We recently read some great advice that hails all the way from Australia, in an article entitled “Employees clamour for feedback and recognition” from the good folks over at smartstartup.com. It’s a report on a new study of 1,299 people that found that employees value a boss’s ability to give good feedback and recognition more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘manager-employee relations’
Behold the Power of Feedback!
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Hey, Bosses, Guess What? When It Comes to Employees, You Reap What You Sow.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011We read with interest the New York Times blog article “Before You Blame Your Employees” that was written by Jay Goltz and posted April 12 of this year about entrepreneurs and managers who point to employees as the reason why they find themselves frustratingly working more on the front line of their business instead of [...]
Employee Hotlines: Not Just for Big Corporations
Friday, April 29th, 2011In a perfect world, your employees would always feel comfortable coming directly to you with a workplace problem or concern that you aren’t aware of. (Actually, in a perfect world, there would be no workplace problems or concerns at all because we’d all be happy campers who were independently wealthy, but that doesn’t really work [...]
Yikes! Roughly a Third of New Managers Don’t Succeed at Their New Jobs.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011According to a new blog post over at the official American Society for Training and Development (ASTD ) blog, less than 36 percent of executives hired from outside an organization will succeed and perform well in their new jobs. About 30 percent of new managers and executives fail at their new jobs and leave within [...]
Who Asked That Excellent Audience Question on “Business Matters” the Other Night?
Friday, June 18th, 2010Why, it was our intrepid leader, Tina Hamilton, that’s who! Tina participated in the live audience taping of “Business Matters”, which aired on WFMZ on June 7, 2010. The episode was entitled “Unions: Past their prime or now more than ever?” and turned out to be a very lively discussion about union pros and cons [...]
Is Your On-Boarding Program Welcoming or…Well..Crummy?
Monday, June 7th, 2010We just read this excellent article on the importance of making a good first impression on your new hires during the first few days of their arrival at your company. Here’s one of our favorite points from the article “Does Your Company Welcome Policy Make Your New Hires Want To Stay Or Go?” on the [...]
Is Mediocrity Promoted in Your Office? Don’t Let It Be!
Thursday, May 20th, 2010If you ignore, misuse, or demean talent within your company—even during this recession—they’ll move on to greener pastures. That’s the overall take home message from BusinessWeek‘s recent article “Five Ways to Ensure Mediocrity in Your Organization.” The magazine details “five of the most insulting leadership practices, the ones that virtually guarantee a business will end [...]
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can come back to haunt you.
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Sure, you know the obvious words to avoid using around the office, such as “&*(%^%$*“, “*(&*^&%$” and “%$$*^#@“. But do you know the more subtle words and phrases that might also be damaging your image at work? Yahoo! Hot Jobs recently posted “The Worst Words to Say at Work” that lists nine common words and [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why People Left Their Jobs in the Last 12 Months
Friday, April 23rd, 2010We found these jaw-dropping poll results over at DailyHRtips.com. The survey, by Right Management Consultants and originally published in HR Magazine, asked 1,308 people why they left their jobs in the last year. (Totals add up to more than 100% because people we able to give more than one reason.) Here’s what they found: 1) [...]
