When I’ve been working with people managers to help them apply effective leadership practices to improve employee engagement and performance, I’m often astonished by how many say that they “don’t have time to do this”. They’re in paid employment as people managers, and they’re telling me that they don’t have time to manage people!
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How to Embed Leadership and Management Skills
October 25th, 2010
Leadership and management training is provided within many organisations. Leadership skills, on the other hand, are less widely applied. Teaching managers new skills is one thing. Getting them to apply what they have learned is another matter entirely
Read more...How to Boost Productivity by Taking Control of your Email
March 30th, 2010
One of the tricks to maximising employee performance is to minimise any work that conflicts with your people actually doing what they are being paid to do
Read more...Stop Kidding Yourself
March 16th, 2010
We all deceive ourselves about something. And mostly it’s harmless. You know how it goes. My rear doesn’t look big in this. I don’t drink too much. I’m pretty fit. But sometimes it’s harmful. I see this from time to time with frontline managers
Read more...What Drives Employee Engagement? Part 2
March 2nd, 2010
Last week we took a look at the things that managers can do to make behaviour inefficient, and thereby ensure poor performance from their team. This week we’ll take a look Gilbert’s model for engineering high performance. And we’ll compare the factors in that model with the key drivers of employee engagement identified through global research
Read more...What Drives Employee Engagement? Part 1
February 23rd, 2010
Employee engagement, or employee motivation if you prefer that term, is important to you and your organisation. There is now considerable evidence from many sources that low employee engagement generates lower employee productivity, business unit performance and profit; along with generating higher employee theft, accident rates and employee turnover
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