Four Ways to Build & Maintain Employee Engagement
The risks and costs of allowing engaged employees to become disengaged, and how to avoid it happening. Everybody wants engaged employees who are committed, energized and enabled in doing their work....
View ArticleThe Cost of Employee Turnover
Losing staff can cost you more than you know! It is only in recent years that businesses have started to assess the cost of employee turnover. For many years it has not been an area of priority, simply...
View ArticleFreedom & Choice
Choosing your own way, and choosing to be free of interference from others in doing so What does freedom mean to you? You will come up with many answers covering many concepts, situations or contexts...
View ArticleLeveraging Deadlines
How to use deadlines to your advantage We often live in fear of deadlines or see them as the main source of our stress. You know how it goes: “Only two months left to make your annual target”, “The...
View ArticleEmpowering Your Employees to Empower Themselves
How to create an environment that empowers people. As a manager or leader, do you let your people assume more responsibility when they are able? Do you know when that is, or do you keep telling...
View ArticleThree Trust-Building Behaviours
There are three ways to build trust both for yourself and with your team: Create transparency this is telling the truth in a way that people can verify and validate for themselves. Keep your...
View ArticleHelping Employees Engage Themselves
How to encourage employees to engage themselves in what they do! There is a problem with employee engagement. And I am not talking about the reports decrying the low levels of employee engagement in...
View ArticlePutting Active Questions to the Test
A study carried out by Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith look at testing the effectiveness of active questions with employees who underwent training. In short, a passive question begets a passive...
View ArticleThe Three “A’s” for Dealing with Conflict
Attacking.Abdicating.Accountability. When dealing with conflict there are only three ways in which you, or your reports, can respond. These are attacking, abdicating and being accountable. Attacking –...
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