Tag: engagement
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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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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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MY NEW BOSS IS BULLYING ME…
The new boss has just started and while we are all going to miss Alison, the team is feeling pretty positive about things and looking forward to what this new guy, Michael, is going to bring to the table. We’ve come through COVID relatively unscathed, we’ve enjoyed working flexibly and we’ve continued to deliver against…
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IF YOU ARE GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION…
I’ve worked with a number of organisations who regularly conduct employee engagement surveys. These surveys typically have somewhere between 40 and 90 questions and cover a range of topics including: Employment Conditions, Career Objectives, Conduct and Performance, Manager Capability, Leadership Capability, Communication and Consultation, Development Opportunities, and so on. The point of these surveys is…
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HOW IS YOUR TEAM MOJO?
How are things in your team these days? Is everybody pumped and firing on all cylinders every day? Or are things a little flat like the party balloons from Susan’s birthday morning tea last week? Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers, has 5 tips for leaders who want to inspire and motivate their teams. 1. Utilise…
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RECOGNISE YOUR MVPs BY INVESTING IN A COACH FOR THEM
It used to be that when the boss said they were organising a coach for you there was a sense that there was something wrong with you, that you might be the problem, that some sort of deficiency needed to be addressed. Assigning someone a coach was often part of a remedial performance improvement plan,…
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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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5 TIPS FOR NEW MANAGERS
Congratulations !! You’ve just won the job and now you have your own team to manage. Its exciting isn’t it? You get to set the direction and make the decisions now, and it is what you have been working towards for a while. You have finally got your own office and your name on the…
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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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INVESTING IN YOUR PEOPLE
There is an old joke about the dangers of investing time, money and effort into your people… CFO says: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave?” CEO says: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?” I’m not sure why people think this is a joke because the reality of…
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