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Research among top performing organisations has shown that if they can improve their performance with ‘people issues’ across the organisation, including leadership and management, communications, staff involvement and recognition, they will also improve their commercial performance, including enhanced customer service, productivity, quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
“A leader is best when people scarcely know he exists. A good leader talks little and listens much. When his work is done and his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did this ourselves.” Lao Tsu (5th Century BC).
"Managers light a fire beneath, leaders light a fire within."
We will help you answer the ‘big picturequestions:
what’s really important to you and your business?(organisational values)
where do you want to go from here? (your vision)
what is the big picture? (your aims)
how do you get from here to there? (your strategy)
how will you measure your progress along the way? (your milestones)
how will you know when you’ve got there? (clearly defined goals)
"In 2001 NHS Logistics began a change journey aimed at enhancing their commercial performance through a programme of organisational development activities. Carole Appleby worked alongside me, supporting this process, developing and embedding a set of values and leadership behaviour changes.
Strong values can act as ‘organisational glue’ to companies trying to create change, which helps to prevent things from falling apart. What people hold as important, and the beliefs they hold dear, act as mental programming to guide their decision-making. This was to be the key to NHS Logistics’ culture change programme, encompassing both the ‘vision and values’ stream alongside a leadership development programme for its senior managers.
Our challenge was to get employees to ‘live the values’ in their daily working lives so that they would begin to make a real difference to the culture of the organisation."
Jos Finer, Training and Development Manager, NHS Logistics Authority
Research among top performing organisations has shown that if they can improve their performance with ‘people issues’ across the organisation, including 