Re-engage With Your Job: 5 tips
What does it take to re-engage with your job? What does it take to re-engage with your employer? Most organisations struggle with this challenge. They roll out various engagement strategies every year with limited impact on engagement levels. A quick look at the...
Leading Empowered Employees (Part 2): breaking the leader-follower mindset
In my previous article, I outlined some practical steps to reviewing how you lead your team. I also looked at how your leadership style can feed into, or even create, the leader-follower mindset. This is an unproductive place for your team to be because they will...
Leading Empowered Employees: a practical approach (part 1)
Leading empowered employees is the stuff of nightmares for many managers. Many focus on how empowered employees can be ‘managed’ or ‘controlled’. Fear seems to rise from the prospect of not getting the tasks completed because of uncontrollable innovation and team...
Creating an Employee Centric Culture: motivating employees
Last time, I suggested that managers should get to know their team members as individual people. I focused on knowing their job related strengths and maximising these. In this article, I will look at the role of ‘direction’ in motivating employees. Every...
How to Create an Employee Centric Culture in Your Team: Step 1
In my last article, I spoke about how many employers realise the benefits of an engaged workforce and know that they should build a more employee centric culture in their organisation. Yet, some obstacles remain in the pursuit of this culture. In this article,...
Employee Centric Engagement: 4 reasons why it isn’t happening (yet)
The concept of Employee Centric Engagement is not new. It has been around in different guises over the years and would appear to be the best description of how we want to engage employees. However, it is not necessarily how organisations actually deliver on...
Team Purpose: Free Activity for Managers
The team is a crucial component within the overall organisational structure. It is the basic unit of performance in most organisations. It is the level at which productivity and performance levels can be best assessed against targets. This is why team purpose is a...
Engaging Leadership: understand the employee ask
Why do you go to work? What does your job do for you other than provide a salary that pays your bills? These are important questions when considering employee engagement, performance and productivity in the workplace. We all look for something from our jobs. Our...
Engaging Leadership: Time to Ditch the Meetings?
The business world loves a good old meeting. There is nothing like a meeting to network, share ideas, collaborate and get stuff done. Right? Or, does this obsession with meetings disengage your employees and drain valuable resources and money from your business? ...
Engaging Leadership: Personal Power vs Position Power
The single greatest influencing factor on whether your team is engaged is you, the manager. A significant part of this influence you hold lies in the type of power you choose to use in order to carry out your manager role – position power or personal power. This is...