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Human performance management Why not try before you buy? This Spring, let us have a look in your corporate kitchen, and talk to some key staff, and we'll present you with a SnapShot Performance Analysis report, outlining the areas where we think you can realize significant performance improvements, and with recommendations for the Top 5 QuickWin performance interventions. We'll send a performance analyst to work with your management team for a week, for a special flat rate of $1,500 - Offer valid from March 21 - June 21, 2006 Call us to schedule an initial meeting to define scope and book your SnapShot Performance Analysis. |
Assessments & Evaluations We work with a wide range of assessment tools and techniques, aimed at increasing your understanding of individual and team behaviour, and leveraging that understanding into improved performance, improved leadership skills, and improved recruitment success. E. Hamer Associates, Ltd. Ltd is the sole licensee for Dr. Meredith Belbin's suite of assessment tools known as e-Interplace(R), which is based on his Team Role Theory. To learn more about Team Role Theory and its applications in Organizational Development, register as a member on our Log in page, and then go to the Members Area to download the White Paper: Making Better Matches: A Team Role Primer. |
Latest Performance Pointer 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?
Federally funded performance training for small businesses • Are you looking for customized, in-house, performance improvement training and development for your employees – but have no budget?
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.
Managing The Change Most Forget Change management is a well-used term, bandied about whenever a new system is about to be introduced. Well-used, but poorly understood. “You need to sharpen your change management skills” managers are told, and sometimes even “We’re bringing in a change management expert.” And “We need a change management plan”.
It is encouraging that the topic of managing change comes up in these discussions at all. What kind of change? Well, for instance - introducing any kind of enterprise-wide technology solution, such as large-scale ERP software, or new and sophisticated Financial Management Systems. The unfortunate reality is that when senior (IT) management, or the system’s vendor, for that matter, talks about “Change Management”, they actually mean “Change Scheduling”. While Change Scheduling is important, it covers only the “what and when” and seldom the “how”. Allow me to explain.
The rationale for executive coaching Sometimes, a simple, low-tech performance initiative goes horribly wrong, perhaps because the concepts were poorly understood, or the goals were not defined clearly. Mostly, however, because the individual tasked with implementation received little or no support on how to achieve different results. And under those circumstances, it’s really easy to shoot yourself in the foot—almost inevitable. What was the case? During his performance review, a line manager was encouraged to involve his staff in generating ideas for productivity gains. He didn’t take much convincing. In fact, one of his pet peeves about his team was that nobody ever came up with good ideas. With a new sense of purpose, the line manager opened the next department meeting with enthusiasm, and asked his team to come up with ideas about improving customer service. After a brief pause, with the staff all looking at one another to see who would go first, one brave soul raised his hand, and made a suggestion. The line-manager’s reaction? "Tom, that’s a great idea. Why don’t you do some research and write up a proposal, and I’ll see it on my desk by the end of the week, okay?” With that, the line manager closed the meeting, and everyone went back to work. Read more...If You'd Only Known One of the most common experiences among first-time managers is the sinking feeling of never going to be any good at this thing called management. If only they’d told you ahead of time what it would be like, you may very well have declined the honour ... How can anything be so frustrating, and how can anyone get anything done if you’re in meetings with your people all the time? The answer is simple; not easy, just simple. You’re no longer supposed to get things done (yourself). Let me qualify that statement: The things you’re supposed to get done are very, very different from what you used to do, before you became a manager. Read more... |
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