November 2021

What to do if Two of your Teams are not Working Well Together

Scenario Your organisation has a number of high quality teams, with good leadership.  Each team functions well as a stand-alone unit.  However two teams simply do not work well together – for example your Sales and Marketing teams do not quite seem to mesh together, or your finance team and your operations team seem to […]

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What to do if One of your Teams Is not Performing Well

If you have concerns about the performance of a particular team, whether that is your management team or an individual functional team, this is what you should do about it.  Step 1:  Investigate First, investigate what is going on.  Establish what the issues are and what unhelpful behaviour is undermining performance.  This is akin to

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Culture Change: How to transform your organisation

We are social primates, programmed to follow subtle unwritten rules and social cues.  Those rules and social cues are the foundation of group culture.   Any group of humans is a community, and every community has a culture. That is as true of informal gatherings as it is of large organisations with complex corporate cultures. The

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Corporate Culture and Operational Efficiency

It could be argued that the roots of our modern understanding of corporate culture lie in a study initiated to assess the impact of shop-floor lighting on worker productivity. The studies were conducted by the Harvard Business School between 1924 and the early 1930s at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Chicago.

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Take Our Quiz to See what sort of Culture Your company Has

This short quiz is a bit of fun with a serious purpose.  It's not 100% accurate, of course, but it should give you some insights into what sort of organisation your company is - or what sort of organisation you want it to be.   Answer a few simple questions about how your organisation operates (or how you would like it to operate) and we will tell you which archetype it best fits.  Enjoy the quiz.

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Who, out of the following, is the most powerful/influential figure in your company [If the CEO plays several of these roles, choose the one that is most important to the CEO]?

2 / 10

Who are your most valuable employees?

3 / 10

What information does your management team always ask for before making an important decision?

4 / 10

What is the key investment needed to grow your company to the next level?

5 / 10

What key metric is the most important for your Management Team – the thing they are obsessed with?

6 / 10

If you are hiring a new junior employee who you hope will learn the business and will go on to make a big contribution to the company in the future, which candidate would you be most impressed by?

7 / 10

Who is the ideal person to lead your business?

8 / 10

If an employee breaks the rules, what excuse is most likely to get them forgiven?

9 / 10

If a new customer makes a difficult request, what is your reaction?

10 / 10

What is most likely to get praise, a promotion or a bonus in your company?

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