Tag: behaviours
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ANY CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS IN YOUR TEAM ?
As a manager, you’re not just leading a team; you’re also part-time psychologist, mediator, and sometimes, a traffic cop trying to navigate the chaos.
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BE QUICK TO FIRE, SLOW TO HIRE (Part 1)
I’d love to be able to say that “a wise man once said Be quick to Fire, Slow to Hire” but honestly it could have been anyone with an ounce of smarts.
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GOOD TO GREAT MIGHT HURT A LITTLE…
Liam loves being in the spotlight, will put his hand up to lead projects, talks the most in meetings, and has stated a number of times that he needs to ‘build his resume’. He is young, ambitious and looking to climb the ladder. The problem is that Liam is, as my client described him, all…
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
It seems to me that much of the focus of HR in dealing with workplace issues is often punitive. It’s all about investigating incidents, collecting evidence, formulating allegations and searching for breaches of the code of conduct or xyz policy. It’s about hitting people with some sort of sanction for not following procedure, issuing a…
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BOSSES BEHAVING BADLY
There is an interesting shift going on at the moment. More and more people are coming forward and reporting their bosses for bad behaviour.
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OKAY… NOW WHAT DO I DO?
There is a statistic floating around the internet that we make around 35,000 decisions a day. Seems like a lot doesn’t it? These include unconscious decisions that we don’t even think about, like which hand will I use to brush my teeth this morning? Will I turn right or left out of my driveway this…
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DO WE NEED TO MEET OR IS AN EMAIL OK?
These days we tend to communicate online a lot of the time. Anyone with a young person in the family will know that the portable supercomputer they call a phone and keep on them at all times of day and night is NOT for making phone calls. It is for tweeting, snapping, gramming, TikTok, WhatsApp,…
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ARE YOU TAKING HOSTAGES?
Do you know where Stockholm Syndrome comes from? In August 1973 a bank robbery at the Sveriges Kreditbank in Stockholm didn’t go as planned. The bank robbers held four employees hostage in the bank’s vault for six days. A weird thing happened over those six days. The hostages began to form a bond with their…
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WHAT GOT YOU HERE…
A few years ago I was working with a CFO who had come to me for advice on how to deal with her direct reports. She felt that they were not meeting her expectations, that she had to closely monitor them and their work, that she couldn’t trust them to do it her way, that…
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