Tag: relationships
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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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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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THE ART OF THE ‘DIFFICULT CONVERSATION’
As a manager you will have had occasions I’m sure where you knew you needed to have a chat with someone in your team but you just didn’t do it. These situations can pop up at any time and often we might let the opportunity to address the issue slide right by. Why do we…
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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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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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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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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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