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Overcoming a fear of feedback
This article forms part of a series focusing on giving and receiving feedback, one of the most effective tools to enable learning and growth in your people and organisation. Why focus on feedback? Because feedback when done well, provides you with team members’ perspectives that can lead to ideas and opportunities for business growth, increases […]
Staff feedback: You asked for it, now what?
Asking for staff feedback and then not acting on it can be worse than never asking for it in the first place. When you ask a team member for their feedback, they appreciate it. It makes them feel valued and heard. It subtly builds them up because it implies, “You matter. What you think, matters.” […]
Is Collaboration the Key to Effective Performance Reviews?
How to transform your good team into a great team Performance reviews are a staple within most organisations, but have you ever met someone who looks forward to them? Too often, both team members and managers dread the approach of annual review season. Why? In the traditional format, performance reviews are conducted once, maybe twice, […]
The Power of Goal Setting
How to Transform your Good Team into a Great Team Goal setting within your business is a powerful way to align your team. It ensures everyone is rowing in the same direction and focuses each person on what they personally need to achieve and improve upon this month and this quarter, to reach their personal […]
Meaningful KPIs
What they are and how to identify them You see them everywhere, key performance indicators (KPIs) are a cornerstone of modern management. On paper, the concept is deceptively simple: a list of things you expect your team to do, and against which you measure their performance at review time. Despite the apparent simplicity, many organisations […]
Team vs. Staff
How Important is Terminology? “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me” — we all learnt this as children, but anyone who has ever been called an unpleasant name can tell you it’s simply not true. Language is one of the most powerful tools human beings use. We are as […]
Turning Great Candidates into Classics
One of our advisers and directors Adam Hurwood had a chat with Alisdair Barr the director of Stiver Careers recently. Adam speaks about challenges and wins related running a successful Financial Planning and Accounting firm. He also covers how Balanced Scoreboard was developed, through the common goal of supporting high quality team engagement and results. […]
Measuring Team Member Performance
Episode 62 – Measuring team member performance with Brent Charlton Follow this link for the podcast which is streaming on Slipstream’s website or on any major podcasting platform now. In this episode of Slipstream’s podcast, Brent Charlton Director of Altitude Advisers speaks with Scott Charlton about measuring team member performance, as is it applied within […]