How to make Performance Appraisals Work
Transform appraisal into a process for providing real performance improvement – 4 steps

There is nothing on the market that hits the concept of setting people up for success. Most performance appraisals have a negative motivational effect and focus on failure. Video topics: Why appraisal – correctly used the best motivational and measurement tool, The cost of appraisal, Making Performance appraisal an added value activity and The new role Setting people up for success– training – coaching-MBWA.

Organisational Motivational techniques THAT WORK!.
Re energise your organisation by creating an environment where motivation produces measurable results.

Lots of books on the theory – very little practical stuff about.
Video topics: Why don’t managers put motivational theory into practice ?,  Individual motivation – what has the manager control over?, Two techniques to improve individual performance, Why organisations fail to motivate, The MMM model for organisational motivation and Re designing Pay, bonus and goodies to get outstanding performance.  

A process approach to creativity
A process approach to make even non creative people creative

Video topics: Defining creativity, Reasons why we are taught not to be creativy, using a non creative approach to creativity, use of three processes to generate ideas and Use of three processes to transform ideas into actions.

Creating organisational agility through constant change
Global markets, technology innovation, customer expectations all require us to constantly change to be effective- to be successful agile organisations will be the business winners of the future.

The work on organisational change is available form a number of non-connected sources. The Land Organisational maturity study, Kotters model for change management, Tom Peter’s view of change, and “Who moved my cheese” which is about why individuals resist change.
The video medium give us the opportunity to bring all this together.

Video topics: The age of change – example of industries who did not change, Organisational change,  Individual resistance to change, A process to make change happen and Consistent change to create organisational agility.

Creating Performance oriented teams
Effective team working offers organisations the biggest performance increases – how to it – this video explains the process.

Videos on How to do it are becoming dated, the current offerings are from the likes of Jack Welsh, who talks about benefits rather than how to do it. Team working is one of the fastest growing and most exciting management topics today. The video would provide the process and methodology to put team work into action.


Video topics: Historical developments on the way we work, Creating the team, Leadership styles. Team styles, team development process, Types of teams – the road to high performance, Management ratios and Pay and rewards.

Making organisational training an added value activity.
Research shows conclusively that most training does not work, its expensive and ineffective- techniques to turn a cost into an added value activity

Little available on improving training from an organisational prospective – yet it’s very expensive if results are not forthcoming.

Video topics: Facts about the effectiveness of conventional training, Training costs – where is the pay back, Gathering training data – linking training to strategic goals,Evaluation of results and Making training an added value activity.