Chief Happiness Officer: is it really the right name?
In this blog Andrea Cardillo shares his reflections on the role of the Chief Happiness Officer.
Insights • Culture
Don’t Let Stress Control You: Discover Effective Tips for Finding Balance
Work can be demanding, with workloads increasing, and emails, messages, and virtual meetings piling up. It can be challenging to maintain a work-life balance, and when this balance gets disrupted, job...
Changing Company Culture – Practical Steps for HR Leaders
The HR department is central to change management of organisational culture – or at least it should be. It’s essential to first understand that culture change starts with leaders, but now that we have...
Leaders as culture carriers: why the problem and the solution are within you
“As a leader, a lot of your job is to make people successful,” wrote Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet. Nowhere does this principle hold truer than in role-modelling organisational culture....
Organisational Culture Q&A
In my previous blog From Wolf Pack to Living Organism – how organisational culture has evolved and why it matters for leaders, I provided a summary of Laloux’s book Reinventing Organisations.
6 Characteristics to look for in organisational culture
In our previous two blogs we tackled the importance of organisational culture and how it can be measured. We analysed why we cannot separate organisational culture from the hard statistics in our business....
Can organisational culture be measured?
We follow up our blog on what organisational culture is with a discussion by TPC Leadership’s Andrea Cardillo on how organisational culture CAN and needs to be measured.
What is organisational culture – and why should you care?
In the first blog of a series exploring Organisational Culture, TPC Leadership’s Christian Scholtes explores what organisational culture is and why you should care.
The HR manager’s guide to developing leaders vertically
When we consider vertical leadership development (see here here blog 01 of series) from an HR perspective, it is quite different to horizontal leadership development. We’re talking about developing people’s...
How to evolve from Achieving to Transforming
Broadly speaking, there are two types of leadership development: horizontal and vertical. While many organisations invest resources in the former, which adds skills and knowledge to a leader’s toolkit,...
How organisational culture has evolved and why it matters for leaders
One of the most important things a leader can understand is the culture of the organisation in which he or she works, and the wider systems, processes and structures that govern it and fundamentally direct...
Models of Vertical Leadership Development
In our introduction to Vertical Leadership, we talked about how developing as a leader isn’t just about adding more tools to our toolkit. It’s about increasing the capacity of that toolkit.