What ‘floats your boat’? That is, what is it that makes you genuinely feel appreciated for the work you do? Is it the big pay packet? Or the internal sense of achievement? Or some gesture of appreciation from your company? Unfortunately, what works for you is unlikely to work for …
Avondale Business School Awarded the Faculty “Excellence” Award for 2018!
Tuesday, February 19, 2019During the 2019 Staff Professional Development week at Avondale College, the Avondale Business School (ABS) was awarded the Faculty of Education, Business and Science “Excellence Award” for 2018, for recognition by external parties of their research output, external engagement activities and teaching. The staff at ABS have worked hard in …
The Power of the Executive Assistant
Tuesday, February 19, 2019I have long been a believer that the real power in any office does not lie with the “bosses”, but with those who look after the bosses. And now I have the research to support my hunch. Dilemma-Assist, in conjunction with the International Management Assistants (IMA) network recently released a …
And The Greatest of These is….
Tuesday, February 12, 2019Authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman recently published an article in HBR which asserts that trust is a leading indicator of whether others evaluate leaders positively or negatively (Read it here). Using data from the 360 assessments of 87,000 leaders they have distilled the three key elements of trust, and …
You Deserve What You Reward
Tuesday, February 12, 2019Do the remuneration and reward policies of your organisation recognize the values and culture you want your organisation to be known for? Or do they reflect the ugly underbelly of what is really happening in your workplace? That’s a tough question, because it is the behaviours of the employees and …
Too Scared to be Fearless?
Tuesday, February 12, 2019While high-performance organisations are not as common as we would think, there is a common attribute amongst them – being a fearless organisation. Amy Edmondson, in a great article called ‘How Fearless Organisations Succeed’ (read it here), goes right to the heart of the matter and outlines the essential characteristics …