Listening is one of the most respectful and powerful things you can do for people. Managers are in a position of advocating for others. Listening is a skill rarely taught, yet of considerable value in the workplace. There has to be the right setting or environment for…
Effective business coaching supports improved on the job performance, results attainment and a renewed perspective allowing for problem resolution or opportunity identification in methods that were previously unavailable.
Bottom line: Coaching as a business tool has
Employee engagement has been a topic of conversation for about 15 years now, yet many managers I speak to have no idea what it is. I am not sure why, and not going to try and figure it out either.
Employee Engagement in its very simplest terms is a measure of how much employees care and are truly connected to their organization/company. Extensive research shows…
Ok, most managers I know will admit to making hiring mistakes with some hiring mistakes being in the ‘very expensive mistake’ category. In this blog I will attempt to answer the ‘why’ behind hiring mistakes and also offer up the solution going forward. The true cost of hiring mistakes is always more than what meets the eye. Researched estimates of hiring mistakes costs are between 1.5 and 2X the annual salary of the person hired if they don’t work out.
Electronic monitoring of employees is not new in any sense. It became more of a conversation/practice during the pandemic as so many new ‘work from home’ workers emerged. It is being addressed now in some jurisdictions because it may be excessive or be seen as an invasion of privacy.
As 2022 comes to a close, I thought it appropriate to share with you a trend I am seeing which is gaining momentum going forward – and the smart smaller companies are already seeing the benefits.
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The new normal is not distant on the horizon, it is here now.
We are very clearly in an employee driven market. Employees have the power now to demand workplace flexibility in ways never seen before, and they are getting their way!
If, as an employer you haven’t experienced the significant post-covid return to work challenges, believe me, it is coming.
Why are so many people quitting their jobs? According to a recent McKinsey report, many employers think that it is a problem with compensation or work-life balance. But the employees who are quitting tell a different story. Their main reasons for quitting are 1) not feeling valued and 2) not feeling a sense of belonging.
Living here in yet another lockdown in Ontario has me wondering about many things.
One is how businesses will need to be much better equipped going forward to address the changes in managing people brought on by the pandemic. When the human race gets things forced upon them, they react in unpredictable ways. We have seen…
