AFS Consulting

In my earlier blog review of his book, The Luck Factor, Richard Wiseman said that you too can train yourself to be a luckier person. What he meant of course is you can train yourself to adapt the attitudes and behaviours of ‘lucky’ people, and see if you have more

Summary: Employee Engagement is the new ideal of organization effectiveness and HR often sees itself as the champion of it. Champion maybe, but EE is an organizational leadership issue for which all of senior management must be responsible. Article: I recently presented a workshop on this topic to a group

HR as a strategic member of the executive team.

Summary: To be an authentic leader an executive must master the art of delegating – both responsibility and authority, and accepting that accountability always resides with the executive. People are motivated by the work itself (Herzberg) – to plan, organize and do the work and to be evaluated and recognized

{This blog is actually a rather long summary (sorry!) of a book I found interesting, largely because it ties nicely into some other reading and life learnings I’ve done lately and integrate into my coaching programs in some way. This blog is actually a summary of of my own ‘Readers’

Summary: HR as a profession takes onto itself too much responsibility (angst?) for the management of human resources. This is misplaced – management of people is the job of managers. If managers were perfect at it (or if people were actually robots) there would be little need for HR Professionals.