'Talent Opimisation & Succession' Category
Strengths in Flow
Imagine yourself at your best, when you are in the zone or in “flow” and everything seems to be going really well. Concentration may be so intense that self-consciousness may no longer be a factor and time may lose all sense of meaning. In this heightened state of awareness, you are also probably tapping into [...]
Maintaining Strong Social Networks
During difficult and uncertain times, strong social networks help us maintain an optimistic, upbeat outlook and ‘bounce back’ from adverse, difficult experiences at work and life. Below are several tips to help you build and maintain strong relations at work and outside.
Try to remain positive and optimistic, even in the face of adversity. Try to [...]
Building a Culture of Confidence and Success
Confidence is at the very heart of effective performance. The media continuously bombards us with very public examples of individuals and teams in the performing arts and professional sports arena buckling under pressure from crises of confidence when strong confidence is call for. For me, people like Susan Boyle and the England rugby squad spring [...]
Strengthening Your Confidence to Succeed
Confidence is at the heart of effective performance. But when setbacks or failures occur at work, our confidence often buckles. Internal voices of self-doubt are amplified and tell us we are no good, which starts of a vicious negative spiral of low self-confidence, poor performance and critical feedback.
We have found that focusing on one’s [...]
Using Our Strengths in Balance
In our work, we increasingly hear organisations talking about helping their employees use their strengths more often to achieve a motivated, high performing workforce. This is encouraging and suggests a significant shift in mindset from a deficit or weakness based one to a more strengths-based one. However, the prescription is incomplete. Simply applying strengths more [...]
Appraisals that Result in Collaboration rather than Confrontation
One of the main questions HR decision makers and professionals should be asking themselves is why it is that arguably the most powerful tool available in the HR arsenal is yielding such poor results. In any other discipline, a tool with such a poor track record would almost certainly have been ejected or transformed long [...]
Response to “Picking over the Human Remains, a resource that business could let go”, Times, October 5 2009
I’m sure many human resources and training professionals were surprised and dissapointed to read this article in such a highly respected British newspaper. For those of you who didn’t read the article, the final paragraph will probably give you the gist of what the rest of the article contains. The journalist, Sathnam Sanghera, writes:
“Get rid [...]