How to do Change Management for Profit
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 soon as you focus on […]
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
Redundancy Planning
Reducing the staff head count in a business is never a pleasant task – on either side of the desk. However, it is often a fact of life in business. Down-sizing Staff is a very emotionally charged activity and requires a good understanding of the relevant legislation so that you do not find yourself in […]
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
What Parkinson’s Law Tells Us about Wasted Work
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 do this because they want to seem to be busy and not slacking off. You have to learn how to judge been useful work and time-filling work. Yellow Belt
How to do Redundancy Planning
Reducing the staff head count in a business is never a pleasant task – on either side of the desk. However, it is often a fact of life in business. This article distills out some of the business wisdom on Redundancy Planning. Yellow Belt