Leadership Toolbox: The Power of Parables as a Leadership Tool

Leadership Toolbox: The Power of Parables as a Leadership Tool

These stories have been passed down from generation to generation through story-telling — each story with its own significance and message. What makes these messages so important is that a key message is embedded into the story, which illustrates or demonstrates the message. Modern fairy tales and fables often contain similar messages that help children learn accepted and wise behaviours.

Hiring The Right People

Hiring The Right People

One of the critical success factors for developing a high performing work environment is hiring the right people. I believe that involves looking at 2 key areas when hiring; competence and character. Competence is the skills, knowledge and experience to do the job....

What Values Are You Communicating?

Recently I executed an employee engagement survey across a client organization. When I compared the senior executive team with the blended front-line results I discovered a very troubling outcome. The senior executives were almost unanimous in the belief that they had...