Meetings within organisations can be a costly business, in terms of salaried hours of attendees, travel costs and and potential time lost in other value adding activity. Evaluate the value of your meetings by using the Alignment model.
Most employees have appreciation expectations and want their contributions to be valued and recognised. However, some employees may not need external appreciation, relying more on their own assessment of their work, but definitely want recognition from their peers. So how does a manager discover each person’s expectations and meet them in the right way?
Most organisations will tell you that their people are the most important resource they have and that looking after them and developing them is paramount. So why is it that the person who is Head of HR is often not represented on the Board and if they are, they often have to shout loudly to be heard?
‘Someone somewhere in the organization is unhappy about something but we don’t know the details and can’t therefore have a progressive conversation’. Why do organisations involve themselves in the anonymity of such surveys?
12 principles of effective training: Things to consider when designing and delivering effective training, courtesy of Realisation at Stenhouse.
To significantly increase employee engagement you need to understand the passions, motivations, and expectations of the individual, and use an approach based around engagement being a shared responsibility between the employee and the organisation.
Think you did a great job but you’re not hearing any response? What is really happening when the feedback tumbleweed is rolling…
Where do you focus to help your leaders and managers to develop more effective behaviours and strategies to improve these skills and bring better success in their role?
Scoot Theatre’s Scoot Youth exists to empower young people, practice grit and resilience and celebrate the value of a “growth mindset” through their devising work and help nurture confident, resilient young people, committed to making a positive impact on the world around them.
Living by rules alone creates barriers and structures and limited thinking. Living with constant choice, on the other hand, can create chaos.
Communication is one of the most important skills a successful leader can develop. Here are 5 areas you could consider if you want to do a bit of work on your own communication skills and style
Too often at the end of work we’re still mulling over unsolved issues/problems which can spillover into and impact home-life. Try this simple habit changer to free yourself to start the next activity.
Dr Dan Harrison, the creator and developer of the Harrison Assessment and Talent Analytics tools, talks with Gerry Murray – Author, Leadership Coach, NLP Trainer and fellow Harrison Assessments Managing Partner
Free 1hr webinar for people development professionals. Use objective data to inpire a culture of engagement, identify talent and develop leadership competence for high performance.
Unconscious patterns which can make us either unconsciously trust or mistrust people are common in organisations…
The paradox of OPINIONS – what it can look like when the balance between CERTAIN and OPEN/ REFLECTIVE is off-kilter, and what it can look like when balance is achieved.
Living Up to Company Values – How do you know when you interview someone for a job that they will live up to your Company Values? Here’s an approach to help you match behaviours to values….
Developing resilience, combined with perseverance, will help you and your team not only to succeed in the good times, but to learn, grow and succeed through the crises, set-backs and ever-changing landscape.
The paradox of POWER – what it can look like when the balance between ASSERTIVENESS and HELPFULNESS is off-kilter, and what it can look like when balance is achieved.
Developing resilience, combined with perseverance, will help you and your team not only to succeed in the good times, but to learn, grow and succeed through the crises, set-backs and ever-changing landscape.
Communication is one of the most important skills a successful leader can develop. How our communication is received will depend on the perception and viewpoint of the person receiving it and is open to interpretation.
The paradox of COMMUNICATION
Leaders need to be able to balance FRANKNESS and DIPLOMACY – one dynamic and one gentle trait – to achieve optimal behavioural performance, balanced versatility and effective communication.
Leaders need to be able to balance two seemingly opposite traits – one dynamic and one gentle – to achieve optimal behavioural performance and balanced versatility. Here we look at the paradox of strategically managing risk – what it can look like when the balance is off-kilter, and what it can look like when balance is achieved.
Quadrant 1’s Pat Hutchinson talks to Gerry Murray about personal development and leadership and what it’s like to learn and apply practical things after you go on a training course.
We’re often taught in business that decisions should be made based on facts, data and evidence. But relying on evidence alone can leave you with just half of the picture.
10 Leadership competencies you can be measuring and developing in your leaders…
Advanced analytics are designed to support development interventions which will generate an engaged, progressive culture that is vital to the success of any organisation.
What are you doing about Assessment Centres right now? Current norms are preventing us in many cases from running traditional Assessment Centres but that doesn’t mean you can’t still identify top talent and potential leaders accurately and effectively. You may argue that there is ‘nothing like the real thing’ but we believe we can offer […]
Remote Working Analytics With improvements in workplace technology and the effects of lockdown restrictions, the number of people working remotely in the UK increased dramatically from 4.6 million in 2019 to over 20 million in 2021. This figure has settled in the last year; 30% of the UK workforce was working remotely at least […]
Letting Go of the Day Job I work with leaders from a cross section of organisations, helping them to transition from being an expert in their field to taking on leadership roles. We have known for a long time that leaders often feel bereft at having to let go of the day job and try […]
The Lunacy of People Assessment A thought occurred to me recently. If your organisation measured growth in sterling for the first quarter, US Dollars for the second, Yen for the third and Euros for the fourth would you think this a sensible idea? When your children were growing up did you measure their height in […]
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With the UK Learning and Development Report 2018 showing that 94 per cent of the best performers surveyed say learning and development is critical to success it is essential that development programmes are successful, effective and represent an appropriate return on investment. But how then can you measure the success of a development programme?
