Feel The Difference When You Reward Your People Six Keys to Remember.

We all want to feel valued and appreciated and organisations need to achieve their goals. When the two can be brought together something dynamic and exciting is achieved. It is well recognised that money on its own is not a big enough incentive to keep talented people in an organisation or make them feel they are valued and appreciated. There are many ways to reward your people.

 

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How To Overcome Overwhelm

Sometime in recent years, however, the verb "overwhelmed" became a noun. We are now "in overwhelm" or "experiencing overwhelm". It's nearly always got negative connotations. This is where the over the top nature of "overwhelm" is excessive, is straining our levels of response, maybe even beginning to crush us. This doesn't do our reputation any good. No one wants to be around people who are constantly in overwhelm because they drain us and sap our energy. They also are usually irritable and intolerant. This is the overwhelm we are talking about here.

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Giving Difficult Feedback that Motivates and Inspires Change

When it comes to giving feedback about underperformance to our team members it is crucial to face our fear and do it. To avoid it has serious consequences for the organisation.  Like all soft skills,  when we learn how to do it well, it impacts on the whole of our lives, not just our work life. The skills we learn are transferable to resolving situations in our personal lives as well. Learning how to have these crucial conversations can be very empowering.

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Breathe New Life into Your Team with Positive Feedback

When managers make the giving of positive feedback a part of their management style, they are building relationships with their employees that inspire commitment, loyalty and engagement. It invokes good feelings in employees about their organisation and their manager. They are motivated and inspired to higher levels of performance.

 

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Risk Your Way to Success

In 1994, a young man, Jeff Bezos, had a gut feeling that the internet was going to be big and thought he could be part of it. He took a risk with no guarantee of success and launched Amazon.com and it paid off. Amazing things can happen when we are prepared to take a risk and follow through. It's about trusting intuition and gut feelings. More importantly, it's about trusting ourselves. Success invariably will follow.

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10 Important Keys For Getting Your People To Work WITH You, Not Just FOR You - Engaging Your Team

Did you realise that only 1 in 4 employees (26%) in Australia and New Zealand are fully engaged in their work and with their organisations?

Did you also know that 1 in 5 (20%) are actually disengaged?

What’s more important is that engaged employees stay for what they can give, while disengaged employees stay for what they can get.

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Career Development Is Also About "Managing Up"

Every worthwhile leadership or management course today has a component on how to influence - managers, clients, potential clients, industry power brokers.

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Work-Life Balance in the 24-7 Workplace of Laptops, Blackberries and Mobile Phones - Part 1

We are all familiar with the old adage: "No one on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time at the office." Yet in these fast-moving times of change and complexity that is exactly what we do - spend more time at the office as our workday knows no boundaries.

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Work-Life Balance in the 24-7 Workplace of Laptops, Blackberries and Mobile Phones - Part 2

So what are we talking about when we talk about work/life balance?

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Developing Stillness and Quiet in Our Busy Lives - A Dynamic Soft Skill

Many people have found the answer to this in disciplines like, for example, meditation, yoga and tai chi. Trying these by doing some short courses with experienced teachers is highly recommended. This give us a sense of whether it is something that resonates with us.

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