So many organisations say they do employee engagement. They have that box ticked because they ran a survey within the past 18 months and, sure, they do employee engagement events like beer and pizza, Corporate Social Responsibility and other such activities. Yet,...
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 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...