Culture & Engagement
Peter Drucker said “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” It’s true. I work with business leaders and the People Teams to help make getting this essential part of your business work. If you get your culture right and really embed it in all aspects of the way you work, hire, make promotions, reward etc. it can transform many businesses. The tricky thing is getting it right across the board and keeping true to what your culture stands for and aligning the why, how and what of your business. I can help you work on:
Defining your culture
Driving cultural changes
Motivating and connecting people with your business strategy
Create sustainable engagement through measurement, action planning and development review
Management & Leadership Development
The effectiveness of a leader in a business is the single most important factor in the performance, retention and development of its people. The expectations we have of our leaders is increasingly high, their development drives strategic and commercial advantage.
I work with Leadership and People Teams to design programmes and development that delivers simple, but practical solutions that make a difference to a leader’s ability to improve performance and engagement.
Team Building & High Performance
Working out how to create a balanced team, establish healthy ways of working and in the long term sustain high performance can be tricky. All teams go through transition points and sometimes external support and facilitation is what’s needed to get things on track.
There’s a number of different ways to create the team culture and ways of working that gets the best results. It often starts with good discussions, setting a clear plan, playing to each others’ strengths and building trust as well as having agreed ways of working.
Diversity, EQUITY & Inclusion
Getting the approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in your business right is a complex issue. Whilst it is something that across society we are more aware of, this doesn’t mean we have the answers or can assume it’s all fixed. Our bias and prejudices are always in our brains, it’s part of being a human.
The benefits of having a deliberate focus on DEI are worth focusing on and are well established as including:
It broadens the talent pool that you can attract people from, making the quality of your hires better
People who work in your business are more comfortable being themselves. Research shows that diverse businesses have significantly improved performance and engagement, they also have lower staff turnover
By leveraging different backgrounds, life experiences, cultures and perspectives problem solving and creativity is improved
It makes your products and services more representative of your customer demographic which in turn improves profitability
I can help your business establish your DEI strategy and have experience of creating a sustainable approach to driving inclusion in a way that fits your business culture.