This Blog’s written for people in one of three groups.
- You own or manage a small-medium business. You employ between 5-100 people, although it’s likely you’ll have between 10 and 50 employees. You don’t employ a full time Human Resource specialist. If you need advice you speak to your accountant, your partner, colleagues, other business managers or your father-in-law who ran a business for 35 years before he retired.
- You’re a division or branch manager in a larger business. You “run your own show” to a large extent. Provided you’re profitable and successful, head office doesn’t interfere. You have contacts within the company to discuss people issues with.
- Finally, you may be a Human Resource specialist. If so, you’re always looking for “cutting edge” HR practices that enable you to provide a better service to your fellow managers.
Whatever your situation you realize that
- Without totally committed staff, your business will not prosper.
- It’s your job to gain that commitment.
- Lots of conventional wisdoms and HR practices in large companies don’t seem to work very well for you. They’re too rigid, too bureaucratic and too time consuming.
- You need to manage, lead and develop your employees using techniques that work well and easily in a small-medium business.
- Only when most of the routine work in your business is being handled successfully by your staff, will you be able to get on with your job: managing, developing and growing your business.
One Other Thing ….
You should know that my approach to staff performance improvement is far from conventional. Among other things, I believe that
- The team, not the individual, is the basic human unit in the workplace
- Written applications and resumes are the single greatest cause of poor staff selection decisions
- Of itself, training won’t solve staff performance problems
- Staff performance appraisal is the responsibility of individual staff, not managers
- If your systems are poor, your employees will fail
- Effective face to face communication is the core management skill.
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Thanks for your time.
Leon Noone
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