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Why are so many people unhappy at work?
One way to answer the question about why so many people hate their jobs is to remember the very best job you ever had and ask yourself what made it…
Big business is dumping the performance review. You next?
According to the Washington Post, the annual performance review is finally on its way. A number of big companies have already said they’re taking the plunge, Accenture, Gap and Adobe…
Should office design be part of the performance appraisal process?
That sound an odd suggestion, but if you run and/or work in any kind of office you might want to read the recent Harvard Business Review blog post on office…
Healthy workplaces make for happy and effective employees
It’s official – the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the UK body that looks after public health, says that if you look after the wellbeing of employees…
One thing every manager can do that always improves staff performance
It’s Monday morning and I have a weekly management meeting with my director…. Last week was not a good week – we missed our numbers again ;-( As expected got…
Ryanair has learnt how to win customers the hard way
Great news for air travellers – the boss of Ryanair, the man we thought would never learn how to win customers and keep them, has had a change of heart.…
Want motivated employees? Develop your leadership skills…
It’s a confusing world: employee engagement is linked to management candour, motivation is linked to engagement, remuneration was linked to motivation for several centuries but then it turns out not…
Leadership skills beat Massive Monday
So you made it through Massive Monday – the day when more people consider a job change or a relationship split than any other day of the year. Searching for…
New Year’s Revolution – make the annual review better!
As you may remember from Douglas Adams’ masterpiece “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the book of that name was a best-seller largely because it had the words “Don’t Panic”…
2013 Annual Performance Review Survey
It’s that time of year again when 100,000s of hr directors, managers and staff get ready to start their annual appraisal process… We decided it would be a cool idea…
How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes – 4
Fourth in the list of big performance review mistakes, according to Eric Jackson on Forbes.com, is lack of preparation – doing appraisal meetings “on the fly.” Eric says he “knew…
Is conscious business doomed? Quite the opposite…
One of the WeThrive team was at the Meaning Conference in Brighton last week – a Conscious Business event full of people who want to make business more meaningful and…