Inspiring?

Daughtry Video
The music is not my cup of tea – but the sentiment is!  Sorry I can’t embed the video here – you’ll have to pop over to you tube to see it.

Progressive Managers and the Credit Crunch

How best to respond in uncertain times?
Images in the media of managers clearing their desks and heading for home with their possessions in cardboard boxes makes us all think about our own job security.  So what should you do to maximise your chances of thriving through the credit crunch.

Keep developing your staff – build their [...]

Excellent Article on Giving Feedback

I am a massive fan of both giving and getting great feedback. And yet I know that many managers avoid giving feedback – or even worse give it in ways that are so subtle as to be pointless.
What Every Manager Should Know About Feedback is a superb article that reflects much of what I [...]

Delegation and Flow – Csikszentmihalyi for Managers

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spent much of his life researching ‘flow’ -  that state of being when you become fully immersed in a task and time flies by.  This flow state can only occur when  the level of challenge is carefully matched to your level of skills and confidence.  Flow is most likely to occur [...]

Happiness at Work

 
“Our traditional organizations are designed to provide for the first three levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs; food, shelter and belonging.  Since these are now widely available to members of industrial society, our organizations do not provide significantly unique opportunities to command the loyalty and commitment of our people.  The ferment in management will continue [...]

Why do Managers Duck People Management?

This piece of research caught my attention recently;
“While 84 percent of organizations know that workforce effectiveness is important to achieving business results, only 42 percent of those surveyed say managers devote sufficient time to people management.”
What stops managers from spending time on developing workforce effectiveness?
Why do so many managers ‘duck’ managing people.

Some managers don’t think [...]