Tag: leadership

Five Ways To Enhance Board Oversight Of Culture

Group of business people with alphabets signs forming the word Culture on table. Top view of business people discussing over work culture in a meeting.

Oversight of culture is a growing issue in the boardroom. Here are ways boards can challenge and support management in realising the company culture’s value. Corporate culture is defined by the implicit, unwritten rules that create expectations for how people choose to behave. It is reflected by what people actually do every day, by what’s… Continue reading Five Ways To Enhance Board Oversight Of Culture

Active Listening: Hear What People Are Really Saying

Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on your job effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others. For instance: We listen to obtain information. We listen to understand. We listen for enjoyment. We listen to learn. Given all the listening… Continue reading Active Listening: Hear What People Are Really Saying

How Self-Aware are you? Do you appreciate the importance of Personality Type?

  Office politics is an umbrella term that encompasses many things. On one hand, it can refer to behaviour whereby co-workers step on their colleagues in the interest of getting ahead at all costs. On the other hand, office politics at its best can describe a dynamic of cooperation, not competition. When colleagues vary in… Continue reading How Self-Aware are you? Do you appreciate the importance of Personality Type?