How Do I Motivate My Whole Team?

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss moving beyond silly games, to five tangible things you can do to motivate your whole team.

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The Mid Year Performance Review

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss why you’d bother with a Mid-Year review, and how it’s different than a regular Performance Review.  Also learn how to manage the mid-year performance review discussion to ensure it’s effective.

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Performance Management – How To Set Goals & Objectives

Join Jed and Bob as they talk about the Performance Management process, and more specifically about Setting Goals and Objectives.  How do you cascade them up and down the hierarchy?  Find out this week.

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Service KPIs: Measuring the Unmeasureables

How do you got about measuring those things that are more elusive than counting the output of your Widget Factory?  Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how to tackle this common problem.

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Progressive Discipline

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss why and how progressive discipline should be undertaken in an organization.

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Building Key Performance Measures

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss David Parmenter’s work on building good Key Performance Indicators, and how KPIs are different from other measures that are currently in use in many organizations.

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Why HR Often Sucks

Top 10 reasons why HR often sucks… and what you can do to begin to fix it.

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Top 10 Manager Challenges (Part A)

Of the top 10 things that make managers crazy, the first five all involve some kind of conflict.

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SMART Goals Are Dumb

You already know what SMART goals are – find out about HARD goals and how they can help you achieve more.

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Corporate Culture

What can you do if you’re looking to change or strengthen your corporate culture?

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