[caption id="attachment_483" align="alignleft" width="222"] Team planning is the fast route to improving all four profit drivers[/caption] The four profit drivers concept helps explain TBD's unique power to drive multiple improvements right across an enterprise all at the same time. Successful business transformation is not just about creating...
Are you in your rational mind at work all the time? OK, I don't want to be rude to my reader, so let's assume you are. But what about the other people around you; are they? To read most management textbooks and articles, you would...
Do you ever commit this type of CRIME? Why is stressed decision-making a crime? To put it succinctly, when we are stressed we are emotionally charged. That means that our higher faculties are overwhelmed by the brain’s instinctive survival mechanism. Under these circumstances our every impulse...
Using science to liberate the human spirit. There is a simple and powerful way to transform productivity, employee engagement and overall performance. And that is to create the stress free organisation. In 'Reinventing management thinking' Jeremy Old takes a robust approach with organisational performance. He drills down...
The statistics are mounting up - Stress damages your organisation. One in two workers claim to suffer stress and anxiety at work, according to the mental health charity Mind. Government figures show that nearly a million people are claiming sickness benefit due to stress related problems....
[caption id="attachment_779" align="alignright" width="544"] Hoshin Kanri can deliver dramatic growth in business sale price[/caption] Most owners undersell their businesses Many owners we meet actually undersell their business because they had not thought far enough ahead before wanting to sell it. Partly this oversight is due to owners being...
The UK's biggest economic problem is low productivity Believe it or not, Brexit chaos is not the UK’s biggest economic threat. Whether we remain or leave the EU, or whether we have a hard or soft Brexit, what really holds back our standard of living is...
Beliefs obstruct successful learning, problem solving, planning and decision-making. Have you ever wondered why bad news seems to creep so slowly up company hierarchy? Or why too often senior management meets bad news with utter disbelief? Similarly, are you perplexed that managers regularly shoot the messenger?...
Employees are reluctant to engage with you and your vision if you don’t first engage with them. How do you do that? Well there are a number of different approaches we adopt. However, there is a powerful connection between enthusiastic employee engagement and the power...
Stress in organisations is a modern day plague impacting employee engagement, productivity and organisational learning. Organisational stress audits find out the true costs of stress and employee disengagement. This valuable data helps you redesign employment conditions to create a low-stress work culture. And a low-stressed work...