Most business leaders buy-in to the fact that effective performance management is an important way to get the most of your staff, and ultimately for their businesses to achieve their goals But making the most of the performance management process is a complex task to master. Particularly when business-critical issues are leading you astray. Help […]
January can be a thoroughly dull and dismal month, and if you’re feeling a bit down in the dumps, then you’re definitely not alone. The festivities are over, the weather is miserable, and there’s pretty much a full six months to wait before your summer holidays will come round. Right about now, you’re probably considering […]
If you’re anything like my family this Christmas, then the newest member of your household will not have been a dog, cat or hamster, but something altogether less high maintenance: Alexa. Essentially a voice service, accessed through the Amazon Echo (which sold into the millions this Christmas in the UK alone), Alexa allows you to […]
A healthy dose of feedback is unlikely to be at the top of your christmas list. But constructive, 360 feedback is the gift that keeps on giving and could be the key to unlocking the growth potential that you know is there in the business you love. Sounds great, right? AND it’s free. No fancy […]
Everyone hates doing it. Nobody looks forward to it. But sometimes it’s necessary. Click on the image below to check out our new video showing you How to deliver feedback…when it’s bad Image credit: Bob AuBuchon
At some point, your growing business will require you to do some restructuring and introduce one or more levels of management. This will open up a great opportunity for you to develop a small proportion of your people into team leaders or managers – perhaps even into managers of managers. Recruiting new managers from within […]
What actually is a leader? If you asked 10 people for a definition you would probably get 11 answers. One of my colleagues once commented that (in relation to a leader we both knew) “he may not always be right, but he was always certain!”. And it made me wonder how leaders could be so sure […]
When we think about underperformance we predominantly relate it to new or nearly new employees, when issues can be put down to recruiting the wrong person or mismanagement in those precious first few months . After all, the process of finding the right member of staff can be tricky, and there are many things that […]
As an SME you should have a high concentration of talent and it’s vital to your business’ success that you retain that talent. And that means investing in it. Don’t make the mistake of putting the onus on the individual to provide their own path to personal and professional development, although your immediate focus is […]
We all know that successful teamwork is the key to productivity in many aspects of work. And whilst most teamwork is found through generic work practices and sound motivational and leadership actions, there comes a time in the year when people need a bit of a gee-up. And this is when the suggestion of some […]
