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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.
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...
Thinking About Thinking – Enhancing Employee Performance
We all know that effectively managing employees is key to the success of our business. We variously rely on our employees to serve our customers/clients, to market and sell the goods and services of the business and to implement the processes and systems that...
Culture: It all Starts with Mind-Set
I'm an accountant. I'm all about making money. If you want to make money, get your culture right first. Don't waste your time on the other stuff.by Giam Swiegers, former CEO of Deloitte Australia Most of us understand its importance, but actively managing...
Are You Prepared To Be Less Of A D*ckhead To Be A Better Leader?
As usual, the 2015 Conference on Culture and Leadership presented by Human Synergistics Australia delivered the goods, with some great speakers sharing their personal leadership and workplace culture experiences with an enthusiastic...
Kill the Performance Review! (or maybe not)
"Performance Reviews: Get Rid of Them" – www.theage.com.au 15/02/15 "Businesses Should Boycott Performance Reviews" – www.afr.com 05/03/14 "Performance Reviews: Is it Time to Kill Them?" – www.executivestyle.com.au 30/06/14 The...