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Communication, Leadership, Performance Management, Performance Reviews

3 Ways to Convince Managers to Carry Out Performance Reviews

It’s that dreaded time of year again – performance review time. Otherwise known as the yearly (or half-yearly) point at which the HR team and line managers do battle. HR want managers to get all their performance reviews completed on time and to actually have a performance conversation before they fill in any related documentation. Line managers are turning into skilled avoiders of this process, which they see as being HR-driven rather than a fundamental element of their management role. ...

Communication, Fear, Leadership

3 Important Steps to Encourage Leaders to Tackle Fear

If you recognise that fear is undermining performance and productivity in your organisation, you are not alone. In our recent survey, 49 per cent of respondents said that fear is having a significantly or excessively adverse impact on performance and productivity in their organisations. Your challenge is how to get other people to buy in to doing something about it. In this blog post, I’m going to outline what you can do to get the right people focussed on reducing fear in your organisation. ...

Communication, Leadership

3 Ways to Change Habits After Skills Training

“When I get back to the office, everyone will say, ‘Oh, you’ve been on a training course. Don’t worry, you’ll soon go back to normal.'” This phrase – or some variation of it – is often heard at workshops, followed by a wry laugh. However, no one’s laughing about energy, time and money being wasted on training that has very little effect in the long run. So, if you want to get a reliable return for your investment in skills training, what ...

Communication, Leadership

How to Eliminate Underperformance in Your Engineering Organisation Faster

Do you want to see changes in your organisation, fast? We all know the popular saying about how Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it’s true that real, sustainable change doesn’t just happen overnight. However, there are ways that we can work together to implement behavioural and environmental change within your organisation in a reasonable timeframe. I’m going to discuss some of these below, and also address some of the concerns you may have about making changes in your ...

Communication, Leadership

Getting Real Results: Why CommsMasters Is Different

Heard it all before? Perhaps you’ve been reading the information on our website and feel as if you’re getting a serious case of déjà vu. Perhaps you’ve sought HR training and professional services in the past, or have been made false promises that just haven’t been delivered on. Maybe you’ve just been comparing numerous similar services that all sound the same and promise all of the same results. In either case, you’ll probably be asking the same, big question: What’s so ...

Communication, Leadership

4 Ways HR Directors Can Reduce Off-Site Training Times

Are you aware that change needs to happen in your workforce, but worried about having to take people off-site for too long to do it? This is one of the main concerns I hear from many clients, but the good news is that real change doesn’t happen in the training room. Alternatives to off-site training It’s true that in most training programmes, there is usually a degree of off-site training. The amount of time will mostly depend on the level ...