Four Steps to Effective Training Someone
Making A Decision Making the decision to get help and hand some of your work to someone else is a great starting point. This will free you up to focus on the work that requires your particular expertise and knowledge. The next step is to train them up in the particular task you need done. […]
Does your team speak up in meetings?
Questions then silence If you’ve ever led a meeting, this has probably happened to you… You’re wrapping up and you ask your team if they have any questions or anything to add. You wait while your team is silent. After a minute, you might be tempted to think that you’ve done such an amazing job […]
What’s the true cost of a bad hire?
Hiring the right people Many businesses owners’ biggest nightmare, and with good cause, is to have hired the wrong person for the job. Not only is this time-consuming but the pain inflicted on team morale, not to mention your budget sheet, can be high. The negative impact can have a ripple effect that goes across […]
Avoiding the Need to Shoot a Hostage
Performance I often hear business owners comment that it is hard to get rid of poor performers these days, but I have to disagree – I have never found it hard to exit a poor performer and if you do it right, they typically jump before they are pushed. I have learnt that when you […]
6 Tips for Leading a High Performing Team
leading high performing teams In my career, I’ve had times when things were going really well and times when they weren’t. When it comes to leading high performing teams, I’ve learnt a few things along the way and in recent times, used these learning’s to assist client businesses to set up their own high performance […]