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 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...
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...
We all know the old saying ‘people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers’. It may only be an old saying – but it is also painfully true. Too often we see talented employees leaving for a job elsewhere because their managers fail to meet their expectations. These...
When procuring employee engagement products, a major dilemma for many business owners and HR managers is whether they should follow the trend by going for a fully automated platform or should they stick with the traditional consultant led option? At etimes2, we offer...