How to Boost Employee Morale and Motivation
If your employees aren’t motivated, two things will happen.
Best case scenario: your business will chug unspectacularly along, doing just enough to stay afloat but never reaching the heights of productivity and performance it could achieve if your employees were motivated to do their best.
Worst case scenario: sooner or later, your business will sink without trace.
Blocktalk: Episode 29 The CPL Clientcast
Blocktalk: Episode 28 with Chris Ashurst
Blocktalk: Episode 27 with Ashley Clancy
Not the right fit? Maybe it’s time to let your employee go
Letting people go is something that no business leader likes to do. It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth of everyone involved. But, sometimes, letting an employee go is doing both of you (them as much as you) a favour. That’s because it leaves them free to find a role they’re going to be good at and happy in, and it leaves you free to find somebody who will perform the role more effectively and be a much better fit.
What is inclusion in the workplace?
Many people confuse 'workplace inclusion' with 'workplace diversity', but they're two very separate things. Whereas 'workplace diversity' is all about having a wide demographic of people within your organisation, 'workplace inclusivity' is about making everyone in your organisation feel welcome and a valuable part of your team. There's no point in having a diverse workplace if you haven't already got an inclusive workplace to bring all those diverse people into.
Blocktalk: Episode 26 With James Groves
Blocktalk: Episode 25 With Zuzana Klaskova
Blocktalk: Episode 24 With Mike Heffron
Blocktalk: Episode 23 With Nic Mayall
Leadership Skills: Here’s Why Effective Leaders Don't Live In Comfort Zones
Up until now, I’ve tried to be very careful about how I write these blogs because I don’t want to put a shelf life on them. After all, the subjects I’m writing about – the principles of leadership, the importance of identifying your employees’ strengths, etc. – are timeless and universal. The topic I’m going to talk about today, why it's essential for leaders to step out of their comfort zone, is timeless too. However, I'd be avoiding the elephant in the room if I didn't at least give the nod to what's going on in the world right now because the conflict in Ukraine has pushed a lot of leaders out of their comfort zones in ways they could never have imagined at the start of this year.
Career Progression: Why It’s Essential To Map Your Employee’s Careers
I don’t like gardening. The closest I come to being a gardener is working out where the plants should go so somebody who knows more about plants than I can put them there. That's also a reflector of one of my key strengths in business. I'm full of ideas; I'm full of what's going to happen in the future, and when there's something I want to do, I want my team to help me get it started as quickly as possible. CliftonStrengths calls people like me ‘Activators’. There are many good things about being an Activator and a few not so good things as well, mainly that Activators can become very impatient and frustrated when things aren’t happening.
Blocktalk: Episode 22 With Paula Robertson
Blocktalk: Episode 21 With Karen-Ann McSwiggan
Blocktalk: Episode 20 With Annie Flint
The Importance Of Identifying Your Employees’ Strengths
Think about what your employees and team members are doing right now. Are they working in roles that let them use their strengths to their (and your) best advantage, or were they just slotted into that role simply because it was there, and you needed a body to fill it? If it’s the second one, chances are you’re not making the best of what your employees can do, and they won’t be achieving their full potential either.
Don’t Be Afraid of Transitioning an Employee Into a New Role
Over the years, I've noticed a frustrating trend in leadership and people management. In fact, I don't even think it’s a trend because trends come and go, and this critical example of leadership short-sightedness seems to have been with us forever.
It’s the reluctance of leaders to move people out of roles.
Blocktalk: Episode 19 With Jacqueline Borthwick
Blocktalk: Episode 18 CPL News with Brian, Crawford and Jaxx
