Following on from a general overview of managing performance issues in the workplace and the crucial role of management, here are my practical tips for line managers dealing with a performance issue: Explain the shortfall(s) in an honest discussion with your member of staff. Stick to the facts. Carefully consider the employee’s perception of [...]
Performance issue? It’s an HR problem, right? Wrong! The management of a poorly performing member of staff is something that anyone with supervisory or management responsibilities should be fully au fait with. As well as ensuring the fundamentals are addressed (identifying the issue, considering whether the company has done all it can to support [...]
You employ “working mums” on a part-time basis…tick! You have a flexi-time arrangement…tick! You even allow working from home on occasion. But how open is your business to true flexibility for your people, allowing them a life around work? Do you panic at the thought of a formal flexible working request? Feel it might [...]
Deep Dive, anyone? Drawing on many years working as an in-house HR professional as well as sitting on Employment Tribunals, it is clear that ‘HR speak’ (the various acronyms, jargon etc. that we HR professionals seem to love) is on the rise. It seems to me that this type of speak often alienates HR [...]
