From Poor to Peak Performance – Part 2 In Part 1 (click here to read it ) we questioned the Learning & Development (L&D) status quo and made a bold suggestion that knowledge training was in effect a complete waste of time. (But it wasn’t that bold...
Talent Management
What is the Poor to Peak Performance Continuum? Part 1
From Poor to Peak Performance As we stood outside a conference room in Pakistan waiting to deliver a Masterclass on Behavioural Waste™ Management we did what we always do and looked at the banners by the entrance. Why? Simply because that’s what the delegates see last and...
Is The Biggest, Unchecked Business Disease – Behavioural Waste™?
The biggest, unchecked Business Disease – Behavioural Waste™ Organisations believe in leadership development as there are $billions invested in leadership development every year, made on the assumption that “better leaders get better results”. Some, more focused (maybe informed) investors focus their leadership programmes on engagement, assuming better...
Where do Reality-Driven Leaders start?
Where do Reality-Driven Leaders start? We’re often asked this question and what may be surprising is that no matter the size of the organisation the answer is the same – start with reality. Why? Because we instinctively know that’s the right place, yet we all make assumptions...
Do you know how much The Elephant in the Room Costs?
The Elephant in the Room – Do you know how much it costs? The ‘Elephant in the Room’ is a metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed. These ‘Elephants’ are commonly something we know about but choose to ignore and it often applies to...
Management Training – is it time to change the approach?
If it’s not bust don’t fix it! For decades, if an organisation wanted to develop its people as leaders, team players or as top performers; or for people to become more motivated, or have the ability to handle change, to improve communication, it simply left it to...
Why do leadership development programmes fail?
Why do Leadership Development Programmes Fail? According to a report by Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen and Kevin Lane and released by McKinsey this month (January 2014) four reasons are given: Overlooking context; Decoupling reflection from real work; Underestimating mindsets; Failing to measure results. Will this evidence be...
Mind Fit and the 4 Global Strengths – No1 Awareness
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” (Abraham Maslow) However, as we should know it’s far broader than just awareness of him/herself. The key is how you do ‘awareness’ is what counts – we say do because you have to...
Knowledge-Based Training Hasn’t Worked
Inside-Out Paradigm Shift needed to close the ‘Knowing: Doing’ Gap. The recent September CIPD research report: ‘Real-life leaders: closing the knowing-doing gap’ concludes that “It is highly unlikely that organisations will abandon leadership and management development activities – even if they are not fully satisfied with the...
Talent management is important – so how talented are you?
We’re told Talent Management is really important to business success. So do we know how talented we are and where the talented people are in the organisation? There is a growing belief among the specialists in the field of human behaviour, that it is only a minority...