Tag: Staff Performance

Staff performance is critical for the running of your business. Are you having trouble motivating your staff? Are you finding it difficult to know where to start? This group of articles covers staff evaluation; remuneration; bonus plans and incentives. In addition, learn about the Peter Principle, it is fascinating. Has your business been around for a while? Then it is time to look at your organisation chart. There is a great possibility that it is suffering a bad case of bloat. Perhaps, your staff performance is being affected by others who are not performing at their peak. On the other hand, company takeovers and mergers can increase your staffing levels if not adjusted.

Why Multitasking is Not Your Friend

Multitasking means doing several things at once. Individuals and leaders sometimes think this is a good thing because you are “busy”. However, it can be clearly demonstrated that multitasking is an inefficient process that can contribute to waste in any business. Learn more about the problems with multitasking and their solutions. Yellow Belt Table of Contents […]

Secrets to Staff Bonus Plans

Paying staff a bonus or other incentive is a well tested method of improving their commitment to the business’ management goals. The secrets of the Staff Bonus Plans are revealed below. Read this if: you want to know more about how bonuses should be constructed to drive the goals of the business. Many bonus systems are […]

Secrets to Streamlining Organisation Charts

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

How to Do Staff Bonus Plans

Paying staff a bonus or other incentive is a well tested method of improving their commitment to the business’s management goals. How to Do Staff Bonus Plans examines ways of doing this that have worked in practice. Yellow Belt

Peter Principle: Promotion to Incompetency

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 they are no longer competent and so remain at that level indefinitely. The great worry about this is that they are incompetent at this level so the organisation is impacted by the presence of these incompetent people. Yellow Belt

Personal Development Tip bits

Remember the old saying “physician, heal thy self”. It means that before a doctor works on others, they should get their own life and health together. The same thing applies to working on your business. You are going to be the ‘main mover and shaker’ in your business so, just like playing a musical instrument, your business is only going to be as good as you are. Advancing your personal development is a key factor. Yellow Belt