by Diana Tapp | Sep 9, 2019 | blog
One of the challenges for many leaders, particularly in larger organisations, is to get their people to stop working in silos and to start thinking in terms of the business as a whole. In tougher economic climates, in particular, we often see the tension between...
by Diana Tapp | Aug 30, 2019 | blog
‘In order to control your destiny, you must realise that you will stay ahead competitively only if you acknowledge that no advantage and no success is ever permanent. The winners are those who keep moving.’ John Browne, former CEO of BP To remain competitive in the...
by Diana Tapp | Aug 26, 2019 | blog
Who are the five most valuable people in your business? What would happen to your business if just one of them left? In any business, people are your greatest asset. Yet, we tend to take more care of our capital assets. We insure them adequately, we maintain them...
by Diana Tapp | Aug 19, 2019 | blog
We know that conflict causes high levels of emotion – anger, frustration, fear. And in these emotional states we waste time, we don’t do our best work. In a study on workplace conflict, commissioned by the publisher of the Myers-Brigg Assessment, the findings...
by Diana Tapp | Aug 12, 2019 | blog
Driving performance is not about the annual Performance Review. In fact, companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Accenture are choosing to abandon traditional performance management methods. Adobe calculated that the annual performance reviews required 80,000 hours of...
by Diana Tapp | Aug 5, 2019 | blog
Do you know the difference it would make to your bottom line if your team’s performance improved by just 10%? Research by Drs. Zenger and Folkman aimed to quantify that impact. They found that for companies in which labour costs represent about 50% of their total...