Your job is what you do, not who you are In July 1999 when I was 16 years old and I left school, I started my career as an apprentice mechanical engineer. What is an engineer? In most people’s minds it is a person who works with their hands, fixes […]
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If you want to achieve something great, use what you have to help your people. Don’t use your people to help what you have. What is culture? What does culture mean to you? How can we change culture? A lot of organisations talk about culture and changing culture, but what […]
You cannot motivate frustrated teams if you don’t listen to them. Listening to our people’s frustrations, and helping them overcome their obstacles is how we motivate our people. To help our people become the best people they can be, we must help them to remove the obstacles in their way. […]
Live for the future, not your past. Embrace change. Organisations talk about how to embrace change a lot. It is often described as continuous improvement, and some will have a continuous improvement department. I actually went for a job in 2013 for a continuous improvement manager, but didn’t get it. […]
