Delegation Vs Abdication – Are You Delegating or Abdicating? Most small to medium business owners are ambitious entrepreneurs which means, when their business idea is successful, making the transition from solo worker to manager can be tricky! Learning the balance between delegation and abdication is an important place to start! Delegating by definition Delegating is…
How to Measure Employee Engagement Do you know how engaged your employees are? Since engagement is an emotion that is hard to quantify, probably not! A certain level of emotional intelligence is needed to try to quantify employee engagement so, for the most part, you’ll have to be intuitive! Look for key indicators There are…
Does laziness really exist? I have had a few conversations recently where the employee was said to be under performing or certainly not performing to the potential and were incorrectly labelled as lazy from their boss. Confirming this to the employee didn’t amend their behaviour either and in the eyes of their boss, this just…
Stay Motivated as a Manager Most people think managers are highly motivated – it’s their default setting. And that’s how they got to top in the first place. The real truth is that, just like everyone else, someone who has reached the heady heights of management can find their motivation flagging. Here are some simple…
The Importance of Good Management Skills in Business With such good tools, advice and resources at our fingertips these days, there are more new businesses than ever. Not everybody who creates a business is prepared to be a manger but the important thing to remember is that management isn’t a skill you are or are…
Coaching the Uncoachable A manager has many roles and responsibilities and coaching and mentoring their employees is a big one! In fact, a manager who doesn’t might see that his employees don’t feel valued and leave. There are, however, great managers who have employees that just can’t be coached. Here’s how to coach the uncoachable.…
Change Management – How to help guide employees through multiple changes When it comes to organisational changes, employers may need to guide their employees through any changes that are made that can affect their duties or their employment with the company. Change isn’t just a challenge for managers and supervisors, but for every employee within…
Office Bullying Not everyone likes to admit it, but bullying is still alive and well in the adult world. In most cases, bullying occurs in the office environment and it can turn very hostile very quickly. It has been suggested that the office ‘queen bee’ type of bully typically begins being problematic after having been…
Why Your Good Employees Are Quitting and How To Keep Them All businesses have some degree of turnover of staff. Even if good employees are completely happy working for your company, they may still decide to leave and for a wide range of reasons. It’s not always about the business itself. The problem for many…
Empathy as an Effective Leadership Skill What is Empathy? Empathy is one of those feeling that is more focused on someone else’s needs than our own. While many people often confuse sympathy and empathy with each other, the two terms are very different. Sympathy is agreeing with the way someone else is feeling, empathy involves…