Performance results – how do you get them?
When it comes to getting performance results, one way to do it is to tell your employees what to do. This approach can be a lottery…
Hit the ground running as a new hire
As a new hire it can be daunting as there is so much to learn. Suddenly you realise how much you knew in your old job. What are the tricks to hitting the ground running…
Too Many Sick Days?
Working out whether an employee’s sick days are legitimate or not is challenging. The first thing to do is investigate the reason behind sick days. A mine field in employee relations terms, because finding out why someone is sick stretches in to personal privacy, human rights, and medical areas. Employers need to tread very carefully
Rewards and Incentives – A Novel Approach
Employee rewards and incentives are a way to recognise employees for doing a good job. These can take the form of vouchers, gifts, bonuses, and so on. Science is finding novel ways to structure rewards and incentive programmes to get the best bang for your buck. For example studies have found, if as a company
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What is the most important poor performance risk to manage?
Newly promoted managers (especially from technical backgrounds) can change very quickly from high performance in a technical capacity, to poor performance as a manager. This has a multiplier effect as it impacts not only their own performance but the performance of their new team. It often occurs because it is a significant transition changing from
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