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A few months ago, we visited Palm Island – one of the most gorgeous places on this earth. Each morning I had the pleasure of watching a kite surfer set off with his backpack to surf the [...]

If you are still plodding along with annual appraisals, wasting time discussing things that happened 12 months ago, it’s time to consider how can you get real time performance data direct to your [...]

I work with companies to help them establish ways of improving performance and invariably HR comes under the spotlight too.  Ulrich introduced us to the concept of the business partner some years [...]

The most important lessons that I have learned in life and business have come from facing really tough challenges or making mistakes. Mistakes are a lesson in wisdom, part of life’s rich [...]

Planning to redesign your business operating model to align to a new strategy? Maybe it’s a digital strategy that will change how customers will do business with you and therefore how your [...]

“HR needs to be less plonky (take itself less seriously) and be more creative to engage more people” – Adam Ferrier. 

The organisational development and change management sector is strewn with different models and each has their own strengths and weaknesses – but here at The Change Directors we know that one [...]

Culture is important when you are implementing a new strategy. Before you begin implementing your new plans it pays to review your current culture and how it needs to change to create a high [...]

Last week we started the debate about EQ, Click here to read Part 1 if you missed this. The EQ aspirin Time is often wasted on unresolved conflict with negative emotional responses serving little [...]

It should be one of the hottest topics in 2016! The key to successful interactions with people – relationships, if you like – can be simply described with the following metaphor.