Managing Employees

Whether it’s a companywide or department change, you still have to motivate your team to understand, participate and accept the required changes.  In order to motivate your staff, you need to plan…plan…plan.    What do you need to plan?

Understand what needs to change.   Describe in detail the issues and include your key staff as part of […]

As I said before, assume that people will always react to change…good or bad.  It doesn’t matter if the change is major or if it’s a minor change to a process.  People react!    So how do you as a Manager handle your team’s reaction to a change.
Before you can evaluate your team’s reactions, you first […]

Starting the process of change can be exciting and daunting at the same time. 
When we become conscious of something not working, our initial reaction may be to ignore it or to try to incorporate the change right away.  Lasting change takes time to organize and communicate to everyone.  
Change occurs at the individual level.   Yes, you […]

The word “change” provokes many different emotions…from excitement to fear and in between.  Change is ongoing within an organization, so why not become knowledgeable on how to manage change within your team and yourself.
Mirriam-Webster Online states: “Change” is:

to give a different position, course, or direction to 
to replace with another 
to make a shift from one to […]