• The Challenge
Staff retention has been a major issue for most companies, particularly post-pandemic. This has been fuelled by a multitude of factors ranging from general dissatisfaction, challenging geopolitics, hybrid working, lack of leadership engagement, business uncertainty, poor transparency in the workplace and a lack of career pathways, amongst many other factors.
There has been considerable hyperbole about the use of AI, and its impact on potential job elimination, replacement etc., generating levels of fear. AI has been around in different forms for some time in the fields of computation, but with the advent of “Chat GPT” and “Bard” we are in the realms of words rather than in addition to numbers and digits.
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We have developed a leadership development series consisting of up to 10 modules that can be used in isolation or in combination. These were borne from our experience of dealing with leadership teams around the world. Even the most accomplished leaders are not always fully engaged or aware of the real issues. The modules are designed to provide high level insights into various leadership topics, which will raise awareness and let the participants think more deeply about the specific challenges they may not have even been aware of.
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“John has cracked the code of successful cultural transformation. His book is a primer that lays out the most business effective roadmap to guide sustainable change.”―James B. Porter, Jr., Former Vice President, E. I. DuPont and Company
Continue Reading: → The Expectation vs Success Balance for Individuals and Teams
There is never a shortage of learning models about Leadership, but in current times things are slightly different; we rarely get to see our teams in person and the human side of management is stretched to its virtual limitations.
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It is considered that a team can be defined not just by its competence leading to its overall performance, but by its energy, passion, engagement, and curiosity. All these factors are essential for a team to perform. If we look at curiosity, that can be both individual and collective, although the latter can be difficult to define. To an extent collective curiosity can be defined by the culture that surrounds the team and is embedded within it. Levels of engagement can show up within the team and in the way that the team interacts with other teams or staff members.
The quote goes ‘and the truth shall set you free’ but it omits one intertwined crucial element and that is the other ‘T-word’ Trust.
If we recall what some of the key attributes of a team are,
