Category: Denise Ali

For all those performance management specialists out there, what is the most effective prescription to assess, manage and drive the performance of senior company executives? Like all experts, we start off by saying “it depends”. Performance assessment systems are usually built around achieving predetermined deliverables ranging from financial to non-financial and also including some discussion...

Which comes first employee engagement or financial success? Those of us who have spent many man-hours in understanding employee engagement, developing and implementing engagement programmes and measuring the results may be tempted to render the above statement a rhetorical one. It could be argued that financially successful companies have more money to spend on their...

The term “Workplace Civility” came up at one of our subsidiaries operational meetings and it sparked my interest. We may argue that humans have evolved or progressed but from a conceptual perspective it seems we have come full circle in a kind of pseudo-progression. The insurance company Geico says “even a cave man could do...