Do You Really Trust Your Manager?

Do You Really Trust Your Manager?

In my post “What Separates The Best Teams From the Rest”,  I shared the results of the extensive research by Marcus Buckingham and his team at the ADP Research Institute. They discovered that the biggest factor in driving a high level of engagement was...
Why Won’t People Just Do Their Jobs?

Why Won’t People Just Do Their Jobs?

When we are talking with managers and business leaders, they regularly express their immense frustration with people not being accountable. We operate in a highly competitive business environment where leaders are expected to achieve more, in less time, with fewer...
Why You Need to Stop Asking People for Feedback

Why You Need to Stop Asking People for Feedback

Advice and feedback are synonyms, yet asking for each tends to give quite different outcomes. According to the latest research by Harvard Business School, if you really want honest feedback that is specific and helps you to genuinely improve you are much better off...
What Separates the Best Teams from the Rest?

What Separates the Best Teams from the Rest?

83% of workers today say that they do most of their work as a team. As Marcus Buckingham and his research team at ADP Research Institute found this turns out to be a very good thing, not only because in a team people can work to their strengths and utilise other...