Business Directors and Senior Teams, by this point, will have hopefully, spent time reflecting and reviewing the performance of their business in 2016. These leaders will have asked themselves – Did we achieve what they set out to achieve last year? What did we do right? What went wrong? What do we need to do better this coming year?
Were you pleased with how your business or team performed?
The CIPD Management Agenda 2016 found nearly 4/5 managers believed developing leadership and management capability is their main challenge, with over 70% citing that employee engagement, morale and succession planning was their key issue.
So, having reviewed 2016, and developed a vision and strategy for 2017, the only thing left to do now is deliver! All that needs to be done is align the workforce. The easy bit, right?To do that, all you need to do is…
- build trust
- gain buy-in
- engage everyone
- ensure all teams pull together and work effectively together (despite their differences!)
- communicate effectively
- lead the business from where you are now to where you want to be
- ensure brilliant management practices and procedures
- develop everyone so they are able to do their jobs
- and finally motivate, motivate, motivate!
As we know, this can often be where that beautiful vision starts to falls down and without the necessary skills, tools and resources the task is not just difficult but IMPOSSIBLE!
It’s not all bad news though! Fruitful are here to tell you that there are brilliant tools on the market to help you address every one of these issues, tools that will turn your SWOT analysis ‘weaknesses’ and ‘threats’ into definite ‘strengths’ and ‘opportunities’.
It’s not all bad news though! One tool that supports in every one of these HR challenges is Everything DiSC®. A simple model and behavioural profiling tool, developed by Inscape, and now owned by Wiley, that is being chosen in the UK and across the world, by many large organisations to help them achieve their people and business goals. Everything DISC® is not fussy. Its simplicity, accessibility, and genius works for everyone, and any business.
In fact, our clients include some big reputable brands such as Microsoft, Amazon, Sodexo, HSBC, some Public-Sector organisations, NHS Trusts, SMEs and charities.
Would you like to know more about how Everything DiSC® could support your People Agenda? Would you like to add another tool to your toolbox to ensure you and your business are equipped for the year ahead?
Call us for a FREE specialist, learning and development consultation to learn about Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ and our Official Certification Programmes.
“Heidi developed and delivered a 2-day custom certification programme for trainers and HR partners in our organisation. Heidi worked with us closely on what we hoped to gain in the programme and checked in regularly to make sure we were tracking to expectations. It was a great two days. She is a strong facilitator and our group learned much about effectively managing a DiSC session by observing her methods. Heidi is very approachable and the training felt comfortable and productive. She is credible, professional and responsive. I was completely pleased with her work and would certainly recommend her to others”.
Kim Hefley– Senior Leadership Development Manager at Amazon
