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Why Won’t People Just Do Their Jobs?
There are three key elements for increasing accountability with your staff. Absolute clarity around all three will make it easier for you to be sure that you have been completely reasonable and clear, it will increase the chances of them actually becoming accountable in reality and it will decrease your levels of stress and frustration.
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Why You Need to Stop Asking People for Feedback
If you really want ‘honest feedback’ that is ‘specific and helps you to genuinely improve’ you are much better off asking for advice than feedback.
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The Unexpected Reason Why Helicopters are Good For Business
Do you have ‘excellent problem solver’ listed as a key skill on your resume? We admire people with excellent problem-solving skills, and rightly so. They have the ability to get to the root cause and to determine the best solution and implement it. Problem Solvers are...

The Surprising Problem with ‘Expert’ Engagement Surveys
Despite almost 30 years of Gallup Engagement surveys and a stated focus on ‘increasing engagement’ the statistics still show that 84% of your staff are not fully engaged. We haven’t actually moved the needle since the 1990s!
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What Separates the Best Teams from the Rest?
The ADP Research Institute study strongly suggests that a number of key factors separate the best teams from the rest. The most impactful of these factors is the level of trust the team members have in their manager/leader.
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Stop Wasting Time! Delegate For Better Results
Managers believe they don’t have time to delegate, ‘it’s quicker to do it myself’. While this may be true, spending time on these tasks also prevents you from getting to the more strategic work you should be doing, it also denies your best people the chance to have new challenges, and it’s likely they will leave to find new challenges, elsewhere.
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