Employee Engagement

5 questions to ask your Leadership Team

By Howardco on Jun 9, 2016 in Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Team Development | 0 comments

You know your team is functioning well when: ideas are flowing freely, people are engaged, there is healthy debate and people are working together to achieve common goals. But what if your team is not performing well: discussions getting bogged down; lack of buy-in; petty arguments and failure to deliver? In his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni...

Having Difficult Conversations: 6 Steps to Better Outcomes

By Howardco on Apr 22, 2016 in Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Managing People | 4 comments

It seems one of the things we dread most as business owners or managers, is facing staff over difficult issues, in fact we would rather avoid them than face them. We may feel that by putting them off they will go away but rarely is this the case and if anything, the problem gets worse. Research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (UK) found that 57% of...

How to Retain New Employees: 6 Top Tips

By Howardco on Mar 31, 2016 in Employee Engagement | 0 comments

The first three months in a job can be make or break for employer and employee. Even the most thorough recruitment and interview campaign can be let down by a poorly planned or non-existent induction phase. Research shows that employees form critical opinions in the first 90 days about whether to stay or go and the costs of replacing staff are high, up to 1.5 times...

Seven Tips for Recruiting and Keeping Great Staff

By Howardco on Mar 31, 2016 in Employee Engagement | 0 comments

   Credit: iStockphoto |Thinkstock People can be the greatest asset for any business but the wrong people in the wrong jobs can be a burden that weighs your business down. From my experience in helping businesses grow through people, here are my top tips for hiring successfully to ensure you get the right people on board! Tip #1. Be a good employer. Be the...

6 ways to improve your team’s performance in 2016

By Howardco on Mar 31, 2016 in Employee Engagement | 0 comments

Welcome back and best wishes for a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2016. Wondering how to get the best from your people this year? Before you and your team get caught up in the daily whirl, it’s worth taking some time out to consider some simple but effective strategies for lifting team performance. The actions you take now could make a significant difference to you,...

Overcoming Communication Barriers when Networking

By Howardco on Sep 23, 2015 in Employee Engagement | 0 comments

How to adapt your communication style. Have you found that it is easier to connect with some people more than others? Networking is all about meeting and communicating with people and the more people you can connect with the better your networking will be. But chances are you are only really making a connection with 25% of the people you meet. Communication barriers...