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If you’re looking for ideas or a little inspiration in relation to engagement, workplace culture and leadership in your small business, you’ve come to the right place. Browse our articles below.
Focus on Leadership and Culture: Humanistic-Encouraging
In a recent blog, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviour, and their impact upon business and organisational performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A...
Are you Getting the Biggest BANG for your Training BUCK?
As business owners and managers, we all know the importance of ensuring that every dollar we spend is working for us, so with employment-related expenses being amongst the largest expenses that most businesses have, it's essential to ensure that we invest particularly...
Leadership: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
Search for "leadership" on Amazon and you will be invited to purchase more than 117,000 books on the subject. It's been a prominent item of discussion in business improvement circles for decades. This is not without good reason though, with effective leadership...
Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership
Objectively addressing matters such as culture and leadership in a business or organisation can be a tricky business. Individual views of what constitutes "good" cultures and leaders can differ for example, and pinning down just what our current culture "is" and what...
GROW Your People, Grow Your Success
Effective Leadership is one of the core elements of our exclusive Success Through People(c) Model, and is key to diving business performance and profitability. One of the common attributes of highly effective leaders is that they are inevitably great...
Staff Recognition, Chocolate Frogs and More – The Keys to Successful Staff Recognition Programs
Handing out a few chocolate frogs at a staff meeting does not in itself a recognition program make! So, you're taking the plunge and are planning to implement a staff recognition program….great stuff! It seems easy enough - throw out a few bottles of wine or movie...
Here’s an I.D.E.A. – Provide Effective Feedback
A common challenge for many supervisors and managers when it comes to managing people is providing effective feedback. This is particularly the case where they need to give feedback to a team member who is presently not meeting expectations and/or where they...
The Perfect Workplace – What Would It Be Like?
Cleaning out my office the other day (a task that has been many years in the making!), I stumbled across an article in an old edition of Harvard Business Review (May 2013) that's worth a revisit. The article explores the interesting issue of the ideal...
Goldilocks Management: 3 Things You Need To Do “Just Right”
Anyone that's had responsibility for managing others will I think agree that is can sometimes be a challenge. There are days that, regardless of what you do, it's apparent that you just aren't getting the results you are hoping for. In some ways it might almost seem...