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Guest post by: Ian Windle

BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING TEAM - Click To Read Article
When you see a high performing team, whether in sport or business, they really stand out. So what’s their secret? Are they just a better group of individuals brought together in one team, or is there something more to it? High performing teams don’t just happen by accident and there are always a number of common ingredients that they all share.

Great Stories Change Cultures - Click To Read Article
It’s always fascinating talking to clients and listening to engrossing, sometimes astonishing, stories about their organisations and their Brands – what surprises me is how few of the really good ones are used as company assets to strengthen their cultures and inspire their workplaces to positive change. Many change initiatives fail is because they rely too much on the classic ‘data gathering, analysis, report writing, and presentations’ instead of more creative approaches that use great stories to grab feelings and to motivate real performance improvement.

Engage my emotions and I'll follow your lead - Click To Read Article
Creating engagement and change in people requires the ability to tap into their emotions, rather than presenting facts and figures. This article explains why this is an essential skill for todays leaders and how they can go about it.

The 5 Cs of Change - Click To Read Article
Understanding how to coach, challenge and inspire others around us to change is so valuable in our daily lives, whether we are at work or play. You can have the most compelling personalities or the most extraordinary creative ideas driving the change – yet to no avail, without coupling them to the ‘5 Cs of change'. LiveChange’s 5 Cs of Change help any change to take place in our lives, be it in or out of the workplace – and you have to navigate all 5 steps in the right order….or you risk wasting your time. So what are the 5 Cs of Change?

MAKING GREAT PRESENTATIONS - Click To Read Article
Presentations should be fun, entertaining, informative, engaging and useful. So why is it that they are often confusing, boring and unimaginative? I bet more corporate hours are made putting together endless PowerPoint slides than almost anything else these days and to what effect? Of course it is something we all need to do and when progressing up the corporate ladder it is an essential skill to get right. Research on verbal v non-verbal communication is interesting. It suggests that the receiver trusts the non-verbal aspects of the speaker more than the actual words. So hold back on the overuse of PowerPoint slides and make sure you consider the ‘how’ as much as the ‘what’. The following article is a summary of some of the things I think you should consider when you have to make that all important presentation.

Winning Brands don’t stop at Customer experience, but do Employee experience too! - Click To Read Article
The customer experience and customer journey is now well used in the marketer’s lexicon. But how often do you see Employer Corporate Brands also use the employee experience and employee journey in their lexicons?

Creativity is just for those Agency types, right? Wrong! (Although they are quite good being creative!) - Click To Read Article
Creativity IS your competitiveness. If you are doing exactly the same as everyone else, then why would anyone use your company? You need to get the most out of your people. How do organisations release the creativity of their people? As sure as eggs is eggs business leaders don’t have all the answers, and the best businesses manage and lead their people in a way that empowers them to want to come up with the ideas, develop plans and own their implementation. This article gives you 10 steps to release the creativity in your people.

Moving to a 'consequential corporate culture' - Click To Read Article
In any organisation it is the behaviour of its’ people that lead to success, mediocrity or failure. Behaviours stem from a set of values that the organisation must understand and that leadership must role model. Behaviours must also have consequences for the values to have any credibility; an up side for good behaviour in terms of recognition and reward and a downside for poor behaviour in terms of challenge, coaching, training and development and perhaps even having to leave the organisation. In the article we provide 10 areas that you must focus on to embed values and the right behaviours in your business.

Five Myths about Knowledge Management - Click To Read Article
Knowledge Management is a common business phrase that is often misunderstood. Here is a short article that dispels the myths around it and demonstrates what it really is.

Productive Conflict in Leadership Teams - Click To Read Article
Productive conflict in leadership teams is essential if they want to be high performing. This has to come from a basis of trust, understanding and honesty. The Leader needs to role model the right behaviours for this to happen.

Your Core Values may be a waste of time - Click To Read Article
Core Values can be a waste of time if they are not completely integrated into an organisations Performance Management system, the Leadership Framework and the culture. This article provides concrete actions that must be taken to embed core values.

Are Business Games worth the money? - Click To Read Article
Business Games are booming in organisations today. So what are they and why should we use them?

10 Organisational predictions for 2010 - Click To Read Article
Working with the trends we have observed in 2009 and the continuing harsh reality in the business world, we have predicted the top 10 key issues for organisations in 2010





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