Workplace culture directly influences the success of a business. A positive workplace culture is characterised by respect and high levels of employee engagement. This has the ability to contribute directly to a culture of high performance, innovation and creativity. A positive workplace culture also results in lower absenteeism and less staff turnover. This means that high […]
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How do you manage someone you don’t like? Richard Feloni wisely states ‘Don’t let personalities influence the way you manage’. So goes the saying – ‘Like attract like’. It is easy for a manager to build rapport, feel comfortable with and ‘get along’ with employees of similar personality. Without conscious thought, friendships develop and start […]
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A: The workplace is both, according to Dr David Rock, who holds a professional doctorate in the Neuroscience of Leadership, is CEO of the NeuroLeadership Group and co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute. The concept of paid work stems purely and solely from the business needs of organisations who have employed staff to provide labour or […]
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Do you have an employee that is finding it stressful to fulfill their tasks and performance obligations? Very often, when an employee claims that their work tasks or expected performance standards are causing them stress, employers tend to panic and immediately look at modifying their duties to avoid a claim for stress under the workers […]
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As soon as we take our foot off the pedal in terms of looking for and learning from informal and formal learning opportunities and observing, reflecting and questioning our core character, actions, relationships and self-development – we stop growing. The gap between who we think we are and how others perceive us widens. Eventually, as […]
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Organisations are now starting to use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool – a cost effective method that cuts out the recruitment company costs. However, prospective employees are also using LinkedIn to vet your organisation and in particular the manager and colleagues they could be working for. Guy Kawasaki promotes this method on his blog page […]
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A blog item by Team Management Systems likened active listening to playing the game of ‘Chinese Whispers’. Even when the starting person initiates the game with a simple, short sentence and distractions are kept to a minimum in a quiet room – the end person still doesn’t always get the complete and accurate message as […]
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Do you ever feel as though you have to stand behind some of your team members and metaphorically ‘push them’ to get any movement forward in completing work to the standard or timeline you find acceptable or to encourage them to join in team activities or help others in the team? Have their been times […]
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In a Business Review Weekly edition (BRW May 5 – 11, 2011 page 14), Michael Sherlock, co-founder of Brumby’s Bakeries explained how profiling and feedback improved the Executive Team’s performance. This Executive Team completed the Team Management Systems (TMS) ‘Types of Work’ and ‘Team Performance’ Profiles with feedback being provided via a 5000 word report […]
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A: Not what you are thinking! Real Answer: The ability to move your team (the object) to get the most output for the least input! Q: Is this always possible? A: Yes. Usually when we recognise poor teamwork we ‘push harder’ with our solutions and our efforts to encourage and motivate. However, finding the real sticking […]
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