Cuttings 120 December 2015

Get out of the way when your people are learning. Herbie Hancock’s advice to managers following his long career as a jazz great.
What’s the best way to manage a virtual team? Some thoughts on virtual team working.
Generation Y play the long game. It seems they are not as opportunist as they are painted.

Cuttings 119 October 2015

Creating a culture of FLOW Some basics for creating employee engagement at the workplace.
Time to ditch the performance appraisal? Yet more damming surveys of current practice points to setting up a new system.
Recruitment and retention issues Reports suggest that recruitment is becoming more difficult and costly.

Cuttings 118 August 2015

Leadership 2030: Implications for leadership from the Megatreds 2030 research.
Highlights from WAIC 2015: Some of the key messages from some of the sessions that I attended.
Comments and quotes from WAIC 2015: Some quotes and thought provoking comments from the conference.

Cuttings 117 June 2015

Megatrends 2030 What is driving the organisation in the immediate future.
5 strategies to overcome distrust Some tips to rebuild relationships and trust in teams
Roger Harrison A tribute to one of the greats of organisation consulting who died recently.

Cuttings 116 April 2015

Investing in First Line Leaders The Forum Corporation research on the value of investing in this group.
Most effective Group Size for Dialogue Some empirical research that shows small groups are better than large ones.
Management is not a long term goal for GenY We may be misinterpreting the career goals of Gen Y, leading to a shortage of managers.

Cuttings 115 February 2015

Leading Change Management – 10 principles for success based on experience at Strategy& and the Katzenbach Center
5 C’s for a great workplace – some comments adapted from Tom Terez in the ideas that underpin great places to work
Review: Positive Organisation Development Cards – Sarah Lewis has produced an excellent tool for guiding discussion in positive change environments