Management Blog

While micromanaging has been proven in study after study to demotivate employees, the opposite of that is not leaving your staff to fend for themselves. Leaders need to find a healthy balance between managing their staff to empower them and looking over their shoulder every…

Change can be a stressful and unpredictable time, which is why many managers avoid messing with the status quo. A popular belief is that if something is not broken, you shouldn’t fix it; however, if you don’t make innovation a priority, you will likely fall…

Employee appraisals provide an opportunity for the employee and the boss to sit down one-on-one to discuss progress and goals, so why is it that these meetings are often dreaded and pointless? Well, lack of appraisal training springs to mind. Too many managers turn up…

As managers, we need to be able to deal with all types of employees. There are those that are extremely talkative, energetic, and ready to share their thoughts; while others are more quiet, shy and tend to keep to themselves. (more…)

While many online articles provide tips on how you can beat the mid-week slump, many of us have a hard time simply getting through Monday! The daily responsibilities we have to face at work just seem overwhelming and the to-do list only keeps growing, which…

Whether it was due to lack of funds, inappropriate behaviour or poor performance, terminating an employee’s position is always difficult. While the manager assigned to this task has the hard job of relaying the bad news, and the person being fired has just lost their…

Modern leaders know that in order to get their employees to be loyal to their companies and work at their most productive levels, they need to engage with them. Engagement has been shown to be one of the most vital strategies a manager can achieve…

Running a training session? Maybe you want an energiser to get them going and ready for your training. (more…)

Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, and this can be especially crushing when it happens at work. If your boss has just given you a negative performance review, you may feel shocked, hurt, angry or confused. (more…)

As change is ever present in the corporate world, so are training sessions. Although some companies only invest in training new candidates when they join the team, training should be continuous. (more…)

A startup owner needs the funds to get the business of the ground, grow it and market it to prospective clients. Few entrepreneurs have the capital required to grow a startup, and they need investors to finance their endeavours. (more…)

When trying to find material about making the corporate culture and environment better, there is a lot of confusing information. Two terms that seem to be used interchangeably are employee satisfaction and employee engagement.   (more…)