A manager’s main job is dealing with the personal and professional problems of the people that report to you. While this may feel irrelevant to your work, it’s important to realise that relationship maintenance is a manager’s work. Relationship maintenance should be a top priority when you move into a leadership position. Book title: Radical Candor [...]
The Power of Recognition at Work An Employee Experience Report from pulse survey provider Officevibe has recently highlighted how changes in employee expectations mean that employers must adjust and amplify their retention strategies to stay competitive in a fierce market for talent. Recognition for a job well done can hold great power. The [...]
Spring clean your self awareness Spring is upon us… a time to open the windows and let in the fresh air. It’s not just physical windows we should be opening though – there’s a great tool we’d like to share with you called “The Johari Window”. It’s a simple and useful tool that [...]
Ten management behaviours that cause most stress to employees We undertook some analysis of the Good Boss database to look specifically at stress. Our findings have shown which particular behaviours cause most stress to employees. Over the last 18 years, the Good Boss Questionnaire has been providing insights into how certain aspects of [...]
Motivating your team - 10 top tips, and 5 things not to do Over the last 15 years, our in-house tool, the Good Boss Questionnaire (GBQ), has been providing insights into how certain aspects of managerial behaviour affect employees. The extensive research carried out during its development discovered that certain behaviour traits have [...]