“All of my day goes in meetings!” I commonly hear these words, or similar refrains, when working with clients in a coaching context. The sub-text is “I cant get anything done because meetings prevent me from doing my work” and a sense that “I have no control over this”. It doesn’t have to be that […]
Why is it so many learning and development (L&D) and change initiatives fail to deliver? I have recently had anecdotal feedback from several agencies that contributed to the last APS State of the Service survey. While individual results indicated that up to 80% of staff had been involved in L&D activities, in the preceding year, […]
Why is it that getting performance planning, personal development planning and performance reviews to work is so hard? In the past few days I had a discussion with a high level senior executive service manager responsible for human resource management for a large public sector organisation. He was expressing frustration about the unwillingness of people, […]