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Tag Archives: Colleagues
When the whistle blows
Those working in highly regulated sectors are already aware of the risk of litigation if an employee blows the whistle. However, international statistics show that most whistleblowers choose to report misconduct internally before approaching a regulator. So, senior managers’ decisions … Continue reading
Empty corporations
As business develops in Africa, many of us are reconsidering the ways in which organisations should be structured and run. As a rule, enterprises that achieve growth beyond the SME level look to copy historical models from overseas. These models … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, America, British Industrial Revolution, Business, Colleagues, Corporations, Customers, Employees, Enterprises, Global financial, Managers, Organisations, SME, Suppliers
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Bonding not building
‘Let’s have a teambuilding’ is a popular cry. When employees say it they’re usually asking for a little relief from weekly routine and hoping for a treat. When HR people say it they may want to spend a budget but … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African entertainment, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Budget, Building, Colleagues, Employees, HR, Organisation, Sales Director, teambuilding, Vodafone UK, YouGov
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Workspace woes
The world of work still needs an effective solution to the shaping of productive office space. Here in Africa, relatively few of us have the privilege of working in offices. Far more people work in small retail outlets, factories and … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, The Brand Inside
Tagged Academia, Africa, Business, Colleagues, Company, Employees, Environments, Europe, Factories, Harvard University, Managers, Open plan office, Researchers Ethan Bernstein, Retail outlets, Sociometric badges, Stephen Turban, work, World
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Incivility is counterproductive
One of the many differences between people on either side of the Millennial divide is their approach to email. Those of us who began to work before the dubious blessing of email tend to aspire to ‘zero email’ – the … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal Communication, Social Media, The Brand Inside
Tagged Business, Calvinist zeal, Civil people, Colleagues, Constituencies, Customers, Email, Leaders, Millennial, work
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The bureaucratic condition
Working in organisational transformation certainly produces some home truths. The latest for me has been realising how deeply bureacracy resonates with human beings. I mean as a default behaviour, especially in times of stress. In employees, stress is routinely caused … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Local Brands, Machine and human, Marketing Strategy, Millenials, Social marketing, Social Media, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Behaviour, brand delivery, Bureaucratic, CEO, Change programmes, Colleagues, committees, Communicate., Company, Corporate, Customers, Employees, Job, Marketing team, Millennial, Organisational transformation, teambuilding
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Broken teams
Building branded businesses takes true collaboration over time. Teamwork is hard to build and easy to lose. Years ago the management guru Tom Peters warned leaders to watch for three warning signs of a broken team: Constant firefighting in your … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Direct marketing, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Market Research, Social marketing, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Branded businesses, Colleagues, Companies, employee, Europe, Founder’s Syndrome, Human behaviours, Leader, Management guru, Micromanagement, Middle management, Organisations, Safaricom
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Burst that bubble
Like any consultancy business, we work across multiple business sectors and, in our case, geographies. This produces insights on brands and company cultures that surprise me. Not for the insights themselves, but because they apply across so many types of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Direct marketing, Internal brand, Millenials, The Brand Inside
Tagged Account teams, Africa, brands, Business, CEO, Colleagues, communications, Company, Competitors, Consultancy, Cultures, Customers, Geographies, Leaders, Market, Millennial, Staff members
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Sticky middle slows business
Just when you thought you had enough problems dealing with Millennials in your organisation, here comes another demographic that requires your attention. Tim Gould, Editor of HR Morning once said: “I’ve been promoted to middle management. I never thought I’d … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, The Brand Inside
Tagged Business, CEO, Colleagues, Company, customer experience, Decade, east africa, Economies, Experience, Junior employees, Medical care, Middle management, Millennials, Operation, Organisations, Switzerland, Treacle layer, University
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