in which she referenced the...
There’s Never Been a Better Time to be More Agile….
"Agility" is more than a buzzword in the workplace today; it's a requirement. Organizations must be ready for challenges they couldn't have imagined 5 years ago (COVID-19 anyone?). And every smart company you can think of is undergoing some kind of agile...
Cultivating Vulnerability-Based Trust
Regular readers will know that I'm a fan of management consultant and author Patrick Lencioni, and particularly his "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" model. The first dysfunction of a team in Lencioni's model is the Absence of Trust. Notably, Lencioni refers specifically...