Category Archives: Management and Leadership Development



Retain, Retain, Retain – but be careful of the ones you should let go!

‘Modern times demand modern solutions’ could be a working philosophy for managers today. In many ways that is true, but then you also need to ensure that you ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’. Which bit of ‘management speak’ do you choose to believe and live by? Continue reading

Management and Leadership Development, Staff Retention


Leadership

The long running debates between the ‘true born’ and the ‘nurturists’ around just how leaders are created has rumbled on far too long. This writer’s view is very simple – children are born with lots of potential, none of which will reach its peak if it is not developed. Continue reading

Management and Leadership Development


Appraisal Anyone?

As we go into the latter half of the third quarter of the year, HR departments are gearing up ready for that annual jamboree know as the roll-out of the performance appraisal system. Most are timed to coincide with the pre-Christmas period and all of them generate emotions like no other management system ever invented. Continue reading

Management and Leadership Development, Staff Appraisals