How To Retain Talents When You Can’t Give Them A Raise

The only way to keep employees in a company by recognizing their needs and responding to them.

This is “Before-The-Fact-Recognition” and creates sustainable motivation that will last even through a financial crisis – as opposed to “After-The-Fact-Recognition” which consists mainly of rewards (for achievements) and only gives short boosts of motivation (as long as the rewards keep coming).

If you give people a chance to grow, to be involved, if you make them feel valuable by giving them a chance to make a difference (to the company, their colleagues, your clients, etc.), if you ask them for their opinion, so they feel respected and important and if you openly communicate your concerns and that you do recognize their needs – then you’re creating a relationship (a psychological and emotional bond) with your employees that they won’t break just because someone offers them more money.

Not Smiling Is Not Professional :)

This comes straight from today’s newsletter of manager-tools.com. I agree 100% and have nothing to add… Smiling At Strangers I spend a lot of time in other company’s offices. And that means I walk up and down hallways, and make eye contact with people I don’t know. I’ve been doing this for 20+ years, and [...]

Why can’t everyone behave normally, … like me?

Workshop on Personality Types “for busy people”. In only two hours you will learn how to recognize people’s different behavioural styles and how to deal with each one differently in order to improve your communication and relationships with them – be it your boss, your client or your spouse. ….What you will gain from this [...]

This Is the Simple Key To Employee Engagement

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. [Albert Einstein] Employer Engagement and Line Manager Engagement lead to Employee Engagement. It’s a perfect example for a 200% relationship, where each party always gives 100% to support the other party – regardless if the other party is able to reciprocate at the same [...]

Are You Judging Behavior or Intention?

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. To overcome conflict, or even avoid conflict completely, look beyond the other person’s BEHAVIOR to see their positive INTENTION. Think about this if you are a manager judging your employees an employee judging your manager an employee judging your peers a business partner judging [...]

SMILE :) …For Sustainable Engagement

Many people forget that they are still communicating when they think they’re “on a break”. Within the past week I’ve witnessed three different people who forgot, and noticed the impact it was having on their audience. One of those three people was Ed Kowalczyk, the frontman of the band Live, who was in town to [...]

Respect! Part #2

If your team does not respect you, it’s time for some self-observation!

Respect! Part #1

Don’t do anything to your direct reports, that you wouldn’t do to your boss!