An analysis of our employee survey data base shows that the lowest effectiveness rating given by employees to all the issues we explore concerns: Lack of involvement in team planning and objective setting. Yet, this is one of the most important ways to help employees be fully engaged with their team and their organisation. Employees… READ MORE
Effective post-merger integration is difficult Whils the statistics vary a little, it is beleved that more than 2 out of every 3 mergers or acquistions fail to deliver the benefits expected and in fact many result in the combined entity going backwards. Failure is due to: The wrong target company being selected and/or the poor… READ MORE
Great Organisations are Never Complacent Did you know that on average an organisation stays at the top of its field for just seven years? Whilst this is what the averages tell us there are of course many companies that stay number one for generations. These organisations have been the focus of much research in an… READ MORE
COI’ s Employee Engagement Survey Solution Did you know that traditional approaches to engagement surveys often address less than 15% of issues, leaving employees frustrated and disappointed in the survey process? There are several reasons for this (poor survey design, unclear results etc), but by far the most important reason concerns the way with which… READ MORE
Every organisational strength and weakness comes together at the sales interface. Because of this and because of course they are responsbile for top line growth it is critical that the sales team perform at its best and this means that the sales team manager must to do everything he or she can to help the… READ MORE
Because we spend so much of our time in the workplace, we like our time at work to be as stress free as possible. Ideally, we would like to work with people whose company we enjoy and with whom there is no hostility whatsoever. Unfortunately, sometimes workplace hostility rears its ugly head and it feels… READ MORE