Tag: performance
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HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR COFFEE?
The office has a coffee machine for anyone to use, its one of the perks (pun intended) of the workplace. We want everyone to be on their A game, and a caffeinated team is a productive team right? That’s a theory anyway. The coffee machine is one of those that has the water reservoir at…
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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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WHO DOESN’T NEED A COACH?
It’s a trick question because almost everyone will benefit from coaching and often the people who benefit the most are the ones who don’t really need it. You see most people think of coaching as a remedial process, as something that is required to ‘fix’ a problem or address a deficiency. And while coaching can…
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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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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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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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