One of the tricks to maximising employee performance is to minimise any work that conflicts with your people actually doing what they are being paid to do.
Tag Archives: Workplace Productivity
Stop Kidding Yourself
We all deceive ourselves about something. And mostly it’s harmless. You know how it goes. My rear doesn’t look big in this. I don’t drink too much. I’m pretty fit. But sometimes it’s harmful. I see this from time to time with frontline managers.
What Drives Employee Engagement? Part 2
Last week we took a look at the things that frontline managers can do to make behaviour inefficient, and thereby ensure poor performance from their team. This week we’ll take a look Gilbert’s model for engineering high performance. And we’ll compare the factors in that model with the key drivers of employee engagement identified through global research.
What Drives Employee Engagement? Part 1
Employee engagement, or employee motivation if you prefer that term, is important to you and your organisation. There is now considerable evidence from many sources that low employee engagement generates lower employee productivity, business unit performance and profit; along with generating higher employee theft, accident rates and employee turnover.