Tag: behaviours
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HOW LONG IS TOO LONG IN THE ONE JOB?
One of the biggest issues for employees is “lack of career advancement” opportunities in their organisation. Almost every employee engagement survey will score poorly on this metric. Most people want to be able to progress and advance within their own organisation. It’s understandable, this is the place where they are building their expertise and technical…
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BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE BY DOING LESS…
Do you ever feel like you have just got too much on your plate? Every time the phone rings, or you check your emails, or someone from your team walks into your office, you end up with more things to do. You find yourself working back late or taking work home. Your sleep starts to…
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THE WORST MANAGER IN THE COMPANY…
One of the latest buzzwords floating about the internet is “Radical Transparency”. This means different things in different organisations, and while for some it means sharing the inner workings of the company with all employees to give them sense of ownership and involvement for others it amounts to little more than publicly naming and shaming…
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7 ATTRIBUTES OF GREAT BOSSES
Most managers would like for their team to like them, personally, as a person. Nobody likes to be disliked and we are all more comfortable with being the popular boss rather than the unpopular one. And if we can’t popular, appreciated and admired can we at least be respected in our role? There was a…
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THE MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF LEADING TEAMS
I was listening to a great podcast this morning about working with high performance sporting teams, and it got me thinking about leadership in any situation, including the workplace. There was a discussion about the mechanics and the dynamics of the team and here is what I understood that to mean. The Mechanics This is…
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THE INFINITE GAME (or THE CARROT CAKE SCENARIO)
Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game about developing a long-term mindset for your organisation. The focus being less about the P&L statement for the year, and more about having a vision for the type of legacy company that you will be leaving for the next two or three generations. As managers of people we could…
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“I’M OFFENDED”… CANCEL CULTURE IN THE WORKPLACE
The beauty and the curse of social media is that everyone now has a platform to voice their opinion. If your opinion is controversial enough, or you have enough followers, your opinion might even go viral. When that happens you will get extra exposure through the news outlets picking up the story and the next…
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IT’S OKAY TO BE THE BOSS… BUT BE HUMAN FIRST
Michael is relatively new to your team. He has come highly recommended, he did exceptionally well throughout the recruitment process, and in his first month has delivered some excellent work. If his work to date is any indication, he is going to be a bit of a superstar. You do have a couple of concerns…
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HOW WILL OUR KIDS SURVIVE THE WORKPLACE?
If you are a parent then you know what I’m talking about. You have dedicated yourself to protecting your offspring, providing everything they need and want (far more than you ever had growing up), keeping them safe from harm, from cyber bullying, from people being mean to them or saying hurtful things. Our kids have…
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IT’S A TEAM MEETING NOT A CHRISTMAS DINNER
I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of those family gatherings where the extended family gets together for the first time in a long time, and nobody has either forgiven or forgotten the debacle of the last one? Maybe it’s just my family? I remember one particular Christmas many years ago where my Dad…
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