Tag: engagement
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BE QUICK TO FIRE, SLOW TO HIRE (Part 2)
You know what is worse for your business than a vacant role? The wrong person in the role. Even more damaging is when they stay and stink the place up for years, doing just enough to keep getting paid and not get themselves fired.
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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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DON’T BRING A KNIFE TO A GUNFIGHT
Performance management processes are designed to be a developmental approach to helping the employee achieve the required standard of performance for the role they are in. This is a remedial process where the manager works with the employee to guide, coach and mentor them to build the skills and capabilities to be effective at their…
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WHEN YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING…
If you manage a team there is going to come a time when you need to have a conversation with one of your employees about their performance, or conduct, or both. How you handle that conversation is going to have a few important and lasting effects. It will definitely determine the relationship you have with…
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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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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS PROBABLY NOT THE PROBLEM
Many organisations conduct annual employee engagement surveys to track the level of ‘engagement’ in the workforce. The metrics will be based on a range of survey questions asking how people feel about their supervisor, their career development prospects, the recognition they get, the organisational mission, vision and values, and the performance of the executive team. …
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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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