How do you measure employee engagement? Why do you measure it? Why is it important? If employee engagement is a means to an end – productivity, performance, creativity – then why not measure success in terms of your purpose? Scientifically, the more directly you measure something, the less opportunity for error and bias is created.
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Personal Productivity
Productivity is about getting more done with less. It doesn’t mean working longer, it means working smarter. Unfortunately, modern technology does the exact opposite of making you smart, by constantly distracting you. Enjoy the video.
Continue readingManaging Individuals
Do you manage Individuals or do you manage a cohort of Human Resources or Units of Labour? The problem with human beings is that they have feelings and a brain. They sense when they are cared about and when they are not. If you don’t manage your organization with your people in mind, they won’t work with your organization’s needs in mind either. The odds are that you haven’t experienced a team working, with their brains and good-will, releasing voluntary effort. If you had, you wouldn’t need to watch this video!
Continue readingHigh Performance Teams
Are you responsible for Team performance? Do you think about how to create high Team motivation? You know you are measured by how well your Team performs. You want to be better! Enjoy the video
Continue readingNeed to increase employee retention?
Do you find your new starters often leave within a year? Are your recruitment, induction and training costs a major budgetary item? Time to do something about your recruitment process!
Continue readingProductivity through Gamification
Have you, or someone you know, been totally addicted to a game? Minecraft,Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario? Avid players become totally absorbed in the game, in the “Flow”, and lose track of time. They put every ounce of effort into achieving the objective. They even read about how to do it, how to improve their game playing skill! Don’t you wish people showed the same addiction to their work? Why don’t they? Enjoy the video!
Continue readingLeadership and Communication
You will have heard that to be a great leader you need to be a great speaker. You need to stand before your employees and inspire them with your stirring oratory. It’s a useful skill to be sure, but Leadership comes in as many styles as there are people. Clear communication is the requirement. A quiet word can be equally, if not more, motivational. Please enjoy the video.
Continue readingFocus on improvement, not results
We all have targets don’t we? The target at the top determines the strategy and the direction of the organisation. Have you ever been on a trip with your children and five minutes down the road they start with “are we there yet?” If you have you know how annoying, frustrating and miserable the journey can be! It’s supposed to be a fun trip! Is your Boss one that asks “are we there yet incessantly”? Don’t be the Boss that asks that! Watch the video for what to do instead – the clue is in the title!
Continue readingThe Bradford Factor or how not to manage absence
The process to manage absence relies on data. One of the problems of data is that it is easy to create, instead of being easy to use. The Bradford Factor is a wonderful example. Anyone who has had a face to face meeting with someone to understand and improve their pattern of attendance at work knows this!
Continue readingWhat people want: Achievement, Recognition and then Money
What people want from their employment is obvious. If only people were that simple! Of course, we all need money to live, but how does that explain the millions of hours of volunteer work that is done every year? What is their reward? If you are designing your work environment so that money is the only reward, you are relying on the weakest of three primary work motivations. You can expect to pay a lot!
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