The festive season can fill the workplace with a flurry of excitement. Tinsel adorned desks, office Christmas parties and Secret Santa gifts can soften…
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For all our many flaws, we pride ourselves on our ability to organise things down to a tee, to our politeness and for our non-confrontational manner (for which we apologise even when we are not at fault!). We may moan about…
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We talk a lot about how managers and HR can turn around individual underperformance, but why do we focus on this so much? Especially when the outcome we are after is improved business performance? What if we…
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Are you finding that individual team members are performing less well than you had hoped? Perhaps a top performer has recently gone off track? Managing poor performance at work can be challenging and confronting…
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HR is often accused of not being strategic enough as many consider people-related activities to be a bit ‘soft and fluffy’ rather than ‘tough’ and business-focused like financial metrics or sales figures. However, this…
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The Balanced Scorecard is a business tool that was made famous by Kaplan and Norton in the 1990s when featured as research in the Harvard Business Review. Many businesses were (and still are) managed…
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Many firms have considered the use of Excel to manage their compliance needs, but the reality is that this manual method simply won’t cut it.
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The origins of performance management can be traced back to the early 1900s. Sources suggest that the performance appraisal was first introduced by WD Scott during World War 1. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that…
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