Are you ready?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

For the future? For Change?

We have an emergency budget on the 22nd June 2010 and massive national debt. Something will have to change.

It means change in society; personally, how we spend and how we save. In Business, the way that we operate and how our customers spend and save.

Change makes people nervous but change happens all the time. How do we adapt and cope with it? Successfully adapting to change needs a vision of the future, a deep understanding of who you are, what your business culture is and what you are seeking to achieve long-term. What does change do to you?

In some it can excite and motivate to adapt in others it can be stressful. This feeling of stress can affect an organisation especially if that person is a leader as they directly affect their team or department, even the whole organisation!

“The way people feel about working for a company can account for up to 30% of business performance”. The Hay Group

So this means that people can have a negative impact as they just don’t feel good about the company. Stress can mean that staff will not focus on what works.

Organisational Climate: is a set of properties of the work environment, perceived directly or indirectly by employees.

Organisational Climate can be measured in different ways. Try this questionnaire click here to download.

Let us know the results and we can help.

………..understand yourself.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

…understand yourself!  Then, and only then, can we manage ourselves effectively through constant, consistent and persistent application of focused effort towards the achievement of worthy goals.  If goal achievement is dependent on working with others then being aware of what drives others (Social Awareness) enables a much greater ability to develop high performance relationships and manage them to the benefit of all.

In organisational terms, if Leaders have a clear understanding of the company: the vision for the future, what success looks (and feels) like, the specific goals that drive action etc, the subsequent identification of resources is relatively easy.  I will admit that actually securing the necessary resources might be more of a challenge especially in the current climate, however, taking time to consider the company’s most important resource, the people you have, working with them to align individual needs and preferences with organisational goals is time and effort never wasted.

So, can you give honest and complete answers to the above questions?