http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978 The latest quality free reprint articles from Shona Garner at SubmitYOURArticle.com Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:15:12 +0000 If you’d love a team where people actually ask for feedback, take more individual responsibility for their performance and associate feedback with helpful emotions rather than unhelpful, then it starts by setting the example of how you want things to be. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/management-108167.php Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:13 +0000 As a practising manager myself, as well as a trainer and coach for other managers, losing even one good member of staff represents not just forking out a considerable sum of money to advertise, recruit and train any new staff, but a considerable amount of time and hassle for me, whilst I try to keep my eyes on the ball in terms of sales and customer satisfaction. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/confident-manager-108741.php Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:05 +0000 Those of you who have known me a while, and certainly for those of you who have attended my workshops on how to effectively motivate and engage your staff, you’ll know I believe there are some simple rules and simple techniques that are absolutely critical to more effectively motivating and engaging our staff. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/challenges-108163.php Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:03:49 +0000 For the new manager, being thrust into suddenly having responsibility for achieving through others can feel daunting, intimidating or overwhelming. (Particularly when some of those “others” may be people you used to work alongside). http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/challenges-96165.php Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:23:32 +0000 “How do I criticise someone’s performance without de-motivating them or harming the relationship I have with them?” Whether you have been managing for 6 days, 6 months or 16 years this may still be something you shy away from, feel uncomfortable about, or hate doing. In the category of “tricky conversations” this is, undoubtedly, in the top ten! http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/chain-reaction-96163.php Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:23:07 +0000 Have you ever managed someone who you felt was in the wrong job? What sort of problems did that cause for you? What sort of problems do you think the “miscast” individual was experiencing? http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/chain-reaction-87109.php Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:16:09 +0000 Even in good times a manager needs to maintain engagement and minimise complacency. When business is slow, or there's lots of internal change and pressure, a manager needs to know how to respond and work with their team in such a way as to keep people on board. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/challenges-82896.php Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:51:26 +0000 Some of the most exciting and robust research of the last three decades I believe has come from Gallup, who have made it their focus to study excellence in organisations; where it exists; how it manifests and what we can learn from it. After years of research and study into peak performance some interesting ideas have emerged which perhaps challenge some of our perceptions and beliefs about human talent and ability. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/employees-82899.php Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:39:08 +0000 High performing companies do believe in agreeing values and behaviours; there’s often much time spent deliberating and agreeing what those standards are going to be; and even much time and energy into finding ways of communicating this across the whole organisation – which is great. You’re defining your corporate culture. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/Management-73881.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:33:18 +0000 We all do it sometimes: when we are under pressure we can often feel frustrated, upset, annoyed or some other such negative emotion. As a result, we may say or do things in a way which have a negative impact on others. http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Shona-Garner-3978/management-skills-70536.php Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:07:01 +0000