Dealing with High Maintenance Employees
High maintenance employees sap all the energy from team and upper management. Here are some examples of the breed and suggestions for resolution of the problem.
Posts Tagged ‘human resources’
Misplaced Loyalty
Loyalty to your employees is admirable, particularly when they’ve served the company well. But what happens when their performance slips? Do you have the toughness to put company loyalty first?
Recruiting the Right Executives
One of the CEO’s most important tasks is recruiting and maintaining an all-star top team. Here are my key strategies for finding the right executives to move your company forward.
Eager and Able Leadership Team Essential
Do you have capable managers on your top team? That won’t be enough. Managers like/need to be told what to do. Leaders (executives) create momentum on their own, making decisions as needed to achieve an objective. Collecting and growing an excellent leadership team is one of the most critical aspects of a CEO’s job.
Heaping on the Work – But Will Your Team Keep Up?
Can your team keep up if you ask them to tackle new challenges without giving them new resources to offload other tasks? Here are the key steps to moving a team through a detailed, integrated project planning process.
Encouraging Hidden Leaders
Hidden leaders can appear anywhere in your life, whether business or personal. Here’s a story of one person who might have been low on the social ladder, but who touched people’s hearts in a big way.
Rejuvenating Fatigued Leadership Teams
Team fatigue doesn’t just happen in economic downturns. Many businesses face this even in good times. When objectives are missed and the going becomes tough and slow, how do we get our team to charge ahead?
Attracting and Retaining the Optimal Team – Hanson Bridgett
How can you make your workplace different in a way that will attract the highly skilled people you need most? Andrew Giacomini, Managing Partner at Hanson Bridgett, shows how an enlightened approach to team culture makes a law firm stand out.
Robert Sher’s Performance Review Process
There are many ways to do this, and many points of view, but this is the process I use(d) in my company and find works quite well. View my presentation slides on this topic.
Code of Conduct for Relationships
In both my own company and several client companies, we’ve discussed, then written out a code of conduct to help set expectations about how we should treat each other. Some companies, especially young ones can be rough places to work. Letting the “roughnecks” run free will destroy the willingness of many other talented people to contribute at all, and many will leave.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).