By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th May 2019 An article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review has, as is often the case, triggered some lateral thinking on my part. Borys Groysberg (2020) explores a case study of whether a manager should fight to keep a star employee who decides to leave the organisation without any …
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Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”. I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking, and emotional intelligence, and picked this one up at random, not really knowing what to expect. It’s a gem! Like his other …
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By Elisabeth Goodman My blog on employee engagement (Employee engagement – some interesting data and perspectives for Lean and Six Sigma practitioners) is, of all the blogs that I have written since 2009), the one that has attracted the most attention. I wrote it in response to an article I read in the business section …
Why is employee engagement such an important topic? Read More »
Readers of my blogs will know that I am an avid reader. I’ve just made my way through ‘Do more great work’ by Michael Bungay Stanier. It’s a misleadingly small book! It looks small, and from the outside could be mistaken as the kind of book that you can wiz through. But it’s taken me …
Building strong personal career paths – do you have a case study to share? Read More »
‘Topgrading’ by Bradford D Smart1, is a wonderful testament to the existence of talented individuals who can also ‘work smarter’, ‘deliver higher quality work’, ‘demonstrate greater team work’, and ‘find ways to get the job done in less time and with less cost’. Smart argues that it’s the proportion of ‘A’ players in an organisation …
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At 4am on a fresh autumn morning, a coach load of members of the European Pharmaceutical Student Association (EPSA) began their early morning journey from Genoa, Italy, to Nice (France) to attend a workshop on ‘Personal Career Development – new to the job or ready for a change?’ This was one of the sessions organised …
Taking control of your working life as an employee; a first 100 days approach? Read More »
All change practitioners, and those who have practiced ‘change management’ know the theory about negative and positive change, based on Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s experience of people dealing with grief. And, as organisational change practitioners, we encourage people to bear these in mind when they are either responsible for introducing significant change, or are trying to cope …
Personal reflections on living through change and… reaching ones potential Read More »
I first got involved in the discipline of Knowledge Management about 15 years ago, so it’s very refreshing to revisit the basics and check on what I might have missed or forgotten along the way. This is why I’m reading Melissie Clemmons Rumizen’s “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knowledge Management.” It’s a very good book. …
We are still in the knowledge age: are we meeting the needs of knowledge workers? Read More »
One of the preoccupations in large organisations is how to encourage individuals to be more ‘self-empowered’. In the words of one of my HR colleagues, it can become a bit of an oxymoron if employees choose not to be, whilst employers are telling them to be… Having started on my journey of being self-employed whilst …
Is the key to empowerment to adopt a self-employed attitude? Read More »
