Leadership

Breaking the Accountability Dilemma: A Human-Centered Approach

By Howardco on Apr 9, 2025 in Executive Coaching, Leadership, Managing People, Team Development | 0 comments

Accountability is an integral part of team performance., yet for many managers it presents a dilemma. How can you and your fellow managers ensure accountability without undermining a culture of engagement and empathetic leadership? Accountability managed well fosters personal growth, builds confidence and lifts individual and team results but handled poorly it can...

How To Turn Your Strategy Into Reality

By Howardco on Feb 20, 2024 in Leadership, Strategy, Team Development | 0 comments

Out With The Old, In With The New!    Just like the vibrant scene above, we often kickstart the year by envisioning our aspirations and future successes.    Meet Emma, our main character in this story, a dedicated SME manager who may seem like a familiar face in your pursuit of objectives.  To kick off the year, Emma starts laying out her team’s grand...

What makes middle managers effective leaders in 2023? 

By Howardco on Jul 31, 2023 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Managing People, Team Development, Wellbeing | 0 comments

Maybe Pizza was enough… I have been fortunate in my career to have had a variety of management and leadership opportunities. My early career was forged in the Oil Industry with BP Australia as a Graduate when I got my first taste of what it was like to lead a team.  The call came late on a Friday when I was told the Manager of the Accounts Payable team was...

Performance Management Reinvented

By Howardco on Mar 20, 2023 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wellbeing | 0 comments

My most rewarding yet least satisfying performance review was… After I had done my self-assessment, I was eagerly waiting for my managing partner to arrive for my first performance review in my new job. I felt I was prepared. I had done plenty of performance reviews in the past, but now I was in a whole new league. I waited with some nervousness but also...

How to succeed in a challenging Recruitment Market: 5 Essential Insights and Strategies

By Howardco on Feb 16, 2023 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wellbeing | 0 comments

There is no doubt that the last 18 months have been challenging when it comes to recruitment. If you have found it easy you are lucky.  A lack of quality applicants, no shows at interviews and longer hiring times can be extremely difficult for business owners and managers wanting to fill important roles. As an experienced HR and recruitment consultancy we have...

How to make well-being your #1 retention strategy in 2023

By Howardco on Nov 7, 2022 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wellbeing | 0 comments

Burnout, change fatigue, overwhelm and exhaustion. Are these familiar terms? For the last 2 years we have been reminded to be resilient, adaptable, even pivot to out survive the pandemic. But has this all taken its toll on business owners and their workforce? I think you know the answer. But it’s not just Covid hangover that is impacting workplace well-being. We are...