"It is no use saying 'we are doing our best'. You have to succeed in doing what is necessary." Winston Churchill

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people." Thomas J. Peters

"The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition." Peter Senge

People are the cornerstone of your business because they are the ones that deliver the performance!

But let’s be honest, people can also cause the biggest headaches within an organisation! Conflict, lack of motivation, poor performance and weak leadership are just some of the challenges we face when we are trying to achieve performance. And when you are a small or medium sized organisation these challenges are amplified because every person counts.

It is estimated that up to 80% of an organisation’s assets are tied up in the employees. If any employee disengages by even as much as 10%, you are losing the productivity of 1 person for every 10 that you have working for you! No organisation can afford that loss of potential and productivity so it is essential to have effective managers and good systems in place to unlock the potential of your employees. Low skills add to ‘transaction costs’ and therefore impact sustainability

• How do you engage everyone and keep them focussed in an expanding business where roles and responsibilities are not clear?
• How do you keep talented employees when you may not have apparent career paths to offer?
•  How do you get people to work effectively together and avoid conflict?
• How do the technical experts make the transition to managing a team?

If these are some of your challenges, then the good news is that Cornerstone Connections can help you! Cornerstone focuses especially on supporting small & medium sized organisations in the greater CT area because I understand the challenges faced by this sector and SMME’s are often too busy and can lack the experience to focus on strategic people and organisational development.

Solutions are customised to the client needs, designed to meet specific goals and delivered by an accredited practitioner (me!).

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Kind regards

Marion