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Performance Appraisal Meeting Preparation – The Practical
There is always a ‘practical’ element to preparing for a performance appraisal meeting, and it’s surprising how easy it is to make a mess of this part of the prep. For example have you ever had a...
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Management Tips: 10 Quick Tips for Giving Constructive Criticism
Giving constructive criticism to our employees in order to improve their performance is never easy What it is, though, is absolutely crucial – to the business, to the team, to you and (most...
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Management Skills: The Price of Too Much Enthusiasm
In my blog ‘Management Skills: Promoted to Manager? Great! What Now? I talked about my experience of being a newly promoted manager. The three things I lacked then was; tools and techniques,...
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Management Skills: 5 Things You Should Never Say to Your Employees
There’s plenty advice out there about how to talk to your employees – about what you should say (I’ve written plenty myself!). In this article I’m going to cover an area not quite so popular – but...
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People Management Skills: Are You Seeking Enough Agreement?
People Management Skills: The Importance of Agreement I guess very few managers these days want to impose their views on their employees (although there will always be exceptions!). The good news is...
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People Management Skills: Developing Positive Beliefs
People Management Skills: The Impact of Beliefs One of the most important and useful management skills is having a clear understanding of the impact of our beliefs about people management and an...
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People Management Skills: The Power of Clarity
Management Skills: The Importance of Clarity I’ve written before about clarity (for example in ‘Performance Management: The One Secret You Need to Know’). Without simply repeating myself, here are...
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Management Skills: Three Ways to Build Empathy
One of the key management skills: Empathy? Many years ago I worked in an organisation that was very task focused (to say the least). Whenever we tried to introduce some training or new processes that...
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Improving Employee Performance: 3 Reasons Why Employees Under Perform
Do you have an ‘employee performance gap’? Are you trying to improve employee performance? Are you trying to close an ‘employee performance gap’ – a gap between; a) What you want and need from your...
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Employee Performance Gaps: Overcoming the Obstacles
In the first two blogs in this short series on how to close an ‘employee performance gap’ I’ve looked at how to improve employee performance when that improvement is within the control of the employee...
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