12/2/20 12/2/20

What Happens "now now"

When confronted with the pandemic of 2020 there were myriads of responses from various people and I thought I would classify them into the words of my upbringing and my adopted country.

11/4/19 11/4/19

What is a Mentor - Do you need one (many) ?

The idea of a long term mentor is one who provides a framework for the mentee to be able to grow.

10/17/19 10/17/19

Profiling tools : Divine or Devil ?

What are profiling and assessment tools, and what is their role in your organization ?

10/8/19 10/8/19

How flexible is your organization ?

This article considers the need for the cultures of the future to be fundamentally focused on creating flexible working environments. This is not around the bean bags in the meeting rooms or the table tennis tables and most certainly not about hot desking and open plan offices.

9/21/19 9/21/19

Lifelong learners or learners for Life ?

The question is why lifelong learning is becoming a critical factor in the cultures of tomorrow and the future of work.

9/9/19 9/9/19

Employee experience or employee engagement – the future ?

Employee engagement extends to understanding the role of the employer in the life of the employee, hence the future of the employee experience.

8/16/19 8/16/19

The future of culture is the future of work

Sometimes culture has a seat at the executive table. Companies around the global are coming to the realization that cultureis a critical component of the future design of the organization.

4/3/19 4/3/19

Are values aspirational ?

Apart of the global research into culture, I interviewed the HR manager of a food manufacturing and distribution company. As part of the discussion we looked at values. We addressed the importance of values.

3/18/19 3/18/19

Just because you can

Today we use the term – paying it forward.How much do you do for others just because you can ?

3/13/19 3/13/19

Does culture have a $ value ?

Can we place a value on that culture or is culture a soft “thing” that cant be measured ?

3/8/19 3/8/19

What is a Mentor ? Do you need one ?

I have always been fiercely independent. I have never been able to follow a particular mentor to the exclusion of all others. However, over many years in business I have had countless influencers and mentors.

3/6/19 3/6/19

Crowd-sourcing self esteem

3/4/19 3/4/19

Is a Tie a useful piece of clothing?

For many years I have advocated the removal of the tie as a piece of clothing.

3/1/19 3/1/19

What is the truth?

How do these to ideas come together in 2019 and beyond. We live in an era of fake news and post-truth. And so what then constitutes perfect information ? How does the truth then relate to this ?

2/20/19 2/20/19

A tale of two cultures

Interviewing a manger of an engineering and construction business who had recently changed employer, I was fascinated by the completely different cultures of the two organizations.