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WeThrive – make annual reviews better

WeThrive makes it easy for managers and staff to agree on development goals that will make working life easier and more productive, helping you make annual reviews better for all…

How do you motivate sales people and set the right targets?

How do you motivate sales people?  Tradition holds that money is the way.  Forget all the research showing high-value rewards make people stupid, reduce productivity and encourage dishonesty – sales…

What’s the problem with human psychology at work?

Across the world, managers are sitting with their heads in their hands asking: Why?  What is it about human psychology at work that makes my life so difficult?  Why isn’t she…

How To Motivate A Team

How To Motivate A Team People put 100% effort into free-time activities, but how do you get that commitment in the workplace? The activities we love have a number of…

Team leadership and employee engagement

What is team leadership and how do leaders nurture employee engagement? For leadership to work, the leader has to be someone the others will follow. So how do you become…

Negative feedback and Employee Engagement

When is it right to give negative feedback, if you want to preserve employee engagement?  Here’s a humdinger of a problem – you want your people to learn from their…

Employee engagement ideas you can use today

I hate the way the word ‘around’ is used, even in official documents, when basic work has not been done. “We’re doing some work ‘around’ x at the moment” often…

Why do team leaders lose credibility, and what does this do to staff engagement?

In a group of human beings leadership is not fixed.  It passes automatically to whoever the group sense will best help them get their needs met at the time.  It…