One of the major reasons for losing talented staff is that they are not being given the developmental opportunities they often think they deserve – or expect – and look elsewhere. So understanding and exploring employees career development expectations is another key factor for engaging and retaining top talent.
A report by Blessing White outlines research they undertook to examine the dynamics specific to leading technical people – a competency that proves to be increasingly important for almost every organisation in every industry, even those we might think of as less expert-dependent.
Understanding employees’s expectations towards authority helps to analyze the relationship between the desire for autonomy and the level of initiative, the relationship between the desire to lead and the willingness to make decisions, and how an individual responds to structure.
If the cost of poor communication is: mistakes, wasted time, wasted money, bad recruitment, missed sales, dysfunctional teams, poor morale and slow innovation – what is the value of good communication?
And… what does ‘good communication’ mean to individual employees?
Many tools will measure current employee engagement levels according to factors set by your organisational expectations, but how do you determine which factors are personally important to your employees, and therefore will keep them in your organisation?
Competency frameworks are playing a bigger and bigger role in decision making re recruitment, succession planning and talent management. So why is it that such an important feature of the organisation is measured in such a subjective way?
How about cloning your best performers (the good bits!) to create a super team? Performance Benchmarking makes it possible…
The competition for top talent is fierce – so what can employers do to make sure they attract and retain the top talent – or rather, what should they not do? Read on for some major booboos!
In this day and age where mental health is such a big issue, are we really still asking employees to spend this short window in their working day, not on taking a breather and relaxing, but on focusing on… more work?!
In this day and age of virtually full employment it can be difficult to recruit and retain your best talent. Recruitment alone is a costly process. So what makes someone come to your organisation in the first place and what makes them stay?
As we begin 2018 and the uncertainty over Brexit continues companies and organisations will be positioning themselves to be at the front of the queue in markets new and/or old. We look at the productivity equation which will help you achieve this
Have you got the right sales people in place and is your reward scheme set up properly? This business mustn’t have got the memo!
People who learn NLP have a deep insight into the way people communicate, learn and approach change. Read on to find out what results such insights can bring to your business
I’m delighted to have been asked to speak at the 2018 NLP International Conference on 18-20th May in London… In an interactive, upbeat workshop on the Saturday afternoon I will explain why Harrison Assessments is Perfect Partner for NLP!
Sounds reasonable! Belinda’s doing a great job, let’s see if we can find more Belindas (or Bobs!). But how? What is it about Belinda or Bob that really makes them successful not only at their roles but also in this particular organisational environment?
If you were about to recruit someone into your organisation who was going to play a pivotal role in your company’s success (that’s everyone by the way!) would you want someone who was average or someone who was excellent?
Many organisations assume the responsibility for talent management lies solely with HR. An effective and well-organised business will take a collaborative approach, sharing the responsibility across all core functions. This enables the talent strategy to be linked to the core business objectives.
If you want to earn a higher salary, the excepted way of doing it is to take on more responsibility and possibly undertake further training.
For those who want higher pay, this can often be the sticking point, particularly if they are not self-motivated enough to develop their own careers.
Understanding employees’s expectations towards authority helps to analyze the relationship between the desire for autonomy and the level of initiative, the relationship between the desire to lead and the willingness to make decisions, and how an individual responds to structure.
Understanding employees’s expectations towards authority helps to analyze the relationship between the desire for autonomy and the level of initiative, the relationship between the desire to lead and the willingness to make decisions, and how an individual responds to structure.
If the cost of poor communication is: mistakes, wasted time, wasted money, bad recruitment, missed sales, dysfunctional teams, poor morale and slow innovation – what is the value of good communication?
Good communication is a key indicator of how your employee engagement strategies are working.
The greater part of a worker’s day is spent in the work environment, so not surprisingly employees want good relationships with the people whom they spend the majority of their time with: their immediate co-workers, other employees, supervisors and bosses.
One of the major reasons for losing talented staff is that they are not being given the developmental opportunities they often think they deserve – or expect – and look elsewhere. So understanding and exploring employees career development expectations is another key factor for engaging and retaining top talent.
Although much has been said and written about work-life balance, the focus has been on organisation-wide policies and initiatives, but what about individual employee’s real needs and those of their team colleagues?
Asking the right questions, and analysing each individual employee’s real engagement factors ensures managers and the wider organisation provide an environment that retains the best talent. People want to feel recognised but there are other factors that need to be understood if they are to further engage in their work and the overall success of the organisation.
