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Yearly Archives: 2012
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People Puzzles goes back to school
by Deborah Simpson On Wednesday 21st November I joined a number of other business people to support Farnham Heath End Comprehensive School with their Business Back to School day. Year 10 students (aged 14 & 15) had prepared for the day … Continue reading
How giving timely feedback can help to reduce your workload
One of the things that business owners and managers complain the most about these days is the lack of time they have. It’s hard, when you’re responsible for something, to let it go, and delegation is one of the most … Continue reading
Tagged feedback, staff, staff development, training
7 top tips for giving feedback to employees
Being able to effectively give feedback to employees is incredibly important: by giving feedback well, you encourage employee satisfaction and growth, ensure that tasks are performed effectively, and save yourself as the employer more time. Give feedback badly and you … Continue reading
5 things management can do to ease employee stress
Stress in the workplace can be a big problem. It’s also ranked artificially low on the list of management priorities, as stress as an illness can be difficult to quantify. Stressed people don’t often sound or look unwell. However, as … Continue reading
Tagged employee satisfaction, management, stress
HR Consultant & Business Development vacancy
Do you enjoy networking and making sales? Are you keen to help develop new business and work with a small entrepreneurial company? Do you understand HR and think you can explain it to business owners?
October 2012 Legislation Updates
Every year, April and October bring new legislative updates. Happily, this October there are only a couple of things to note, and we’ve brought them to you here in nice, easy to chew morsels!
The 5 Ws of running a good meeting
We’ve been in our fair share of long (and slightly dull) meetings, and a lot of our clients complain that they spend ‘too much time in meetings’. Whether it is a staff meeting, a client meeting or a one-to-one, our … Continue reading
Sickness on holiday and holiday during sickness
A couple of recent rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on sickness while on holiday have thrown a small spanner in the works of many companies’ leave policies. On 21st June this year, an ECJ ruling found that … Continue reading
The cold compress for your statutory leave headaches
With this year’s amazing summer of sport, annual leave has been a hot topic amongst our clients. We spent so much of the early part of this year helping our clients with policies to manage their staff leave so that … Continue reading
Tagged employment law, leave, policy, statutory leave
Better the devil you know?
We’ve said before that we feel employers are often on the back foot in the employer-employee relationship. It can be expensive, time-consuming and stressful to get rid of employees who are not working out. Sometimes, though, a weak employee is … Continue reading
