HOW MUCH IS LOW STAFF ENGAGEMENT COSTING YOU?
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash As regular followers will testify, I’m on a crusade to highlight how engaging your staff is key to unlocking greater productivity and profitability in your business. In my previous series of…
PRODUCTIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE – Lessons from the Gym
Trying to measure employee productivity is often met with groans of being micro-managed, or treated like robots. It’s a necessary evil for businesses to ensure they maximise the performance of their most expensive overhead…
Alluxi’s Leadership & Management Programme Achieves CMI Recognition
Training is perceived as an expensive luxury, and is often the first cost to be cut when cash flow gets tough The familiar phrase Training is a Necessity Not a Luxury may strike home…
THE GREAT BRITISH PRODUCTIVITY SWINDLE – 3 Painful Truths – No 3. The Employee
As a business owner, do you know from one day to the next, what your employees actually do? Can you, hand on heart, say they’ve produced a fair day’s work for a fair day’s…
THE GREAT BRITISH PRODUCTIVITY SWINDLE – 3 Painful Truths No 2. The Manager
In the first Painful Truth of this series, we highlighted the need for business owners to implement robust Management Control Systems and Key Performance Indicators, critical to measuring and optimising productivity. The Bank of…
THE GREAT BRITISH PRODUCTIVITY SWINDLE – 3 Painful Truths – No 1. The Business
As a productivity expert, I was entertained by the Bank of England’s “Lessons on a Plate” entitled The Great Productivity Puzzle, which loosely touches on why the UK is losing its competitive edge against…
All I Want for Christmas is ….. TRUST!
Point 7, and last, in the series My 7 Point Plan to Perfecting Business Performance This series of the 7 Point Plan to Perfecting Business Performance has taken you on a journey towards improving productivity…
CAN ANYBODY HEAR US? Giving Your Staff A Voice
Point 6 in the series My 7 Point Plan to Perfecting Business Performance How often do you have a problem that lands on your desk, and you feel you have to come up with the…
PREPARING MANAGERS TO ………. MANAGE
Point 2 in the series My 7 Point Plan to Perfecting Business Performance I’ve often extolled the virtues of succession planning from inside the business, but warned about promoting the employee who performs the best. …