Human Resources is one of the essentials that make your business work. With YOUR specific issue in mind, select the area below that best fits. Note: Campaign, Skills Module or Leader's Briefings signup may be required for some articles Drill down to the article that provides the solution. The following articles give you valuable...
Find the best staff then get the most from them. With YOUR specific issue in mind, select the area below that best fits. Note: Campaign, Skills Module or Leader's Briefings signup may be required for some articles Drill down to the article that provides the solution. If your business is to grow to any...
In an organisation of any size that has been around for a while, your management organisation chart will most likely have a bad case of bloat. This 12Faces Menu article looks at how you can trim your management tree down to its former trim glory. Yellow Belt
Human Resources is one of the essentials that make your business work. Without people, it is most unlikely that your business will scale to any size. This is a collection of pearls of wisdom, about employing and getting the most from people, distilled from many sources. Yellow belt
Most people don't like change! As a business owner/manager, you probably have a much higher tolerance for the uncertainty of change than other staff. On the other hand, you can't change much just by yourself. And changes you do implement have a disconcerting tendency to revert back to the old method as...
Laurence J Peters in his book “The Peter Principle” (Peters & Hull, 1969) argues that people are likely to be promoted until they reach a point where they are unacceptably incompetent. At this point, they are unlikely to be promoted any further (at least in a well ordered organisation) because...
Northcote Parkinson, writing in 1955, semi humorously proposed his ‘law’ that “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”. This is very true. Staff will often take as much time as is available to them to work on a project even though that might mean unnecessary embellishments. Even good staff...