Posts by PaulaM
Are you making your leadership too personal?
As entrepreneurs, we are often trying to juggle all the things to ensure our business is running in top gear – and this includes making sure our team is happy. Sometimes we focus so much on ensuring our team is highly engaged that it can actually be to our – and their – detriment. Not sure…
Read MoreTired of mistakes? Ask, don’t tell.
A constant challenge I hear from my clients, is how to get their team tracking to their goals and stop having to fix their mistakes. If you feel like this, don’t worry, it’s totally normal! This is a challenge all successful, highly capable entrepreneurs experience when managing their team. So, let me introduce you to…
Read MoreWhy Every Team Member Needs Goals & Key Performance Indicators
It’s a common question (or objection) that I discuss with many clients and prospects… “Goals & KPI’s….Really? Are they really necessary? But we are only a small business? But it’s just me and a few others, everyone knows what they need to do”. My response? YES. It’s that simple. Every single person who is on…
Read MoreMy Top 10 Tips For Having THAT Difficult Conversation With Your Team Member (that you are probably trying to avoid)
A common challenge we all face is how to have a difficult conversation with a team member. You know “that” conversation you’re dreading? It may be over something that has been brewing for a while, or it may simply be that you don’t know how to address something that recently came up… or perhaps you…
Read More7 signs its time to hire in your business
I often get asked 👉 When is the Right Time to start to hire a team? And if I’m honest, many of the people I speak to – typically leave it until they are stressed, overwhelmed, over loaded, too busy and well feeling a bit desperate. If that’s you, don’t worry – that’s totally normal, but it’s…
Read MoreTaking the time to Plan
It’s been a while since I haven’t had so many urgent things to do that my to-do list that I have had to just ‘do’, and do it ‘as fast as I can’, rather than think about what to do and how to do it. So this week feels a bit different, and it’s Tuesday…
Read MoreThe Secret to Motivating Employees?
I read an interesting Harvard Business Review Article this morning by Frederick Herzberg titled ‘How do you Motivate Employees’ . As a business owner and a coach to many clients with large numbers of employees, fighting to reduce employee turnover, it’s certainly a relevant topic and ongoing challenge for most people I speak to on…
Read MoreShould we FORGIVE our work colleagues like we do our FAMILIES?
I’m reading Business Stripped Bare which is one of Branson’s books published in 2008 and he talks about the concept of ‘family’ within business. It’s a concept I am familiar with, having being associated with the Flight Centre Group for a number of years, and seeing first hand their strong belief in Family/Village/Tribe. Branson talks…
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