Engaging the hearts and minds of your people towards improving productivity enables them to become your invaluable partners in success, writes Dave Hanna Tough financial times call for increases in productivity. This sends managers in…
C-level executives are less likely to recognise a shortfall in their own company culture than other employees, according to a recent research report. It found that boards and CEOs need a reality check around culture…
Attempts to change culture simply by forcing changes in behaviour and hoping are doomed when using traditional definitions of culture, writes Jon Williams Culture appears to mean many different things to different people. But however…
Understanding how company culture affects strategy implementation, and developing a plan to align them, can be the key to unprecedented success, writes Dave Hanna A global enterprise once surveyed its managers to get their perspectives…
Trust is one important key to building a culture of high performance, whereby speed will go up and costs will go down, writes Dave Hanna This statement by Stephen M. R. Covey (son of Dr…
A proactive approach to culture from HR in partnership with leaders will give Boards confidence that culture is actively managed, and that the intended business outcomes can be achieved, writes Jerome Parisse-Brassens Boards are increasingly…
There are numerous avenues through which HR professionals can significantly impact successful business strategy, writes Wayne Brockbank Over the past 25 years, the Human Resource Competency Study carried out by the Ross School of Business…
HR executives in high-performing firms are highly skilled in understanding the nuances of market-based business priorities and their cultural implications, writes Wayne Brockbank Six weeks ago I had the unique opportunity to interview the senior HR…
Sometimes, uncomfortable changes are necessary to create a high performance culture, writes Dave Hanna A HR manager in Germany, Herbert, was doing a community wage survey and had just finished his interview with Frank, his counterpart…
Culture is critically important to business success worldwide, however, there is a clear disparity between the way companies view culture and the way they treat it, and many executives believe a major overhaul of their…