Are you feeling bored with your job? Has your working day become routine or tedious, a bit like a marriage without the early days of passion? What if I told you that it might be possible to revive your interest in your work (as it is for your marriage!) - and that it is just a matter of knowing how? In his book The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni identifies three key factors … [Read more...]
Top Business Trends for 2015
If you are like me, you approach a new year with renewed energy and hope. There is something about 12 fresh months ahead that stirs up the dreamer, the planner and the optimist in me. I have the energy to take stock of all aspects of my life and feel a sense of hope that this year will be better than the last. I am sure it is the same for many business owners and team leaders. The beginning of … [Read more...]
So Many Leaders Get This Wrong
The role of human resource departments is to 'plan picnics, put out the company newsletter (complete with time-in-service anniversaries duly noted), and generally drive everyone crazy by enforcing rules and regulations that appear to have no purpose other than to bolster the bureaucracy. They derive the little power they have by being cloyingly benevolent on one hand and company scolds on the … [Read more...]