Management Perspectives

You do not lose authority because someone disagrees with you. You lose it when your behavior under pressure becomes inconsistent, reactive, or unclear. People watch how you respond when challenged. They decide in those moments whether you are someone who hides behind position or someone who leads the relationship as well as the task.

MYTH 1: Culture is your values, mission, and purpose statements.
MYTH 2: Engagement scores tell you how healthy your culture is.
MYTH 3: Culture is owned by HR.
MYTH 4: Strong cultures should be unified and consistent everywhere.
MYTH 5: Culture is soft, secondary, and separate from performance.

The journey to employee empowerment is not easy, but the rewards are substantial. Organisations that prioritise engagement will be the ones that thrive in the increasingly 

Digital or not, most transformations do not cross the finish line. You might achieve your numbers for a while, but then people slip back to the old ways of working and nothing sticks, leaving you to solve the same problem again. In order to outdo poor transformation and engagement stats, we must manage to engage because the future of business is (still) people.