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If you’re looking for ideas or a little inspiration in relation to engagement, workplace culture and leadership in your small business, you’ve come to the right place. Browse our articles below.
The Power of Valuing Others in Business: A Key to Success
One principle that stands out as a cornerstone for success in business is the importance of valuing others. For small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this isn't just a moral obligation but a strategic advantage that can drive growth and sustainability. The "Value...
Enhancing Employee Engagement: The Power of One-on-One Meetings
I was chatting with one of our small business clients the other day, who was proudly (and rightly so) telling me of his success since implementing regular one-on-one meetings with his team. He mentioned the benefits of the meetings in terms of maintaining...
The Resilient Spider and Reflections on Leadership
The theme of resilience popped into my head the other day as I was driving to visit my elderly Mum in her aged facility. It’s about a 45-minute journey, much of it on the motorway, which means I was driving at or close to the speed limit for much of the time, 110kmh....
Beyond Happiness: The True Essence of Effective Workplace Cultures
For many, the mention of “workplace culture” conjures up images of happy employees, vibrant office spaces, and a general sense of employee well-being (fruit bowl and a table tennis table in the lunchroom, anyone?). While employee satisfaction/happiness is undeniably...
Culture & Leadership: Food for Thought
As regular readers will know, one of the key components of our Success Through People Model© is “Equipping Others”: ensuring that those engaged in your business have the tools, resources, information and capabilities necessary to succeed in their role. Of course, this...
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...