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Job Satisfaction and the $1 Trillion Problem

joan — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:53:07 +0000

According to an article by Gallup ‘This Fixable Problem Costs US Business $1 Trillion’ U.S. businesses are losing ship-loads of money every year due to voluntary turnover. And, they say, ‘most astounding part is that most of this damage is self-inflicted’ The go on to say that over half of exiting employees (51%) say that […]

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What can The Staple Singers teach us about management?

joan — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:19:50 +0000

‘If you don’t respect yourself ain’t nobody gonna give a good cahoot’ is one of my all-time favourite song lyrics (from The Staple Singers brilliant ‘respect yourself’) but it only occurred to me recently how relevant it is to management. Say what? Yep, I know it sounds random but (to badly paraphrase) if you don’t […]

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Performance Reviews: Treating Employees as Adults

joan — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:38:22 +0000

In a great article ‘Revamp Performance Reviews to Strengthen the Employee Experience’ Kaya Ismail quotes Tracy Cote, chief people officer at Genesys, saying “Employees hate performance reviews because they are [seen as] a waste of time. This is because employers fail to realize that employees want to be treated like adults. So, rather than giving […]

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How to Delegate – Getting Started (Steps Two and Three)

joan — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:35:19 +0000

In my blog ‘How to Delegate – Getting Started (Step One)’ we looked at a process for identifying which tasks you could delegate. Now let’s move on to looking at steps two and three HOW TO DELEGATE STEP TWO – IDENTIFY THE EMPLOYEE The second step of how to delegate is to identify the employee […]

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How to Delegate – Getting Started (Step One)

joan — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:18:49 +0000

Do you want to delegate but you’re not sure how to get started? In my blog ‘What is Delegation?’ I explained that some managers don’t delegate because they don’t see the value. Some managers tell me they do see the value but they don’t delegate tasks as often as they’d like because they just don’t […]

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How (not) to Give Criticism at Work

joan — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:48:10 +0000

In yet another excellent research paper by Leadership IQ ‘Fewer Than Half Of Employees Know If They’re Doing A Good Job’ the authors talk about the challenge of how to give constructive feedback. They say: ‘Around nine out of ten managers have avoided giving constructive feedback to their employees for fear of the employees reacting […]

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Performance Improvement: ‘What Get’s Measured Gets Improved’

joan — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:36:53 +0000

In an article ‘How Sheba Has Improved Its Internal Performance Over 50% Using A Simple System’ the authors describe how the online service marketplace start-up Sheba has dramatically improved its internal team productivity. They go on to outline some of the lessons learnt from Sheba’s experience. Here I’m going to focus on one of those […]

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Managing Up: Two Tips for How to Communicate with Your Manager

joan — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:15:44 +0000

In an article for Forbes ‘How to better communicate with your manager’ Shelcy V Joseph refers to research by Monday.com which shows that · 63% of people surveyed feel their teams can better communicate needs and goals · 28% of people reported not really knowing how they spend their time at work · 37% feel […]

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Performance Reviews: Why Are Employees Still Unhappy?

joan — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:39:10 +0000

In an article by Ben Wigert and Annamarie Mann ‘Give Performance Reviews that Actually Inspire Employees’ they quote the following statistics from Gallup: A mere 14% of employees strongly agree that the performance reviews they receive inspire them to improve, and only two in 10 employees strongly agree that their performance is managed in a […]

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Management Skills: Agile Culture and Agile Behaviour

joan — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:00:27 +0000

In a neat article by Jim Harter for Gallup ‘Why managers are Central to an Agile Culture’ he says: Only half of employees globally clearly know what’s expected of them at work — it’s hard to respond quickly and nimbly when you’re not sure what your responsibilities are. Interesting isn’t it? Depressing too? Or at […]

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