Be proactive in making the most of your opportunity to earn the support and loyalty of your employees. Here are a few tips and reminders of how you can show your best managerial and leadership qualities, and positively influence those around you: Take a personal interest in your employees Never view employees as only a means to an end Treat… Read more →
While abilities in hard skills can be easier to measure, such as in accounting and IT, soft skills are equally important in running a successful organisation. What are Soft Skills? Soft skills are often referred to as “people skills” or even “emotional intelligence” – referring to one’s ability to positively interact with others. Soft skills are about our personal behaviours… Read more →
A cross-functional team is a group of employees from different functions within an organisation – such as human resources, information technology, marketing and finance – who all focus on specific objectives and have the responsibility to work as a team to achieve shared goals. Cross-cultural teams, on the other hand, are made up of people from different social and professional… Read more →
Effective teamwork is one of the most important aspects of business today. Team members should be completely comfortable while working with others so that they are able to give their best professional effort in whatever they do. A team is normally comprised of a number of team members and a team leader. Needless to say, the responsibility for success lies on… Read more →
A performance appraisal is an important part of performance management. In itself it is not performance management, but it is one of the range of tools that can be used to manage performance. Since this is usually carried out by line managers rather than HR professionals, it is important that they understand their role in performance management and how performance… Read more →
All managers who are expected to carry out performance appraisals should have some training. Ideally this should not just be on the skills of performance appraisal (how to do it) but also on the reasons for performance appraisal (why we do it). Managers should understand how it fits into the wider strategic process of performance management and how the information and data… Read more →
Do you spend a lot of time planning, yet struggle to actually get things done? Here is a little advice that you may find helpful: create separation between your goal planning and the act of doing it. First, think about your end game, such as “I want to …” or “I want to increase the number of sales I make this year… Read more →
The time invested in preparing to get the most out of training will help to increase your learning, and its application and retention so that the initial investment in the learning activity will be paid back time and time again. As important as training is, too often it is treated as a fringe benefit, reward, or social occasion with little… Read more →
We’re living in an age of accelerating disruption, with profound changes brought on by digitization and other societal changes. Companies are responding by rethinking their business models, redesigning their organisations and adopting agile-management practices. With development of your inner agility you’ll have a more comfortable and creative relationship with uncertainty. Building inner agility means learning how to relax at times… Read more →
How many of the following characteristics does your team portray? To achieve higher productivity within your teams, strive to develop the teamwork behaviours characterised here: 1. Clear Purpose The vision, mission, goal, or task of the team has been defined and is now accepted by everyone. There is an action plan. 2. Informality The climate tends to be informal, comfortable,… Read more →