How to fully engage your team
Category: Blog | Team
Over the last year the importance of employee engagement and retention has continued to rise in businesses. Every company wants to attract and keep the best talent. The problem? Many employees in today’s job market quickly feel uninspired by their work, get bored after 2 years and start job hunting for something new. Not surprisingly…
Tags: | employee enagagement, leadership, management
How to stop an employee’s performance deteriorating…..
Category: Leadership | Team
For all kinds of reasons your best employee’s can experience a performance slump at some point. As a manager, you may not always find an obvious way to get someone back on track, but the investment of energy you would need to turn this situation around is still so much less than what would be…
Tags: | management
How discipline can lead to success
Category: Blog | Leadership
Scott Peck in his book The Road Less Traveled says that “without discipline we can solve nothing.” The most successful people in life are disciplined. Fact. Discipline is made up of tools we use to cope with life’s problems and challenges. Below I list some of the key markers of discipline: Hard working. If we…
Tags: | leadership, management
Save time by recruiting great managers
Category: Blog | Leadership
In a recent survey, Gallup found that one in two employees have left a job due to a manager. So why are managers such a problem in today’s workplace? The truth is, managing people isn’t easy. It’s one of the hardest jobs out there. Unfortunately, not everyone has those skills; yet those people end up…
Tags: | management
5 TED Talks to Improve your Leadership
Category: Blog | Leadership
As a coach, I’m always on the lookout for new inspiration and tools for helping others improve leadership. Learning about other people’s experiences, strategies, and ideas about leadership. Here are 5 of the best TED talks that summarise what makes great leaders Simon Sinek, “Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe” Simon Sinek affirms that…
Tags: | leadership, management
How to Be an Effective Leader of a High Growth Team
Category: Blog | Leadership
There are no shortage of books and blogs on leadership styles and techniques, containing multiple different styles and techniques for leading. After recently reading a variety of articles and books on this topic, I noticed common themes that leadership experts such as Simon Sinek, John Maxwell and Daniel Pink are aligned on. While this is…
Tags: | leadership, management
10 Traits of Exceptional Leaders
Category: Blog | Leadership
Over my career I have had the privilege to both work with and alongside so many remarkable leaders. These are individuals have the ‘magical’ ability to inspire and motivate others. In reflecting back on my interactions with these exceptional individuals over the years, I’ve observed they share several attributes that set them apart: They trust…
Tags: | management
5 Employees You Should Fire Now
Category: Blog | Team
Over the years I’ve worked with just about every type of employee you can think of and, in my experience, there are more or less five kinds of people you simply have to get rid of, no ifs ands or buts, and sooner rather than later. They overpromise and underdeliver Some people have inflated self-images…
Tags: | management, team
How to provide feedback employees will value
Category: Blog | Leadership
With the recent launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy, Elon Musk may have one of the best quotes for taking advice. He said, “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” So as a leader what is the…
Tags: | management
How to motivate misfit employees
Category: Leadership | Team
An employee feeling out of place at the office can hurt productivity. Every company I work with has them: the team members who don’t quite fit in. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. A study published in the Academy of Management Journal finds you can help “misfits” by giving them more control over…
Tags: | management
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