Performance management
Top Ten Tips… How to Build a Successful Team
You know you have a good team when everything clicks – the balance of skills, a shared ethic and ambitions. A good team will support and mentor each other rather than be competitive, be creative and forward thinking and will...
Top Ten Tips for… Taking Stock of Business Practices & Procedures
Top Ten Tips for… Taking Stock of Business Practices & Procedures Now the New Year festivities are over, January can feel like a tricky time for businesses of all sizes and genres. Customers are reigning in their spending after Christmas, the...
How to Work Smarter
How to Work Smarter A New Year spells a new start for many people, at work as well as at home. And, if like me, you’re thinking of how you can manage your work/life balance better, then the phrase “work...
This thing called Coaching!
This thing called Coaching! It’s amazing what people can manage to achieve in businesses today, and much of that is down to their level of motivation. In the difficult and competitive climate of business there is a need to maintain...
Case Study – How a Performance Management System Helped This Small Business
Case Study – How a Performance Management System Helped This Small Business Read on to learn how a focus on performance management helped change the leadership mindset in a small business. Our client profile ESC Global is a research and...
Know thyself!
Know thyself! How often do we hear of a business that values self-awareness amongst its leaders and actively promotes feedback? Research carried out by the Korn Ferry Institute in 2013 found that, “companies with higher rates of return on stock...
Top 10 Tips for… Developing Employees
Top 10 Tips for… Developing Employees One of the key responsibilities of those in a leadership position is to encourage and facilitate the learning of those they lead. No matter what size the organisation, creating a workplace where people are...
Top 10 Tips for… Developing New Line Managers
Top 10 Tips for… Developing New Line Managers Promote people into a line manager role because of their potential to manage people well, not because they are the most technically competent member of the team. Share the big picture and...
How Ongoing Performance Management, and Positive Feedback and Coaching Can Impact Performance
How Ongoing Performance Management, and Positive Feedback and Coaching Can Impact Performance Today I’m really delighted to introduce Sean Conrad a Senior Product Analyst at Halogen Software, a Certified Human Capital Strategist, and a frequent writer on the topic of...
An Alternative to Performance Appraisal
An Alternative to Performance Appraisal Back in the 1950s academics including Likert (1959) were reporting that “Performance Review interviews as a rule are seriously deflating to employee’s sense of importance and self-worth.” Many years later and still many employees question...
