Deciding to let employees work either remotely or in the office requires more than just the provision of remote technology. Instead, it will require a change in how employee performance is measured – a shift from ‘being seen’ to actually producing results. Presenteeism, the art of being at your desk long enough and often enough…
I thought it might be helpful to share a number of key findings from a recent return to work survey completed by my colleagues at PSA on behalf of a retail client. On the back of which I’ve done some further thinking about what happens next. The key findings were: A majority were anxious about…
Mike Peckham and James Whitehead Visiting Fellows University of South Wales Business School In just four months COVID 19 has changed the world; from the first reported cases in Wuhan in China at the end of December to today, our world has been reconfigured. Our language has a new vocabulary that now includes terms such…
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t matter which side of the fence you sit on, we were all surprised by the outcome of the EU referendum and Trump’s election as US president. Since then, there has been plenty of dinner table and pub conversation about both outcomes and extensive economic analysis but what does it tell…
We can learn a great deal from good leadership but we can also learn from poor leadership. I’ve been fortunate to have experienced some really great leaders, but I’ve also suffered my fair share of real duffers. In a world that increasingly asks us to embrace change and inspire innovation I’ve nailed down my top…
Attempts at wholesale cultural change are costly, disruptive and unlikely to succeed. This is because culture rests upon long held ideas, customs, habits and attitudes, which have become the largely unexamined ‘way we do things around here’. A more fruitful approach is to identify and reinforce those behaviours that are congruent with your change programme…
Are you struggling to change an individual, your team or your organisation to adopt a new way of doing things? The problem may be that you are trying to change their attitude, rather than focusing on their behaviour. Some years ago I spent time in Afghanistan, working to influence the Afghan population to support the…
Leadership development programmes fail for a number of reasons, but one common mistake is to underestimate people’s resistance to changing their beliefs or behaviour. The problem with change is that you are often asking people to let go of something well known and tangible in favour of something which may be completely alien and untried.…