Senior leaders tend to require their people to be trained without attending themselves. There are various stated reasons for this: They are too busy. They’ve already been trained in those areas (albeit some time ago). They are not the ones who need development. They aren’t sufficiently connected with the people being trained. They don’t want […]
Today’s workplace has four generations popularly labelled Silents, Baby Boomers, Generations X and Y. At the same time most organisations are experiencing difficulty in attracting and retaining talent. Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His first book, the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, became an international bestseller and popularised the terms […]
Employee engagement is high on the business agenda these days as we seek to overcome the challenges of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Every week we see brilliant tips to improve employee engagement. When we look closely at them all we see they resemble Frederick Herzberg’s Dual Theory of 1959, sometimes called the Two-Factor Theory. […]
