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Ian Kirkby
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
Employee Engagement
The benefits of employee engagement are well quantified and well known. They include higher morale, greater agility, lower staff turnover, better customer service and higher profitability (see the MacLeod Report for a full listing). However, Gallup's 2018 survey showed that only 11% of British workers are engaged. Despite the obvious competitive advantages of investing in programmes to increase employee engagement, too many managers and executives insist on using 'carrot and
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Ian Kirkby
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
The Importance of Compassionate Leadership
It is really important to show compassion as a leader. It is also important to understand that being compassionate does not mean being soft. It's a shame that HBR used the GIF with this article (https://goo.gl/Ze1Nhu) as it conveys the wrong image: Truly compassionate leaders care enough for their team to make tough decisions and have those difficult conversations when they are necessary. #Engagement #TeamBuilding #Leadership #StaffDevelopment #Effectiveness
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Ian Kirkby
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
How to Manage an Employee who Always Makes Excuses
I hope you never need this, but just in case..... https://goo.gl/Bk3AJB Don't skip over the first point: make sure you are holding them accountable for something that they really are responsible for. #Management #StaffDevelopment #Coaching
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Ian Kirkby
- Nov 22, 2017
- 2 min
Effective Leadership - Tip 5 – Learn to Coach and Mentor.
Coaching and mentoring are 2 essential tools in the leader’s arsenal. The vast majority of large, successful companies now expect their managers to be able to use these skills to motivate and develop their teams. This results in much higher levels of employee engagement with attendant business benefits (higher profitability, lower staff turnover, greater agility, etc.). Coaching is used to help the coachee articulate the root cause/s of the problem and generate solutions to a
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Ian Kirkby
- Nov 21, 2017
- 1 min
What is Conflict Costing Your business?
What is unhealthy conflict costing your business?
Here's a tool to help you quantify: https://goo.gl/5qmdHq
Aspire's programmes help reduce unhealthy (personal) conflict and PROMOTE healthy (issues-based) conflict to get buy-in. Call 020 3904 7501 for more information. #ConflictManagement #TeamBuilding #PersonalDevelopment #StaffDevelopment #Management
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Ian Kirkby
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Effective Leadership - Tip 4
Delegate effectively. There are 2 main errors leaders can make: delegate too little, too late and continue to micro-manage, or delegate too much and to the wrong person. Both are very damaging. The first error severely limits the both individual and organisational capacity. It also ensures that ideas and staff engagement will be sparse and condemns the manager to, at best, a stressful tenure. The second error lacks control, puts the subordinate in a difficult position and car
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Ian Kirkby
- Sep 12, 2017
- 1 min
Investing in People - Why bother?
Another good article from HBR (I'm not on commission, honest!). Note the 'time' and 'energy' sections: getting those 2 right will lead to real business benefits (and you'll enjoy working towards them much more as well!). Here's the link: https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-case-for-investing-more-in-people #PersonalDevelopment #StaffDevelopment #Management #Effectiveness
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