People Management

This category is People Management, exploring strategies for leadership, employee engagement, and organizational development. It features expert insights on talent management, workplace culture, and best practices for building high-performing teams in a dynamic business environment.

Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence

By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
corporate learning

Making Corporate Learning Work

By Shlomo Ben-Hur & Nik Kinley Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’...

Going for Gold in the Productivity Olympics? Your Choices in Reward Administration are Business...

By James Markham In my previous article (ref: TEBR July/August 2012 edition), I argued that organisations are not paying enough attention to how the Reward...

Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time

By Brian Souza Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...

Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation

By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...

Getting More for Less: Revolutionising the Reward “Asset” Empowering Reward to Perform Better. Are...

By James Markham In a period of recession, most major companies look for new ways of selling or streamlining operations. Rarely, however do companies turn...
leadership and culture

Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe

Mindset Tribe By Sean Culey Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
global business strategy

Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture

By Sean Culey Issues of corporate culture have long been of great concern to executives and management theorists alike for a simple reason; culture matters...

Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing

By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...

Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light

By Craig Perrin Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...

Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management

By Winfried Ruigrok Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...

Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance

By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four...

Getting a Job In 2025

By Lynda Gratton Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade. Even with my own three decades...

Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...

By Charles H. Bishop, Jr. Introduction Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...

Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage

By Scott Keller and Colin Price To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time. The case for health...

The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness

By Sean Culey Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...

Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...

By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
Heartbleed

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

By Stan Slap Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...

The Sustainable Organisation – Driving value through organisational change

By Claire Arnold, Co Founder of Maxxim Consulting

 Everyone who has the ambition, drive and competence to want the top job has to be alive...

Creating Abundant Organizations

Interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...

Leadership and the Structure of Trust

By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict. In the business world, executives soon...