Blog
Managing The Gap With Your Next Salary Reviews
Strategies for Maximising Salary Reviews in a Competitive Job Market We are coming to that time of year when many organisations are planning their salary reviews for the next financial year. Employees, on the other hand, are anticipating their up-coming salary reviews, and setting their expectations. Generally, key factors dictating salary rises include employee performance, […]
Why does ‘accountability’ get such a bad rap?
How to Transform your Good Team into a Great Team Mention accountability and performance reviews, and you will often get a typical response of negativity among team members and managers, or even dread. So why do such accountability systems get such a bad rap? An Accountability study revealed that more than 4 out of 5 […]
The Many Hats of great Leadership
Explore how effective leaders and managers incorporate coaching into their other skillsets to unleash the potential of their team. This posting follows on from a recent article we published The Coach Approach to Management, which you might also find useful to take a look at. In that post, we highlight the differences between coaching and […]
The strategic performance review – the evolving face.
How to make your performance reviews really deliver. Despite all the additional and informal ways being promoted today for engaging employees, periodic performance reviews still stand as one of the best ways to formally measure, engage and plan the goals and activities of individual employees. However, the old ‘tick and flick’ performance reviews to meet […]
Measuring Employee Well-being
Why we would want to and how we might do so. The Economist group whitepaper recently stated that Business leaders need to add well-being measurements to their executive dashboards. To counteract the great resignation, they stressed it is not enough to introduce employee wellness initiatives, but that businesses need to be able to measure the […]
The Coach Approach to Management
Coaching VS Managing – What’s the difference? There are many leaders and managers who believe they are ‘coaches’ of their team at work. However, many of these same managers are vague about how coaching conversations vary from management interactions. Coaching for performance is a proactive and skilled practice that requires its own skillset. In coaching […]
Leadership and team performance – connecting the dots.
When we look at great leadership qualities, society often seems to revere confidence and charisma above many other personal traits for achieving success. Certainly, charismatic business leaders, tend to be great ambassadors, conveying vision and confidence in their products and services, that assures an organisation’s clients and team members. But does charisma motivate greater performance […]
A new playing field: What is the future of the workplace?
Exploring the future of corporate life in a post-covid19 work from home landscape. It would be great to have a crystal ball and see now what our workplaces will look like in the future. With COVID, our workplaces have journeyed through necessity, from the traditional ‘in the office’ for most employees, to work from home […]