Category: Management
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MAYBE IT’S TIME TO GO…
I normally write to managers. To the leaders who are out there dealing with the people challenges that keep them awake at night. To the supervisors who have a few people who are acting out, not pulling their weight or disrupting the team. Today I’m writing to the employee. To the one who has found…
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WHEN WORK FEELS LIKE A BATTLEFIELD…
Twice this week I’ve had clients tell me that they are having challenges dealing with ‘combative’ employees. I thought it was interesting that they both used the same word, combative, and it got me thinking.
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LETS START PUTTING PEOPLE BEFORE PROCESS
I am constantly amazed by the speed with which managers will move to a formal process, either a workplace investigation or a formal performance management process. They seem to think that the formal process will deliver the necessary positive outcome… but it doesn’t. A senior manager asked me the other day how many formal processes…
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PSYCHOS IN THE WORKPLACE
“A toxic work environment is more likely to change you than you are to change it.”
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I‘LL TRY TO MAKE SOME TIME FOR THAT…
A client was complaining to me that they have a senior manager who is always late to meetings, arrives flustered and unprepared, gets distracted by emails and messages on her phone during the meeting and often misses work deadlines.
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YOU NEED TO ADVERTISE A JOB?
A little known fact is that I started my HR career in recruitment. Sadly, I still see employers making many of the same mistakes they were making way back then. Here are some practical tips on how to start making better recruitment decisions.
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WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP LEAVING ME?
We often hear that “people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” I feel like this puts a lot of pressure and blame on managers, and that it might just be a little unfair.
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WHAT IS A ‘PEOPLE FIRST’ CULTURE?
People first is not just a series of check boxes. It’s the way we speak to and about each other, it’s the way we listen to and support each other, it’s a philosophy and a mindset, it’s a way of being in the workplace.
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CAN I JUST SACK AN UNDERPERFORMER?
You’ve raised your concerns with them too many times over the past few months and nothing has changed. You have had enough and this underperformer needs to go. So what’s your next move?
The Workplace Coach 