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Three Questions About Managerial Leadership

8 February 2023

Rafael Beran Bruno (Managing Director) - Instituto Pieron (Bioss Brazil)

When facilitating development programs for managerial leaders, we like to encourage the following reflection(1): Put yourself in your subordinates’ shoes and tell me if they can adequately answer these three…

To be in Flow

28 November 2022

Rafael Beran Bruno (Managing Director) - Instituto Pieron (Bioss Brazil)

Capability, Flow and Engagement, Leadership

The need to recognise and reward the contribution of employees, especially where this pertains to their retention, has resulted in many leaders focusing on motivation as a key factor to…

Diamonds in the Rough – Great Managers and Leaders are rare.

31 August 2022

Lisa Ashton

Assessment, Capability, Career Path Appreciation (CPA), Leadership, Talent Management

According to Beck and Harter (2022), Gallup found in a recent study that one of the most important decisions companies make, is whom they appoint as managers. Their analytics suggest…

Levels of Work Complexity and Job Grade: Are they the same?

3 May 2022

Jacques Haworth

Capability, Career Path Appreciation (CPA)

Currently, many organisations utilise requisite organisation principles (based on the work of Elliott Jaques) to design their organisations, and to subsequently match individuals to the work complexity as part of…

Judgement in Uncertainty

28 March 2022

Lisa Ashton

Systems

In a 2020 article published in the Harvard Business Review, The Elements of Good Judgement, Sir Andrew Likierman explored the concept of Judgement, guiding our understanding of this concept and…

‘Unleashing your Potential’

23 February 2022

Sonia Jardim

Capability

Human Potential There are no limits to Human Potential, however, we have as a society created certain boundaries that limit the extent of what we have been able to achieve.…

Gamified Assessments & Return on Investment

12 January 2022

BIOSS SA

Assessment, Personality

By 2024 the Global Gamification market is predicted to have a market valuation of $40 billion up from $6,8 billion in 2018. Given the growing size of this market, and…

Nature of Work Reviews: A Case-Study

27 August 2021

Paul Leibowitz

Assessment, Capability, Career Path Appreciation (CPA), Consulting, Employee Engagement, Flow and Engagement, Organisational Design, Structural and Talent Analytics

Background Bioss SA recently completed a Nature of Work Review (NoW) for one of our clients in the mining sector. The client brief was for Bioss SA to complete a…

An Introduction to Requisite Organisation (RO) and Levels of Work (LoW)

27 May 2021

BIOSS SA

Leadership, Assessment, Capability, Career Path Appreciation (CPA), Organisational Design, Structural and Talent Analytics

RO theory was developed by Dr Elliott Jaques who conducted more than 50 years of scientific research into the nature of work and people’s capacity for work. In 1964, he…

The BMI of Leadership Talent: Are you in the healthy range?

5 March 2021

Jacques Haworth

Leadership, 360 Leadership Survey, Assessment, Capability, Career Path Appreciation (CPA)

The medical term BMI (body mass index = weight/height2) is used to screen for weight categories that could lead to health problems. If we apply a similar logic to leadership…

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Three Questions About Managerial Leadership

To be in Flow

Diamonds in the Rough – Great Managers and Leaders are rare.

Levels of Work Complexity and Job Grade: Are they the same?

Judgement in Uncertainty

‘Unleashing your Potential’

Gamified Assessments & Return on Investment

Nature of Work Reviews: A Case-Study

An Introduction to Requisite Organisation (RO) and Levels of Work (LoW)

The BMI of Leadership Talent: Are you in the healthy range?

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