Does this sound like your company’s leadership team meetings? They’re an interruption. They distract you from real work and eat up valuable time. They’re random. You only meet when there’s fires to put out, and it’s a painfully chaotic process. They lack focus. Meetings are filled with meandering discussions that never really solve the real […]...
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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. […]...
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Many people are driven to open their own small business because of a specific passion. Not from the desire to actually “do business.” This means that very often, you have business owners who are quite talented at creating their products or providing their services but have not had much in the way of business education. […]...
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Once there was a time when the manager’s job was to supervise and control the people they managed – that is, to tell them what to do, help them to do it properly, measure their performance and reward are correct that performance as needed. Those days are long gone. Today the very nature of business […]...
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If you create a sound strategy and execute against it but don’t create an environment where people can do their best work, the likelihood of the strategy failing is high. The leader’s actions and behaviour significantly impact the environment and, therefore the performance of the team. So, leaders must focus on their behaviours that underpin […]...
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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 […]...
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