Creating a Culture for Competitive Advantage
Most of what passes for competitive advantage these days is a myth, and that’s because of a phenomenon that Doris Day once sang about in the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun. The opening lyric is, “Anything you can do, I can do better.” And that’s about the size of it.
Read moreAre Leaders Born or Made?
This is one of those questions that surfaces every once in a while. The late Sir Neville Marriner, founder of the Academy of St Martins-in-the-Fields, once said in an interview that music conductors were born, overlooking the fact that even he wasn’t born with a baton in his hand.
Read moreWhy Stress Is So Stressful
It has been suggested that employee stress, depression, and a lack of personal motivation were caused by the disruption the pandemic brought and the subsequent ripple effect that followed. This is false. Although it may have accelerated their impact, the ingredients were already there and, to a large extent, were producing negative outcomes in the workplace long before.
Read moreJoin us for Key Performance Training’s Launch Event – 17th June 2022
Our sister company, Key Performance Training, are delighted to announce their Launch Event on 17th June 2022 at their new dedicated training centre in Kembrey Park in Swindon.
Read moreWhy Job Satisfaction Matters
It has been suggested that job specialisation will result in low job satisfaction, which is another way of saying that people get more satisfaction from jobs that are less specialised - more general, in other words.
Read moreOur Sister Company, Key Performance Training, Moves to New premises
Be More Effective are delighted to announce that our sister company, Key Performance Training has moved to new premises. Swindon-based Key Performance Training’s re-location to bigger premises in Kembrey Park will provide a welcome boost to the local workforce.
Read moreWhy Employment With You Is Intolerable
People often leave because they’re forced to - sacked, redundancy, or long-term illness. They also leave because they’re not happy where they are. They may want experiences they can’t get without leaving, or a promotion that’s not available in their current organisation. That said, it’s more than likely that their boss has become intolerable. What would make you - the manager - intolerable to work for? Lots of things.
Read moreWhat Level of Leadership Needs the Most Attention?
Birkman asks, “If you had to prioritise, then what level of leadership in your organisation do you need to give more attention to this year?” This is a good question because it forces you to narrow your focus from thinking about leadership generically to one that is specific to you and to consider it granularly. It’s much easier to think about leadership across an industry or even an organisation that it is to ask specific questions about it. In this article, we’re going to look at...
Read moreWeak Questions Leaders Ask
Questions may be the most powerful way to make progress on anything because they provoke thinking, and because the answers that result can give guidance for precise action. Of course, the key is to ask good questions, which is much easier said than done. That’s because all of us approach them with pre-conditions and assumptions. We all have things that we’re unwilling to change no matter what. The tendency is to take those things as given so much so that we forget that they are there. Th...
Read moreWhy Are You Trying to Be Like Everyone Else & How Can You Be Different?
There’s a remarkable tendency in all organisations to do what everyone else does. For all the rhetoric about being innovative, most of them are unwilling to stick their corporate necks out too far. It’s much more comfortable to be somewhere in the middle of the pack than to take the risk that they’ll be wrong by putting their heads above the proverbial parapet. This attitude is exemplified in five key areas, each of which reflects what everyone is does already or is trying to do: the in...
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