Managing Employees

Smashing the clock at BestBuy.com….wow…read this article.  Is your work environment anything like what is happening at BestBuy?  May be your business can’t operate the exact way, but how open are you to creating the necessary flexibility that fits your business.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_50/b4013001.htm
In reading this article, I learned an innovative and effective way to managing employees.  What […]

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 […]

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 […]