Business Coaching

9 Common Hiring Mistakes For New Employees

A great general rules to remember when hiring new employees and team members is to "hire slow and fire fast".

Sadly the reverse often happens - hiring fast and firing slow - and that is a recipe for disaster.

I found an excellent article on Profile Globals by Peter Watson on the 9 Most Common Hiring Mistakes (And What To Do To Avoid Them)

The link to the full article is below but I want to just summarise these 9 points:

What Is A Leader? What is The Definition Of Leadership?

I am currently updating my coaching notes and training for Pillar 7 of the Eight Pillars of Business Prosperity, Leading Your Team and thought I should answer the questions:

"What is a leader?"

"What is leadership?"

It sounds silly but for all the studies into leadership, the traits of being a leader and how you can become a better leader, there doesn't seem to be any agreed definition of the basics.

Criticisms Of The One Minute Manager

One of my favourite books for managing people is "The One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (see my One Minute Manager Review) but I am aware that some people are critical of the approach.

As I am currently updating my notes and training on Pillar 7 of the Eight Pillars of Business Prosperity which focuses on leading your team, it makes sense to take a critical look at the One Minute Manager and see whether the criticisms are valid.

Leading Teams - 10 Ways To Do It Better

I have been aware that on my Business Coaching Blog, I haven't been writing enough about the entire issues of leading teams, managing people and all the soft skills that can be so important in success. So I am pleased to say that I will be featuring more guest articles from business and management coach Martin Haworth as his article on How To Build Rapport has been very popular.

What better way to increase the articles on the blog about leading teams than to start with

Leadership - Ten Ways To Be Better At Leading Teams

Leadership is a fascinating art. A balance between getting things done and having enough about you to maximize both the motivation and engagement of all of your people for now and the future.

UK Employment Law Changes

I avoid employment law issues - I know nothing - but I was listening to a chat show last night about the new flexibility working rules in the UK where anyone with a child sixteen or under can ask for flexible working.

Take a look at this newsletter which Tracy Hudson of HR Dept sent me.

It's always best to consult the experts on these compliance issues

How To Hire Smart

In my best magpie traditional of bringing you quality content from other sources, today I have "How to Hire Smart To Grow Your Business" from Shama.TV.

Star of Shama.TV is Shama Hyder, a rising internet marketing guru with her own special charm and personality who specialises in social media marketing.

Best Leadership Blogs

When you start a blog, the first thing you want is traffic.

After al there is little point in writing if no one is reading it - and in my experience you always want more traffic.

But the reading is not enough, you want to engage with your readers by people leaving comments that add to the debate or recognise your efforts. Not the spam nonsense that is so common but comments that add value.

Finally you want recognition from other bloggers.

That can come in two sources.

Customer Service: It's Not My Job

I have just wasted time dropping my car off to be serviced due to the classic problem of "it's not my job".

When I arrived, I was third in the queue for the service desk and both people in front of me had lengthy queries. All I needed to do was to drop my keys off and sign a pre-printed service form.

Managing Your Team - Eben Pagan Videos

A man I'm paying a lot of attention to at the moment and has crept into many of my thoughts is Eben Pagan. Because I'm on his Wake Up Productive time management program at the moment, I seem to start the day thinking of Eben.

I found these videos of Eben being interviewed by Joe Polish about managing your team and hiring tips on YouTube so I thought they were well worth bringing to your attention.

Eben Pagan Hiring Tips Video 1 - The Way Teams Work

Employee Underperformance

The eighth mistake in managing your team is tolerating employee under-performance or a bad attitude.

A high performance business knows which employees are delivering and which are failing.

Those not performing to your expectations need to be told quickly that their performance is not good enough.