How to Stop Competitors from Poaching Your Best People

How to Stop Competitors from Poaching Your Best People

Who are the five most valuable people in your business?  What would happen to your business if just one of them left? In any business, people are your greatest asset. Yet, we tend to take more care of our capital assets.  We insure them adequately, we maintain them...
How to Effectively Deal with Conflict at Work

How to Effectively Deal with Conflict at Work

We know that conflict causes high levels of emotion – anger, frustration, fear. And in these emotional states we waste time, we don’t do our best work. In a study on workplace conflict, commissioned by the publisher of the Myers-Brigg Assessment, the findings...
How to Actually Drive Performance in Your People

How to Actually Drive Performance in Your People

Driving performance is not about the annual Performance Review. In fact, companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Accenture are choosing to abandon traditional performance management methods. Adobe calculated that the annual performance reviews required 80,000 hours of...
The Secret to Doubling Your Profit!

The Secret to Doubling Your Profit!

Do you know the difference it would make to your bottom line if your team’s performance improved by just 10%? Research by Drs. Zenger and Folkman aimed to quantify that impact. They found that for companies in which labour costs represent about 50% of their total...
8 Demotivators in the Workplace & How to Avoid Them

8 Demotivators in the Workplace & How to Avoid Them

How motivated are your people? Make no mistake, the motivation level of your staff will have a significant impact on your business’s bottom line. A study by Harter et al., encompassing 152 organisations and over 950,000 employees, highlighted the very real...