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Having spent the past couple of weeks helping our clients to navigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, one theme stood out to us.
Whilst some are in a state of panic (and understandably so for those in the most effected sectors), it is the companies with high accountability cultures that are navigating these challenging times best.
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Covid-19 has turned the world upside down and many business owners face the challenge of adjusting your business strategy, structure and/or workforce plans to get through to the other side of the pandemic.
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We wanted to provide a brief update to all our client and contacts on how we are dealing with the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, given our business focus on leadership, people and performance.
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As the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (“coronavirus”) approaches a global pandemic, companies are going to be faced with some difficult challenges. Here are six ways to ensure your company can deliver high performance despite coronavirus.
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Understanding the key functions and where there are gaps and/or duplication points will help you prepare to choose the right organisational structure to achieve your strategy. A key to achieving this is an understanding of the key differences between potential organisational structures together with the pros and cons of each.
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When it comes to hiring key people to your team, you tend to get what you deserve in terms of the process you apply… Of course, this can be a good thing or a bad thing, but to make sure it’s a positive result you really need to get inside the thinking of the great […]
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Its easy to say that failing to plan is planning to fail (it is!), but there are other reasons that private enterprises fail at succession planning, or never get started on it in the first place.
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Over a wide-ranging lunch discussion with an investment banker yesterday, I got a very familiar answer to the often asked question ‘what is the number one thing you look at when investing in private companies’? Without hesitation the reply was ‘the quality of the management team’.
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When it comes to strategic planning, most companies will complement their business strategy with financial modelling and budgets, which is exactly what they should do. But very few emerging and mid-scale companies invest in a detailed HR strategy and workforce plan.
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The idea of a One Page Strategic Plan or Strategy On A Page (SOAP) is not a new one and there are various models and templates available. However, most companies fail in the development of same, or simply give up, because they find that there is a lot more work in achieving simplicity than they expect!
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