By: Rachel Hunter – August 2015 The Global Financial Crises caused a huge ‘knee-jerk’ reaction in companies as, in the panic caused by financial institutions and markets collapsing around the world, many of them sort to safeguard there future, most often via drastic and rampant redundancy schemes. There are several ironies about this, the most obvious one…
By: Judith Kors – August 2015 There seems to be a million and one metrics for appraising people in the workplace these days but, ultimately, isn’t it performance that really matters? Now, we’re clearly not saying that the other stuff doesn’t matter and, let’s be honest, the ‘other stuff’ is all there (or should be) to…
By: Judith Kors – August 2015 There’s something of a paradox going on in the world of Frontline Managers. Basically, at a time when over 90% of a group of more than 600 executives from around the world said in a ‘Harvard Business Review Analytical Services’ study that they felt that a lack of adequate leadership…
By: Daniel McCorry – August 2015 It’s not uncommon that a person with all the necessary skills, experience, and capability to qualify as a manager can still fail in building the relationships needed to be a trusted leader. Here’s four small tips you can use yourself and/or pass onto the managers in your organisation to…
By: Rachel Hunter – August 2015 If you want to truly excel in your role then finding a suitable mentor is an excellent (some would say ‘essential’) part of achieving this. Many organisations offer mentoring programs, however, the most beneficial mentoring tends to come from developing a relationship with a mentor that you have identified…
By: Judith Kors – July 2015 Here’s a nice simple one to take home at the end of the day (…and week…and month)… It’s strange. The ‘performance appraisal’, something that is ultimately aimed at improving the standards, capabilities, and productivity of the workforce can, if not done properly, do the exact opposite, leaving staff negative,…
By: Daniel McCorry – July 2015 If you wanted to nominate someone (or even yourself) for the prestigious ‘AITD (Australian Institute of Training & Development) Excellence Awards’ then you’ll need to get your skates on because tomorrow is the very last day they’ll accept applications. The awards were launched in 2002 to recognise excellence in learning…
By Judith Kors – July 2015 There is one big paradox that seems to affect a LOT of Learning and Development Managers…whilst they are all working really hard to develop the capabilities of their organisation’s staff, they are rarely (if ever) doing anything to develop their own capabilities! There appears to be a variety of…
Building on our previous article ‘5 Simple Ways You Can Support Your Frontline Managers’, today’s article takes us a step before that and looks at ways we can assist Frontline Managers actually make that difficult transition from a team member to a team leader… By: Daniel McCorry – July 2015 Whilst a promotion from being…
By: Judith Kors – July 2015 So we’re almost at August already (where on earth did the first half of this year go!?!?). By now you should have (hopefully) be past the worst of the end-of-financial-year work and, if you haven’t already done so, started thinking about how you’re going to spend your 2015/16 budget by…
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