Building a solid Company Identity and Culture
If your company is at day 1, a novice start-up or in scale-up phase, it is likely you are wondering how to establish a strong, recognizable company identity to be proud of. You also probably want to convey your corporate identity both internally and externally through employer branding efforts. Similarly, if you are in a…
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How to become SUPERMAN(ager)
In the absence of supernatural alien powers, us common mortal managers are constantly rattling our brains about how to become a super-manager. Let’s start with why we long to become great managers. Apart from that satisfying sense of achievement you get from having developed strong talents over time in your team, you may have also…
New Professions Popping up like Mushrooms
New “professions” pop up like mushrooms nowadays: CPO, Chief IoT Officer, Chief Happiness Officer, COSKR… OK, the latter is fictional. For now. And they are finding their way into many companies’ standard role groups. But why? What was wrong with the old ones? Part of the reason for the arrival of these new roles is…
Building an Extra Mile culture
Here’s the €1,000,000 question: How can our employees grow? The question is so dear to our hearts because if they do not grow, it is one of the primary reasons why companies lose or risk losing their top talents, as well as limiting business and company progression. Employee growth to its full potential is not…
Succession Planning 101
Hi People Manager. I know what you’re thinking. You don’t need a succession plan because you’re not going anywhere soon, right? What if you considered such a plan a highly effective technique to building your team’s career paths? You need that, right? Read on and find out the many other reasons why Succession Planning is…
8 Quick Tips to effectively Ramp-up your Successor
If you are a Manager who needs to build a succession plan, you have already identified who your successor is and perhaps how long it will take to ramp the person up, but you are wondering how to do it, find below some quick, actionable tips to include in your plan: 1. Coaching Coaching generally…
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What should a REAL One-on-One look like?
Some employees do not have regular one-on-one meetings with their Managers and some do, but many complain that they are unstructured, not useful or leave them feeling lost. That leaves a lucky, smaller group of employees having useful, structured 1:1’s with their managers that give them direction and allow them to move forward with the…