Performance Pointers for Companies

Managers and The Performance Gap

Increasing the productivity of your team, raising the individual and overall performance levels, and keeping morale and motivation high, are the greatest challenges facing managers today. These challenges are the immediate consequence of the pervasive “do more with less” regimen most organizations - of necessity - live by.

What are the factors impacting team performance? How do you create an environment where your staff actually wants to do more, do better, be better?
Financial incentives, such as pay-for-performance, bonuses, and stock or options awards? A foos-ball table? Free coffee and soda? Pick-up and drop-off dry cleaning? Clear career paths? Discounts on company products or services? A voice at the table when decisions are made? What’s the key?

• Are you looking for customized, in-house, performance improvement training and development for your employees – but have no budget?
• Would your company benefit from a tailored employee training program, aligned to the priorities of your business?
• Would you be interested in government-funded employee learning and development, to be delivered by a qualified training provider?
• Does your business have less than 50 employees, and have you been in business for at least one year?

If you have answered yes to any one of these questions, we would like to talk with you about a no-cost-to-you employee training initiative, funded by the federal government, to help small business owners grow their company. Call us for an appointment at 604-317-2234.

The “Workplace Training for Innovation Program” is a new initiative administered by the BC Government, and funded by the Federal Government, to help small business employers improve their business performance through customized training for their employees.
The program provides employers with up to $5,000.00 in employee learning funds. The application must be submitted in partnership with a qualified training provider. We do all the legwork; your business and your employees benefit. Win-Win.

Career Pointers for People

That's right: 6 out of every 10 jobs were never advertised ... so how do people find them?

By now, most people know that “networking” is the way to get a mid-level to senior job these days. In fact, almost 60% of respondents to a large scale survey quoted “through contacts” as the way they’d landed their job—through business contacts, through family members, tipped by a friend or schoolmate, or recruited by someone who already worked there—in short, through a process of referrals.