27/06/2024 No Comments

If You Want Talent Recruit Like A Marketer


Most businesses don’t do enough to attract people. In a market like this, when potential employees can have their pick of multiple job offers – you need to do even more. These days we have to look at recruiting like marketing. A business must cast the net wide by deploying multiple recruitment strategies to market […]... Read More

09/02/2023 No Comments

Incentivise, Incentivise, Incentivise


When your employees perform half-heartedly on the job, there is usually a simple reason why. A critical aspect of managing staff is incentivising them to do excellent work. Here’s a simple truth: when people’s earnings are tied to their performance, it’s a powerful motivator. On the one hand, it gives them a sense of empowerment. […]... Read More

08/12/2022 No Comments

How Well Do You Know Your People?


  If you struggle to keep your staff motivated, effective, and engaged, there is a powerful solution to your problem. When you take an honest inventory of the state of your staff and determine how well you’re doing, what are your results?  Are you frustrated by a lack of cooperation and positivity in your corporate […]... Read More

01/12/2022 No Comments

Six Characteristics of Healthy Teams


When it comes to your employees, do they work as a cohesive unit, or are there factions, backbiting, slacking off, and complaining? There is an important principle a business owner must understand if you want to create a work environment where people can feel empowered to operate at optimal efficiency: THE IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN MERE […]... Read More

11/08/2022 No Comments

5 Best Practices for Recruiting in an Employee Job Market


In this article, I look at 5 best practices for recruiting in an employee job market. Over the past 15 years, we have seen significant changes in the job market. The crash of 2008 led to a spike in unemployment and fewer open vacancies. Gradually over the recovery that has changed with us now being […]... Read More

23/06/2022 No Comments

What We Can Learn From Socrates About Staff Development


During my study for my master’s degree in Coaching and Development, I was tutored by some Olympic level sports coaches. They brought their sporting success to the world of business. Why’s this relevant? Well, let me explain the sporting origins of business coaching. The teaching of sports was tackled in the 1970s by Harvard educationalist […]... Read More