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If you are serious about the performance of your team, it is time to help them get the sleep they need. .
Trust is the glue that holds a team together and it is the most valuable element in a brand. It is also fragile and hard to build. This book examines how trust can be built and broken in business.
This guide is so concise it can be read in a lunch hour, yet it contains valuable insights that will help you and your team to thrive.
Here is a selection of team building activities that will energise your next team meeting, conference or training session.
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◀ 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 15 ▶The great Charles Handy made a rare public appearance earlier this week, not speaking to a group of executives but at a fundraising lecture for the family support network Relate.
Is Your Organisation Growing Fruit or Vegetables?
His lecture highlighted the fact that the ‘always on’ culture, combined with less people doing more work in organisations, is threatening family life. …
In the early 1990’s neuroscientists at the University of Parma discovered that brain cells not only fire when we perform a given action, such as reaching for a cold drink on a hot day, they also fire when we see someone else doing that action – hence the name mirror neuron (click here for a link to the research). This is why we sometimes wince when we see another person experience pain or embarrassment.
The men vs. women debate continues...
This theory has been used to explain characteristics such as empathy, the ability to read other people’s emotions, with some research* suggesting that the female brain is better able to create mirror neurons and therefore better equipped to anticipate the moods and feelings of others. The men vs women debate continues……..
Hiring the wrong person for a role is estimated to cost the employer over £20k, with that figure multiplying when it’s a management position.
When you're hiring staff, make sure that you follow our simple rules to avoid losing money...
Along with the recruitment costs and the time to process applications there’s productivity losses to account for. And, if the error isn’t detected and dealt with speedily, the fall-out across other staff. …
We all talk about ‘Death by PowerPoint’ yet the massacre continues. There may be occasions when a picture, quotation or chart can help to reinforce a fact, but they rarely inspire an audience in the same way as a well told story. And still a terrifying proportion of highly paid execs continue to fall foul of the classic PowerPoint bloopers:
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Journalists are among the least trusted of all professions, yet there’s still a thing or two they can teach managers.
Follow our 15 tips from journalists on asking questions and becoming a better manager
To manage effectively we need to have good insight. A primary source for insight is those around us, not just our own team but our peers, customers and those that lead us. …
A BBC news report about the elderly population of the Greek island of Ikaria in the Mediterranean has highlighted the importance of a lifestyle rich in fresh food, wine, friends and family on health and longevity.
Can the occasional glass of wine really help us live longer?
Research carried out by the University of Athens studied those aged over 65 on Ikaria. …
As we begin another new year with good intentions to break bad habits, let’s take a moment to consider what small behaviours could make a big difference in our role as leaders.
The New Year is the perfect time to break away from those bad habits and behaviours...
Hopefully many of these already form part of your day to day routine, but which are missing?…
A recent issue of Fortune magazine focuses on the secrets of greatness: Teamwork. It offers insights into teams past like Apple Computer’s Macintosh team and teams of Marines in Iraq…
The methods and tools involved in LEAN Six Sigma are easy.
…It also argues that “most of what you’ve read about teamwork is bunk.” While you can’t just demand teamwork, there are some simple lessons….
This year’s Olympics saw rowing teams of eight, four and two. In handball teams of seven; in hockey 16 and in volleyball six. So should team size be dictated just by the task, or are there other factors to consider?
In teams, is size really the most important factor?
It could be assumed that the larger the team the more productive they are as a whole but the opposite seems to be true. Very often larger teams are in fact less efficient per capita. In rowing and in the workplace, overall performance is as dependent on coordination across the team as it is on the sheer effort of individual team members. …
There’s little doubt that praise is a powerful motivating force – we all feel uplifted when our efforts are recognised – and management has moved on from 19th century command and control to an era of recognise and reward.
Not always the best way to praise someone.
Equally important, though rarely used effectively, is the reprimand. Just as we need to catch people doing things right we also need to help people to identify where they are going wrong and to take steps to improve. …
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