Employee orientations are an opportunity for the company to make a good and lasting impression on new employees. A professional and employee-oriented company has a lot to offer employees, but if employees are unaware of these benefits, the company may as well not have them. Excellent orientations include: An overview of the company This portion…
The bureaucratic leader (Weber, 1905) is very structured and follows the procedures as they have been established. This type of leadership has no space to explore new ways to solve problems and is usually slow paced to ensure adherence to the ladders stated by the company. Leaders ensure that all the steps have been followed…
When implementing a training scorecard it is important to track, collect, compile, analyze, and report six different types of training data collected over different time periods. These types of data are indicators, reaction, learning, application, business impact, and return-on-investment. Indicators. This is the traditional approach to reporting training data. Some examples of indicators are number…
Ask a manager what kind of boss they are the typical response is: “I do a good job.” A manager will often respond by saying: “I’m able to get things done. I accomplish goals within a specified time period and I utilize team members effectively.” Ask team members or employees the same question about…
Background The term Emotional Intelligence first appeared in a series of academic articles authored by John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey (1990, 1993). These publications generated little attention. Two years later, the term emotional intelligence entered the mainstream with Daniel Goleman’s 1995 best-seller Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ and subsequent articles…
The job of any manager is how efficiently & effectively he handles people at work. It is a challenge as a manager to form coalitions of willing, eager, & ambitious people within the realm of your responsibility. Handling people at work is not always as easy as it looks like, more so when a manager…
If that £100,000 was then withdrawn and you were asked for another £150,000 how you would feel? You might question whether you had made the right decision to take the £100,000 in the first place. You might also feel annoyed, frustrated and bewildered to have to pay 2 ½ times that amount for the privilege.…
As the economy heats up and there is demand for candidates with requisite skills and knowledge, a number of employees have started to look outside their company for growth. As the CEO’s feel the pressure from managers who use this excuse at every management meeting for their poor performance, the cry goes out “Stop the…
Joe Love draws on his 25 years of experience helping both individuals and companies build their businesses, increase profits, and achieve total success. A former ad agency executive and marketing consultant, Joe’s work in personal development focuses on helping his clients identify hidden marketable assets that create windfall opportunities and profits, as well as sound…
Genuine confidence is a rare gift that we give ourselves. Psychologists say that the only way to achieve it is to be your self. Role-playing and pretending to be someone you’re not, to gain recognition or social acceptance, erodes your confidence because you are constantly afraid that others will discover your pretence and deceptions. Great…
