7 Questions You Need to Ask Your Team Every Month
Companies that want to achieve continuous growth need to create a culture of continuous feedback. The whole team should be working together to help make the company better. As smart as most leaders are, if they’re the only ones making decisions, the company won’t be nearly as successful as ones that actively encourage employees to…
9 Things That Motivate Employees More Than Money
The ability to motivate employees is one of the greatest skills any manager or leader can possess. After many years of delivering leadership and management programmes for some of the region’s most successful companies it’s interesting that many of them tell us that in today’s austere times there are more important things you can do…
How to Give Negative Feedback to Your Manager
Whether you are dealing with a supervisor who interrupts you, criticizes you in front of others, talks down to you, or something else, giving negative feedback to the person you report to is rarely easy. So what should you do? Step 1: Question yourself. Start by asking yourself two questions. 1) Are you making a…
9 Ways to Make Your One-On-One Meetings More Productive
What are some tips for efficient one-on-one meetings with employees? What is the best way to give both positive and negative feedback? It takes the skills of a great coach and a great listener. Here are 9 ways way’s to make your one-on-one meetings productive: Don’t cancel them. Cancelling a one-on-one is worse than never…
4 Questions Excellent Leaders Ask Underperforming Employees
Have underperforming employees? Learn what to ask them in order to boost performance. Asking questions is the most powerful, yet underutilized, tool you carry as a leader. Questions force your team to think. Questions reveal assumptions and thought processes by the answers they elicit. Questions start a dialogue. Questions involve the other party in creating…
10 Common Time Management Mistakes
How well do you manage your time? If you’re like many people, your answer may not be completely positive! Perhaps you feel overloaded, and you often have to work late to hit your deadlines. Or maybe your days seem to go from one crisis to another, and this is stressful and demoralising. Many of us…