The Most Dangerous Resignation Happens in Silence There is a moment inside every organisation that never appears in performance reports, never gets raised in meetings, and never triggers alarm bells from management, yet it quietly changes everything that follows. It is the moment your best employee stops caring, not resigns, or burns out publicly, storms…
Employee Retention Strategies
When an Employee Stops Caring: The Leadership Failure Nobody Sees Coming
There is a moment in every organisation that rarely gets recognised for what it is. It does not arrive with a performance warning or a resignation letter, and it certainly does not announce itself in a way that demands attention. In many cases, it looks like the opposite of a problem. Work continues, deadlines are…
Employee Re-Engagement
Employee re-engagement (make them happy) is not difficult once you recognise it is required. As a director, you may need to re-organise management because we all know that “People leave managers, not jobs”. Having looked at various companies and advised them on engagement, most of the time, it has been due to bad managers. Once…
Bad Management and Office Assassins – A reason to be self-employed
Bad Managers, Bad management and office assassins? It sounds like Game of Thrones! To be honest, I believe every company in the west is like this. You have your different sections, the self-imposed leaders and their loyal assassins. I left the British RAF in 2001. It was my first job and had been from the…
Employee Engagement – Another reason to be self-employed.
So, I decided this week to do an article on employee engagement as a part 2 article to “Bad Management and Office Assassins.” If you ask a lot of managers how they engage their workforce, they will look at you as though you just took a dump on their office desk. Why? Because they think…