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How To Manage Performance & Get The Best From Your Employees

The ultimate goal of any employer or manager is to get the best from their employees. High performing employees are what make or break a business. To have high performing employees, they need to 1) be motivated and 2) rewarded for their hard work. Rewards...

Published 26 Jul 2011 10:19 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: HR Software, Performance Management
Is Gamification the Next Step for Employee Engagement?

Using gaming theory is something that we've all come across in the development space. Games like the " Beer Distribution " game and the lean "envelope" are staples of the creative change programme. The word " gamification...

Published 23 Jul 2011 9:24 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Creative, Games, Social Media
Game Changers for Presenters/Pitchers

You would have thought that by now most people would understand that if you are pitching or presenting the quality of your performance is massively impacted by the amount of rehearsal that you do. In this excellent reminder presentation by @PresentorMentor...

Published 20 Jul 2011 9:40 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Presentation Skills, Change, Pitching
Critical Questions and Solutions For HR Professionals

Hr transformation - key questions and solutions july 2011 View more presentations from Scott McArthur Read More...

Published 19 Jul 2011 11:45 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: HR, Business, HR Transformation
Never Forget the Hill on Sales Leadership

In his classic book, "Think and Grow Rich", Napoleon Hill discussed the eleven secrets of leadership. Recently, whilst designing a retreat for sales executives, it occurred to me that the attributes of strong leadership and effective selling...

Published 18 Jul 2011 2:58 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Change, Leadership, Carnival of HR, Sales Leadership
Employers Still Not Listening

A new report, by Monster, shows only a quarter of employees feel their opinions matter at work; others have their opinions rejected or just not taken into account. Just over a quarter of respondents (27%) said their opinions are listened to and seriously...

Published 15 Jul 2011 11:41 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Communications, HR, Employee Engagement
Turning Your Group Into a Team

Perhaps the most common question I am asked by my clients is, "how do we increase productivity?". There are numerous answers to this (leaning processes, technologu enabelemt etc) but for me the critical answer is all about the social dynamics...

Published 13 Jul 2011 7:55 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Change, Performance, teams, Human Dynamics. HR
Do Not Leave Success of Downsizing to Chance

I’ve spent much of the past six months working with the British National Health Service (the NHS). Our activity has been focused on workforce and process efficiency, that being the downsizing of numbers of management grades and the “leaning” of flows...

Published 8 Jul 2011 12:06 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0
Lack of Empowerment - "The" Employee Engagement Waste?

I was reflecting on why one of my client organisations seems to stand out from the rest this morning. Turns out there are a number of reasons, but one thing is dramatically different about how they operate. They have, in place, real empowerment where...

Published 7 Jul 2011 3:04 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Change, Employee Engagement, Trust
What Happens When the Brakes Fall Off?

I had an interesting meeting with one of the board members of the British Bobsleigh team today (Scott Allaway, Commercial Director). We were chewing the fat about the art of the possible and got round to talking about how we deal with failure in our respective...

Published 6 Jul 2011 12:07 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Business, Performance, Personal Effectiveness

July 2011 - Scott McArthur

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How To Manage Performance & Get The Best From Your Employees

Is Gamification the Next Step for Employee Engagement?

Game Changers for Presenters/Pitchers

Critical Questions and Solutions For HR Professionals

Never Forget the Hill on Sales Leadership

Employers Still Not Listening

Turning Your Group Into a Team

Do Not Leave Success of Downsizing to Chance

Lack of Empowerment - "The" Employee Engagement Waste?

What Happens When the Brakes Fall Off?