Organisational Development and Change Archives

Organisations Don’t Change

Organisations don’t change : People do. That was the headline on an HR Daily email recently. It certainly grabbed my attention, largely because it succinctly spoke the truth. In my experience, when a major change management initiative is touted, the bulk of the focus – and investment – is in the technical end. Customizing the … Read more

Transforming Organisations

In my experience, when you go into most companies what you find is good people and bad management. You can turn that around really quickly by starting with an inspirational dream, setting some challenges and getting everyone focussed. So said Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchj & Saatchi in his book Lovemarks. Unlike most CEO’s, when … Read more

Employee Lifecycle Management

The Employee Life Cycle is explored along with the concept of enhancing the utility of human capital through learning and development from the beginning of the lifecycle to the end.

Are Older Workers Being Trained?

I was conducting a new program yesterday and in one of the sessions a common theme emerged from a number of the groups during an exercise. Ageism. In discussing the issue with a number of participants they firmly held the belief that their organisation discriminated (consciously or unconsiously) against older members of the team. I … Read more

Change and Innovation

Those two words go so well together. To change, one has to adapt and evolve. Innovation is about adapting and evolving in a way. Viv Waters is an understated presenter who delivers the goods and I confess I don’t know Jonnie Moore but for $150 for the day this seems like a worthwhile investment. … Read more

Fun At Work

Ask your team this question: “What is the most important factor that makes a workplace rewarding, satisfying, exciting, fun?“.

This is an exercise Dennis Bakke writes about in his book “Joy at Work“. See if your team respond with these types of answers …

Good friends
Good environment
It’s challenging
I get to do what I’m good at
Fair play
I learn a lot
Doing something worthwhile
I’m needed
I’m thought of as a person
Winning
Being part of a team
Significant responsibility

Part of leadership and team membership is about

Why aren’t my staff like …

… Chocolate Peppermint Creams?

Imagine you’ve had a tough week. You deserve a treat and on the way home you buy yourself a box of chocolates. They are your favourite. All the one flavour. Chocolate Peppermint Creams. You’re home and the place is all yours. You snuggle yourself into your favourite chair, grab the remote control in case you want music or TV for company, open up that book you’ve been wanting to read, take a sip of your fine wine and put your hand in the box. You pull out a fat creamy heavily coated dark chocolate. Slip it onto your tongue. Wrap your teeth around it and â€¦ugghhh!!!! It’s not your favourite chocolate flavour at all. You try another, and another and another and you find you’ve got 5 different flavours in your box!!

Welcome to the new workplace.