Managing Employees

Are you comfortable giving feedback to your employees?   My experience has been that managers are not skilled at giving effective feedback to their staff. 
I’ve been in the same situation…not sure how to share my evaluation in a way that keeps them motivated…and still set the stage for change.   It’s easy when the employee is a […]

The year is ending and most companies are evaluating the year’s results and ramping up for the new year…new business plans and new budgets.  The new year is also a time when many companies start organizing their yearly performance review process.  
As a HR professional, I’ve heard the groans whenever I mention “performance reviews” and I […]

To be successful in managing employees you have to build a repertoire of skills to motivate employees.  Creating a strong working relationship with your team members occurs when you increase trust with each member of your team.  A team is a group of people, each one influencing the effectiveness of the whole.  A team is […]

You have done all the important steps to drive change in your department:

Reviewed what needs to change – brainstormed and created a project plan
Captured potential reactions to the change – this way you can organize how to communicate the change
Plan the Changes – developed the rollout steps
Communication of the change(s) – created a project plan […]

Do you ever find yourself confused on how to best communicate changes to your employees?    Here is where you need to do some serious brainstorming.  Why?  Because it takes a lot of communication to make a change successful.
As soon as you know that you will be creating change in your department, you must communicate to […]