by Joe Espana | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog, Teams
Trust in teams is a fundamental pillar of employee engagement and ultimately team performance. But what can team leaders actually do about it? In his book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, Stephen Covey says: “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate,...
by Joe Espana | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog, Teams
The Challenge Our client was the new CIO for the UK business of global book publishing group Hachette. While the technology division had had almost a decade of major transformation success it had become siloed and disconnected from the business. As Chris...
by Joe Espana | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog, Teams
Crazy question, I know, but post-pandemic businesses are really dependent on collective effort, not individual performance, to move from surviving, to thriving and growing again. Like any sports team with star players, you still need the whole team’s effort to...
by Joe Espana | Jun 8, 2021 | Blog, Employee engagement
There has been a lot written in recent years about employee engagement, and if you have read any of the research by Gallup (et al) you will be pretty much convinced of the tangible organisational value of having an engaged workforce. With all the descriptions,...
by Joe Espana | Jun 16, 2020 | Case Studies
The Challenge How do you get all members of a team to feel valued and contributing to the business after an acquisition? Our clients, senior managers of the European division of a global technologies company, were less than happy with the level of human integration...
