Is it Spring in your business? Celebrating small victories
This side of Covid-19, the pressure is on to perform. But pressure cannot be maintained forever. Stop to celebrate small victories with your team
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Handling difficult employees: A step-by-step guide
A step-by-step guide to turning difficult employees around (or dismissing them)
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A bad hair day for Employment Equity
There is no normal in employment. Embrace your differences. Within your diversity lies your competitive edge
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Employment Equity: Why? Why not? How?
Employment Equity and diversity make business sense. They succeed or fail because of the hiring/training/promoting decisions managers make every day
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Lessons in leadership: An eight-year journey
‘The role of a leader is to produce more leaders not more followers.’ Simply Communicate’s Birthday thoughts (with help from Ralph Nader and Benjamin Zander)
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Smoking & Employment Equity targets: Policing vs managing
Policing is easier than managing. Poor managers set rules that are easy to police. Good managers work with the strengths and challenges of individuals.
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Retrenchment in a time of crisis: It’s all about relationships
Isn’t retrenchment complicated and time-consuming? Yes, it takes time, but it’s not complicated. Make communication part of your organisation’s DNA
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Three steps towards managing remote performance
Managing performance is as important as ever, just much more difficult. Three steps to keep staff motivated and get the results you need.
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Addressing racism: It starts with listening
If we want to engage over racism or gender-based violence, listening comes first. We might find our organisation isn’t what we think it is
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Your team needs you: Encouraging the ‘work at homes’
We each have our own challenges. And personal and work are much more intertwined than at the office. What are you doing to engage your team?
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