If the pandemic has not challenged anything, it has challenged the level of trust between business leaders & managers and the rest of team members and even amongst employees. It’s critical that company leaders work to rebuild and maintain trusting relationships — with and among their employees. Those that don’t trust, risk far more than …
1 year old – Are your people really your most important asset?
Today marks the 1st Anniversary since I published my first Blog Post article. Little did I know how the year ahead would develop....and what a year it has been! First of all I want to take the opportunity to thank the more than 10,000 viewers who clicked on the Blog in the past year. I …
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How will your business operate in a Post-Pandemic future?
This is a situation which various businesses are presently facing. As a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees are working from home and are therefore saving time and money in travelling daily to the office, stuck in traffic, while in many instances still getting their work done productively — in some cases more …
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Culture…Culture…Culture!
I was recently delivering a risk management webinar course. These days you cannot speak about risk management and not touch upon the importance of resilience. From a risk management perspective, for organisations to improve their resilience they have to:- ● gain awareness of changes in the external and internal environment, so that constant attention to …
Omerta’
Notwithstanding that many business organisations use tools such as codes of conduct, training and audits, research constantly shows that only very few employees ever speak up or report wrongdoing. This matters, because such silence creates a fertile ground for white-collar crime. Why is this? The leading cause of silence is fear of repercussions. Research after …
Survival Mode for Family Businesses and SMEs
I was recently impressed by the hard hitting statistic coming out from the Chamber of SMEs research which outlined that 68% of SMEs in Malta felt that they would not survive more than 12 months in the current conditions (even with the present level of Government Assistance).There are various research studies presently taking place across …
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Please be AGILE
Businesses are facing major disruptions which bringing new and urgent demand for change. With some industries on the brink of extinction, change isn’t about fine-tuning — it’s existential. However I still see businesses going about change, using traditional approaches based on heavy processes and lengthy timelines. This is not want is needed. Many businesses need …
Teamwork
With all the difficulties and challenges that various businesses are facing, it is becoming even more evident that one resource they need to rely on desperately is teamwork. However, I too often see groups or sub-groups of employees or managers entrenched in their way of leading and “their” group’s ways of working, more interested at …
Scenario Planning
If I could get €5 for each time someone asks me when I think the pandemic will end, I could likely have saved a good sum of money. Rather than speculating on when the pandemic will end or hoping it will end soon, we need to plan ahead according to the various possible different scenarios …
Business Transformation
Years of research on business transformation have shown that the success rate for these efforts is consistently low: less than 30% succeed. Often, lack of employee communication, engagement and alignment with the new goals are the main reasons for such a high failure rate. So what is Business Transformation exactly? Business transformation is all about …
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