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I want to bring to your attention a national scandal that you’re probably not aware of. That around a quarter of all employees in the UK are disengaged from their jobs, meaning that they have no interest in their work and even hate it. They make little or no contribution to the enterprises they work [...]
The words, coach and mentor, and their derivatives, are used interchangeably in this article.
Discussions on coaching and mentoring usually throw up at some point the question whose benefit is it for? Is it for the coaching client or for the sponsoring organisation or for the coach? This is not a trivial question. Whether or [...]
The reform of corporate governance from Cadbury (1992) to Higgs (2003) was strongly influenced by agency theory. The reformers’ solution to perceived agency problems in countries with unitary boards was to prescribe rules for board structure, in particular by specifying the number and roles of non-executive directors (NEDs), and requiring the separation of the chairman [...]
Important Aspects of the Social Climate That Act As Antecedents to Employee Engagement.
Reproduced from Engaged to Perform: A new perspective on employee engagement. Lancaster University Management School White Paper 09/04, May 2009.
Shashi Balain and Paul Sparrow
1. The perception that the organization’s systems, procedures and ways of allocating resources (financial and non-financial) are fair [...]
The power of coaching to bring about employee engagement and a big profit improvement was reported in the magazine Coaching at Work (vol 5/2). The Solaglas company said that their return on investment (ROI) on the coaching programme was 490 per cent, and that the project made overall savings of almost £800,000, including lower recruitment [...]
97% of respondents believe that coaching enhances the ease with which
changes are accepted and implemented.
Individual and/or team performance improvement was rated as the main
business benefit observed from executive coaching.
Over 70% of organisations surveyed offer coaching to employees at all levels
– this has increased by 24% since 2008. Where coaching is offered only [...]
Over 20 years ago a group of friends of which I was one founded a completely new company. We did so not only because we wanted to be millionaires, but because we were fed up with our existing employers. We made a list of all the things we disliked about companies we had worked for [...]
During a downturn, people, not systems, can tell you what is going on with your clients, find ways to save you money, identify critical innovations and help you manage an increasingly nervous workforce. So writes Todd Warner in the FT Soapbox column in Business Life. I heartily agree with him.
The thrust of his article is [...]
Once again, at this time in the banking crisis, non-executive directors are coming under fire for not preventing mis-management leading to disastrous consequences for the company.
The critics evidently expected the non-executives to be able to control the actions of management. Ironically it may have been the non-executives’ own perception (gained from the ‘combined code’ of [...]
In the years I worked as an entrepreneur, the nearest thing I found to a ‘silver bullet’ was getting our employees highly-engaged in our businesses. We did this by giving them our respect, being open with them, trusting them, and giving them autonomy. I call this ROTA management: respect, openness, trust, autonomy. Today, evidence has [...]