Month: January 2012

How you organise your business to delight your clients

Prospero 27 January

1 minute

How you organise your business to delight your clients, to optimise your resources and to release peoples’ potential. [geoads2] Highly evolved organisations have a low design imperative, spending their time on developing coping and workaround […]

Management

How to Create Meaning at Work

Prospero 27 January

1 minute

How to create meaning through building a motivating context that gives direction and motivates people to perform. Purpose is all about building a motivating organisational context which gives people a sense of meaningful direction at […]

Training

How to Build Capabilities that Increase Intellectual Capital and Thought Leadership

Prospero 27 January

1 minute

Capability building is critical to an organisation’s ongoing success. That can’t happen unless the organisation becomes learner and learning focused, and that requires significant understanding of where the organisation is consciously and unconsciously competent. [geoads2] […]

Change

How to Create Emotional Stakeholders

Prospero 27 January

1 minute

How to create emotional stakeholders by implementing new ways of managing, motivating, developing and coaching your people. [geoads2] Employees need a new psychological contract with their employer. The Boomers, Xers, Yers and Nexters all have different motivations, and they need to be engaged […]

Leadership

Foursquare Leadership

Prospero 27 January

1 minute

Our 4SLeadership™ Framework underpins all of our leadership development work and seeks to: Create and embed a Leadership vocabulary and focus in all critical people touch points: job descriptions, competence profiles, performance contracts, Balance Score Cards and Personal Development […]

Leadership

How to Lead Change

Prospero 27 January

2 minutes

How to lead to new places your organisation and clients, defining new market spaces and new ways of working. [geoads2] Change is about leadership, leadership is about change. Increasing change management capabilities with an absence of visible […]

Change

High Performance Organisational Development

Prospero 27 January

2 minutes

Great solutions are based around our High Performance Organisational Development™(HPOD™) Framework. HPOD brings together the key organisational components that help create and sustain competitive advantage, which is the route to becoming a world class organisation: [geoads2] […]

Change

Where Are The Cassandras In Your Organisation?

Prospero 17 January

2 minutes

If you thought Cassandra was a Greek myth long ago consigned to classical history with little to teach us about today you’d be wrong. [geoads2] Simply told, Cassandra, because of her beauty, was granted the […]

Management

7 Core Organisational Development Capabilities

Prospero 17 January

2 minutes

How effective is your organisational capability? Below we list the current top 7 taken from our recent work with clients. Organisations and people that can add-value in these areas seem to make a real difference. […]

Sales

Can Commodity Sellers Effectively Increase Their Value Proposition?

Prospero 8 January

2 minutes

Over the last couple of years we have commented a number of times on the increasing commoditisation of different markets and how this has adversely affected customers’ perceptions of the products or services they are […]