Dealing With The Performance Management Offensive

Realism – The Starting Point We all need to be realistic about what’s going on in Lloyds! As top management in companies tend to do, the people behind the offensive against staff have come up with what probably seems a bright idea – pinching someone else’s...

Freedom of Speech – It’s All Or Nothing

“Free speech”… “free speech”… “free speech”… the political debate on freedom of speech in both the UK and overseas is all over the news, politics and social media at the moment. Lloyds Bank’s decision to permit an obviously political set of statements in a recent...

It Wasn’t ‘Baldrick’!

Members in one area of Lloyds received an unsolicited email inviting them to participate in National Inclusion Week by attending a meeting to learn more about the LBG Inclusive Networks. However, instead of leaving it at that the author of the email unleashed the...

Performance Management

The Background One of the realities of management is that there are very few new ideas. Top managers in organisations either bring with them what they learned (good and bad) in other organisations, such as offshoring and outsourcing, or re-hash other people’s ideas,...

Missing The Bandwagon

Our Newsletter yesterday on the Bank’s plan to axe thousands of jobs using ranking and yanking – which we’d been told about from well-placed sources who attended a senior executive meeting with Charlie Nunn and Sharon Doherty – was covered extensively in the Financial...

Forced Yanking

What makes a high performing organisation was discussed at a recent meeting of directors and senior executives from Lloyds Banking Group. We understand from numerous sources that Sharon Doherty, Chief People and Places Officer, said in high performing organisations...

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