Motivating and Rewarding your team Archives

Year-End Burnout Survival Guide: Tips for Managers to Keep Teams Motivated and Healthy

Are your team feeling the weight of a long and demanding year? Balancing projects, meeting deadlines, and managing personal commitments can lead to significant exhaustion, stress, and even burnout. While some level of fatigue is common, unmanaged burnout can Read more

Empowering Growth: Challenging Your Team to Reach New Heights

In today’s fast-paced professional world, continuous growth and development are not just desirable—they are essential. Regardless of skill level, everyone on your team should have opportunities to learn and grow. But when was the last time you motivated, engaged, Read more

3 Powerful, Simple, and Effective Ways to Motivate Your Team This Month

As leaders, we know that a motivated team is a productive team. However, finding the right strategies to keep your team inspired and driven can sometimes be challenging. Fortunately, there are straightforward and powerful methods you can implement this Read more

Surviving the Festive Frenzy: An HR Guide for Terrified Managers

‘Tis the season to be… absolutely terrified of HR mishaps? For managers, the Christmas period can be like walking through a winter wonderland filled with potential pitfalls. Parties, presents, and planning — oh my! Before you start imagining the Read more

Why are we feeling the pinch at the moment? Unrested workers, conflict and burnt out colleagues post-COVID EXPLAINED

There is clearly something in the air at the moment as we are seeing more unrest, exhaustion, short fuses, lack of accountability and quick to blame behaviour causing significant conflict in workplaces across all levels.

The ‘Work from Home’ Read more

“Treat people not how you want to be treated, but how they want to be treated.” Are you rewarding staff in the wrong way? What people ACTUALLY want

So you think you’re doing all of the right things.

You pay your staff really well. You provide an office space that is light and airy, with generous unlimited coffees and amenities. You provide more than enough flexibility (especially Read more

“My leader doesn’t talk to me and now I’m leaving.” The art of connection — how to prevent mass walkouts and disengaged staff

When it comes to disengaged workplaces and staff exits, a factor often overlooked is authentic, purposeful connection. 75% of people who voluntarily leave an organisation state they are leaving because of their boss — with the majority of Read more

People aren’t performing? Here’s five reasons why and what you can do about it

Are you noticing that people in your organisation aren’t performing as well as they used to? It can be frustrating trying to figure out why this might be happening and what you can do about it. This blog post Read more

Have a recognition program in place.

Simon Sinek once said “There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”

Creating an incentive plan for your company can benefit you and your team. It’s a double edged Read more

Do you know what your employees want?

I recently had a client share a story (that is oh, so familiar!) about one of her new staff members raise in a team meeting that he didn’t feel valued by the Read more