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7 08, 2018

Performance, What does good look like? Do you really know?

By RicHayden|2023-09-21T12:53:44+01:00August 7th, 2018|Belief, Business, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, SMART Goals|Comments Off on Performance, What does good look like? Do you really know?

Organisations the world over are only as good as the team of people working within that business. The success of the business is driven by the performance everyone. Ultimately the managers that drive that performance are responsible. However, many of the conversations I have with managers on development programmes are about how they can put in to context “What good looks like?”. They seem to fall in to a trap of not delegating soon enough and hindering the development of within teams. Recently when working with a great group of aspiring managers taking part in a “Stepping in to Managment” [...]

4 09, 2017

Accountability, supporting the development of High Performing Teams

By RicHayden|2023-09-21T12:43:48+01:00September 4th, 2017|Business, Emotional Intelligence, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, SMART Goals, Success, Uncategorised|Comments Off on Accountability, supporting the development of High Performing Teams

It is hard work managing a team, made even harder by everyone’s different levels of ability and speed to be able to complete tasks. For any team to be a High Performing Team the leader needs to know everyone’s ability. The leader needs to be able to drive them forward to work autonomously and foster accountability. There is a tendency within a wide population of leaders to be disablers rather than enablers. This is done with the best of intentions. Two of the biggest disablers in organisations are: I can do it myself. Have you ever heard yourself say, or [...]

4 07, 2017

Me, You, Everyone – Knowing the impact you have using 360 degree feedback

By RicHayden|2023-01-04T12:40:42+00:00July 4th, 2017|Articles, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Reviews, Sales Performance, SMART Goals|Comments Off on Me, You, Everyone – Knowing the impact you have using 360 degree feedback

There is no doubt about it, managing people is hard! No matter how much aptitude you have for leadership, and despite how much you might enjoy leading a team (or not), aligning employees to contribute in a way that is meaningful to your business is a challenging job. The complexity and difficulty of this grows with the size of the team and the impact of their contribution on the businesses strategy and goals, and ultimately it’s up to you to supervise, guide, coach and develop individuals for high performance in this setting. Managing their technical contribution is often straightforward, [...]

7 06, 2017

Why losing employees may be your fault…

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:32:48+01:00June 7th, 2017|Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Why losing employees may be your fault…

You’re heartbroken! You just didn’t see it coming. You thought things were going so well, but now it’s over, and you’re gutted. You keep asking yourself “where did I go wrong?”, and “what could I have done differently”. And slowly it dawns on you. “I treated them the same as everyone else, and now I’m back to where I started”. It reads like the love of your life has walked out on you. And whilst there was never any “romance”, professionally the dalliance is over. Your new hire has resigned. Perhaps you had an inkling that things weren’t working out [...]

3 06, 2016

Creating a Coaching Culture

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00June 3rd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Creating a Coaching Culture

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"]UK business and economy is back on track and is growing at it’s fastest pace since the downturn of the recession. However, since the experience of the recession businesses and business managers mindset has changed in the way they operate, now having a focus not slipping back in to hard times and the expectation on people within the business is higher. Ensuring that everything is in place for everyone in the organisation, Managers, Leaders and Employees to enable them to succeed is as crucial a part of the competitive advantage as is being competitive. In fact, having [...]

22 04, 2016

Making SMART Goals work

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00April 22nd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Sales Performance, SMART Goals|Comments Off on Making SMART Goals work

You’ve done it. You have worked hard on the objectives of your team and made them S.M.A.R.T. Everyone knows what they are and have gone away happy from your 1-2-1 with them. You have gone away knowing what is going to get done and when because each part of the objective has been covered, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. Good work you… But then, after the objective setting, in the performance stage you begin to realize that the objectives aren’t quite being met. This could be for many reasons, do your team know how [...]