Staff Recruitment and Retention

The people are the business, so you want to find and retain staff who are a great fit for the vacancy. How can you make yours an aspirational workplace for top employees? We look at top tips to recruit the right candidate, retain and develop staff to build a strong loyal team which can drive…

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Staff Retention

The company that creates opportunities for career development for its staff, and offers a chance for them to develop a career path within the organisation, will strengthen the team and increase staff retention. The goal is to be the “go-to “employer, the aspiration for the best people on the market. Staff Retention So apart from…

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Performance management and appraisals

  Performance management facilitates high levels of performance, and creates a culture encouraging continuous improvement. But it is not always a positive experience for staff, and carried out badly it is a demotivater .Learn how to make this a positive experience, opening up a dialogue that enables problems to be aired and dealt with sensitively,…

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Appraisal skills for managers

What characterises an effective appraisal meeting? How are the outcomes different from a poor one? Managers who carry out appraisals need to learn the skills to ensure the appraisal is a positive experience for all concerned, with outcomes that encourage performance optimisation. They need to ask the right type of questions, develop listening skills, and…

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Recruitment and Management of Staff Quiz

Welcome to our quiz on managing people. This is one of the most important aspects of managing a business-the people are the business! The better the people you have, the better the business will perform. So it is crucial to find and retain the very best staff that are out there. There are ten questions…

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Team Leadership

There are very many theories and models of leadership, leadership philosophies and leadership styles. When we look at Team Leadership, Management and Motivation you will learn about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Adair’s Action Centred Leadership. We also consider how important money is in the management of motivation. Team Leadership. There are very many theories…

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Herzberg’s Theory of hygiene factors

Frederick Herzberg’s Motivational Theory, identified motivation and hygiene factors. His research studied why people strive to achieve ‘hygiene’ needs and what happens once those needs are satisfied , He found that people are not ‘motivated’ by addressing ‘hygiene’ needs, but by motivators, such as achievement, advancement, development, which represent a deeper level of meaning and…

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Teamwork

Strong teams are better than the sum of their parts. If the team has the right mix of skills and attitude, then great synergies can be achieved, as long as everyone is pulling in the same direction! There are different roles within any team and you will discover that people may perform different functions within…

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Delegation

Effective managers delegate. It is essential for their development that you let your staff take on tasks and projects. Staff development, succession planning and team motivation depend on it. Good delegation saves time, poor delegation demotivates. But you have to learn how to delegate, because you can’t do everything yourself. Many people argue that it…

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Coaching and Succession Planning

Succession planning keeps good people moving up the ladder. Coaching is useful for staff improvement, development and skills transfer. Coaching a successor or mentoring a trainee means delegating while maintaining responsibility. What skills and attributes does a coach need? The coach needs to consider the learning style of the individual, and their own coaching style.…

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