'Mood based’ working areas which eliminate a designated desk and chair, an emphasis on wellness and healthy working environments, blurred boundaries between home and work are all characteristics of the future of our working environment. Gone are the days of arriving at your office desk at 8am to start work, morning tea in the staff tea room at 10am, lunch at 12 and home at 5pm. Skype conversations … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Employee Engagement
At Business Development Company, we believe that growing people is key to growing business. To prove it we have compiled the latest research on The Benefits of Employee Engagement into a whitepaper. Click on the link to download and give to your boss, your co-worker and friends. We're on a mission to spread the word. Herrmann Whole Brain Thinking And for those of you who have completed your … [Read more...]
The Changing Nature of Leadership
We're in print! This article is published in the May 2015 issue of New Zealand Management magazine. CLICK HERE to view the article. By Julie Varney.‘Mood based’ working areas which eliminate a designated desk and chair, an emphasis on wellness and healthy working environments, blurred boundaries between home and work are all characteristics of the future of our working environment. Gone are … [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...]