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Can You Change Corporate Culture?

30 April, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

corporate culture

Corporate culture is stable It develops over time, employees self select to be part of it, which in turn reinforces it. Or at least Jeff Bezos thinks so A word about corporate cultures: for better or for worse, they are enduring, stable, hard to change. They can be a source of advantage or disadvantage. You […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: culture, management style

Does Your Organisation Have Bad Habits?

26 April, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

We don’t think much We spend most of our time reacting to situations without thinking about them.  It’s the way our brains work. Over time we pick up habits and learn routines. They allow our subconscious to take control and we function on autopilot. Most of the time we don’t think about what we are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: default option, management style, reinforcing behaviour

Do You Need Good Managers?

29 March, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Good Boss

A nice assertion “Teams who rate their manager highly do better”. I don’t have any data that proves it, but it sounds like common sense. I am, however, always a little wary of common sense, so lets refine that assertion and go with something more concrete. A grounded assertion “People leave bad managers”. According to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: management style, performance management

The Alpha Male Paradox

20 March, 2018 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Alpha Male

It isn’t really me I’m not what you would call an alpha male, truth be told I’d struggle to qualify as a beta male.  I will never scare anybody into submission.  I’m your average middle management wimp. But I have an alpha male hero My hero is Frank Shamrock. If you have not heard of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: command and control, learning, listening, management style, rhetoric

What Is the Score?

12 March, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Shattered

The bully A while back I watched an internal audit.  I saw an Area Director evaluate his Ops Supervisor. The results were, how can I best put it? Poor… Out of a possible 20 audit points the area scored 3. The boss went ballistic.  He took his subordinate aside and destroyed her.  He told her […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: auditors, command and control, continuous improvement, employee performance measures, management style, motivation

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