Stories, advice and inspo to guide career journeys
Your values vs. their values: Why you may be missing a critical piece of the engagement puzzle
We are fully on board with organisational values. They play an essential role in defining the culture you want to create and can serve as a powerful tool to differentiate your employee experience.
The trick most organisations are missing is failing to uncover what their employees value—and how those individuals can live their core values at work.
Performance coaching. A minefield or goldfield?
Performance coaching succeeds or fails long before any framework or template is used. The leader's mindset often determines whether performance coaching feels like a goldfield full of opportunity, or a minefield best avoided.
The retention secret: how helping your employees map their careers keeps them with you
Good people leave when they can't see a future with you, and pay and perks rarely fix that on their own. Helping people map their career inside your organisation, with managers who can run a real career conversation, gives them a reason to grow with you rather than around you.
Stop focusing on underperformance: why your managers need to start coaching their average performers
Managing underperformance soaks up a lot of a manager's time, while the solid people in the middle of the team barely get any real attention. That middle group is where the biggest productivity lift is waiting. Give your managers a coach approach they can use in everyday conversations, and you'll lift engagement and hold on to the good people you can't afford to lose.