Employee engagement is a hot topic—and for good reason. It can have a major impact on key organisational metrics including talent retention, growth, and profitability. This white paper includes key pointers to help you achieve greater performance metrics.
Hiring the right people isn’t just about recruiting the people who have the technical abilities you need, it’s about engagement and finding those people who will enable your business to succeed. Here are 5 recommendations from the CIPD.
Managers often fall into the trap of being either too harsh or too permissive. Both of these traits are due to an imbalance in management style. The secret of effective management is to understand a number of paradoxes and the ability to balance two opposing behaviours.
An example of how an organisation creates a profile against which behaviours can be measured accurately against advertised values.
Read how Harrison Assessments helped a large, successful beverage company transform its culture to facilitate greater motivation, accountability, collaboration, communication, trust, cooperation, and mutual support.
Some managers make excellent leaders, but many never make the grade. The one foundational strength found in effective leaders is ……. courage.
All too often meetings take place through a sense of duty and those attending often feel they have no choice in whether to attend. Here’s some useful pointers to ensure a productive meeting for all.
Effective management is about effective communication. Surveys also tell us that on average 70% of employees are disengaged from their work. What is going on? What are managers missing? The answer is surprisingly simple…
Unless you have been holed up in a bunker all week-end, you cannot fail to notice that as a nation we are not leading the field in our sporting achievements and our education system is in crisis. The Rugby World Cup Stuart Lancaster was brought in 4 years ago to lift England from the abyss […]
“You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp Benchmarking Top Performers The most successful businesses employ the right staff in the right roles. What makes someone ‘right’ for a role? How do you ensure every person in your business performs at the highest […]
Quadrant 1 are proud to support the ‘Get Britain Standing’ campaign aimed at increasing awareness and education of the dangers of sedentary working and prolonged sitting time. The British spend a staggering 8.9 hours each day ( on average) sitting down. Major international research has produced compelling evidence that sitting for more than 4 hours […]
At Harrison Assessments we are often asked if we can measure the behavioural traits that make up Emotional Intelligence. The short answer is that, because HATS utilises working preferences the whole system measures emotional intelligence. If we enjoy what we are doing then emotional behaviour will reflect that, if we don’t then our emotional behaviour […]
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I attended a Harrison Basic Accreditation Training Course in the spring. The course took place at the beautiful Middle Aston House nestled in the picturesque Oxfordshire Countryside. I am not a HR specialist my background is firmly rooted in marketing. I now run my own IT & Marketing Consultancy business. I have in the past […]
Here is the next blog in our series of ‘Meet our Team of Harrison Assessments Consultants’. Today we would like to introduce you to Gerry Murray, a Master NLP Coach and Trainer who works with leadership teams to enable them to inspire their people and take performance to higher levels of excellence…..
Welcome to the first in our series of ‘Meet our Team of Harrison Assessments Consultants’. Today we would like to introduce you to David Klaasen, a highly skilled trainer, coach and facilitator who specialises in leadership and management development…..What do you enjoy most about your work?
Keeping and engaging top talent is a key factor to success and bottom line impact so what can employers do to make sure they attract and retain the top talent? Read on for details…
There is a strong case for measuring engagement and retention in organisations and using the right tools is essential. Providing accurate engagement survey analytics to leaders who believe employee expectations are important, will enable them gain higher levels of engagement.
Organisational restructures come about for many reasons, the challenge is to get the right people in the right place at the right time. Here’s a suggestion…
Performance reviews often use measurable goals to identify areas for development but rarely do they measure attitudinal abilities. Here’s how one college is using appraisals to measure cultural values and behaviours.
We never cease to be impressed with the time and effort organisations put into producing competency frameworks. So why is it that such an important feature of the organisation is measured in such a subjective way?
Late last year the Society for Human Resource Management published the results of a survey of the top HR challenges for the next 10 years. The results show some significant changes with *developing corporate leaders, retaining and rewarding the best employees among the top challenges.
Leadership development is traditionally conducted via a programme or an executive coach. Both methods have their merits, however stakeholder centred coaching adds valuable dynamics for even greater results. Here’s why….
One challenge for HR Directors is establishing a talent management solution which gives real, progressive data on attracting, developing and retaining the best talent. So what if HR professionals were able to predict job performance and success, identify career development opportunities, measure company values and benchmark excellent performance?
Do you have the capability to source the right talent for your organisation? According to a recent People Management article and some research completed by the CIPD, it seems conventional ways of recruiting and retaining top talent no longer cut the mustard. So what’s the solution……
In our role as development consultants to organisations we see many different cultures – some highly effective, some not so. So how do you measure the success of company values and culture? It’s a simple process…
Most people would agree they would like their leaders to be competent, knowledgeable, visionary, progressive and decisive with excellent interpersonal skills, innovative and open to new ideas. But how do you measure these traits?
