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The top 4 reasons your job ad isn't attracting the right (or even any!) candidates

09.02.2024

While there are many reasons people may not be applying for your job, if your job ad isn’t written to attract the right person in the first place, you’re facing an uphill battle before you’ve even started. Here are four reasons your job ad may be under-performing and what to do about them.

Tackling tough conversations with the G.R.O.W. framework

29.12.2022

Here's a great framework for having those tough conversations you need to have with staff who are under-performing.

People are a company’s biggest expense

22.06.2020

The average company spends 64% of its total expenditure on its employees.

What are you tolerating?

24.02.2020

The price you pay for tolerating poor behaviour is a massive loss of respect; loss of respect from your staff, from your peers, from your superiors (if you have them) and even from your customers and suppliers.  

What are you ignoring?

17.02.2020

Ignorance is bliss, they say…until it has a direct impact on your results and your revenue.

What are you modelling?

10.02.2020

You can tell your staff, until you’re blue in the face, to do what you say…but, I can tell you right now, they won’t change. They’ll continue to do what you do: because you’re sending them mixed signals.

The real reason employees don’t live up to expectations

03.02.2020

Is it unreasonable to expect people to do a good job? To care about the quality of their work? To treat the place like it was their own? What happened to having pride in your work?

What are you enabling?

30.01.2020

If you’ve got behaviour in your workplace that you don’t like, it’ll be because of YOU. As leaders, we often enable poor behaviour by our very own behaviour. 

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